Is io-pay.shop legit or a scam?
Six-day-old account-sales marketplace cloned across multiple .shop domains, selling stolen social-media accounts and Gmail addresses with zero legitimate business indicators.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Brand impersonation — not the real site
Domain was registered only 6 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
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MT Intelligence
The site operates as an automated storefront for selling pre-made social-media accounts, Gmail addresses with real-name verification, phone numbers, and follower-inflation services — all of which violate platform terms of service and are commonly used in phishing, spam, and credential-theft campaigns. The domain was registered only 6 days ago and carries no business registration, company address, phone number, or legitimate contact information anywhere on the page. Our network fingerprint detected this as a clone of an unknown template, with identical page titles and product listings appearing on at least three other .shop domains (as-pay.shop, df-pay.shop, ty-pay.shop), indicating a coordinated farm of disposable storefronts. The use of a privacy-protected registrar, the .shop TLD (common in fraud farms), and the complete absence of any business legitimacy signals all point to a short-lived operation designed to harvest payment and personal data before abandonment. The page impersonates Google branding on a non-official domain, further confirming fraudulent intent.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for io-pay.shop, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain io-pay.shop is only 6 days old.
- Site title and description promote sale of "全球成品号" (global finished/pre-made accounts), "刷粉平台" (fan/follower brushing/inflation platform), Telegram/TG business and protocol numbers, Google/Gmail real-name verified accounts, overseas account
- Page explicitly references Google accounts and real-name verification ("谷歌邮箱 实名账号").
- Multiple nearly identical clone sites exist with the same "v-mall全球成品号刷粉平台..." title (e.g. as-pay.shop, df-pay.shop, ty-pay.shop), indicating a common template used for automated digital goods stores offering instant delivery of accounts.
- Services like account selling, follower inflation, and bulk SMS verification codes are frequently associated with spam, fraud, phishing, and terms-of-service violations on platforms like Google, Telegram, and TikTok.
- No reviews, complaints, business registration, Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or Reddit mentions found for io-pay.shop or the exact v-mall template.
- No contact information, company address, or legitimacy indicators located in searches.
Page title and description exactly match multiple near-identical sites (as-pay.shop, df-pay.shop, ty-pay.shop) selling the same services; appears to be a templated storefront for account sales.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for io-pay.shop and did not find scam reports or complaints. However, our research identified multiple near-identical clone sites (as-pay.shop, df-pay.shop, ty-pay.shop) with the same page title, product listings, and service offerings, all registered within a similar timeframe on .shop domains. This clone-site pattern, combined with the 6-day domain age, zero business registration, and explicit sale of pre-made social-media accounts and Gmail addresses, strongly indicates a coordinated fraud operation. Services like account selling and follower inflation are frequently associated with phishing, spam, and terms-of-service violations on platforms like Google, Telegram, and TikTok.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://io-pay.shop/
- 2200https://io-pay.shop/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 scam-type patterns detected
3 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page claims to be Google.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Domain is 6 days old — very young for a shop.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
3 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page claims to be Google.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
- Domain is 6 days old — very young for a shop.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with io-pay.shop
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags io-pay.shop as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — io-pay.shop scored 8/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. io-pay.shop presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 83 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- io-pay.shop is 6 days old, registered on 6/5/2026 through GNAME.COM PTE. LTD.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report io-pay.shop as clean.
- No. io-pay.shop is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- io-pay.shop resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 11, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around io-pay.shop have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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