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Elle Charleston / Jennifer & John Charleston: a young Delaware-registered clothing shop whose customers report broken goods, a 10% keep-it refund and returns forced to China
This is a Shopify-style online clothing store selling dresses, shoes, bags and swimwear under the names Jennifer & John Charleston and Elle Charleston. Its own terms name a Delaware registered office at 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, while multiple consumer complaints say the goods actually ship from China and that returns must go back there at the buyer's expense. The domain is only 339 days old, and the complaints describe broken or inferior items, a 10% refund offered to keep the product, and review stars that are not backed by real customer reviews. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS, no meaningful hosting abuse — but that only means nothing malicious was detected, not that the shop is trustworthy. The score reflects a deceptive commercial operation rather than a malware threat.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
This is a Shopify-style online clothing store selling dresses, shoes, bags and swimwear under the names Jennifer & John Charleston and Elle Charleston. Its own terms name a Delaware registered office at 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, while multiple consumer complaints say the goods actually ship from China and that returns must go back there at the buyer's expense. The domain is only 339 days old, and the complaints describe broken or inferior items, a 10% refund offered to keep the product, and review stars that are not backed by real customer reviews. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS, no meaningful hosting abuse — but that only means nothing malicious was detected, not that the shop is trustworthy. The score reflects a deceptive commercial operation rather than a malware threat.
A Delaware address, a China return path, and repeated customer complaints
The site's own terms state that Elle Charleston is the commercial name of the company Elle Charleston and give a registered office at 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, Delaware. That is the only operator identity the site itself provides in the reviewed text; the site's contact details were not read in full, so nothing here should be read as the shop listing no contacts.
Against that Delaware address, a BBB Scam Tracker report says the company is based in China, that it will only refund 10% if you choose to return the product, and that it will not let you ship to the Delaware address — you must ship back to an address in China and pay the shipping yourself. A second BBB Scam Tracker report describes shoes arriving with a broken clasp and inferior quality, and the same return instruction: pay to ship to a warehouse in China, or accept a 10% refund and keep the item.
An independent review platform's review summary adds that most reviewers were let down by their experience overall, with significant dissatisfaction and some finding the website misleading about the company. A further BBB Scam Tracker report says the positive review stars shown on every item are not real customer reviews but simply a photo of stars.
Clean technical checks do not offset the commercial complaints
On the technical side, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. The hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across six saved reports. These are absence-of-detection results, not endorsements of the shop's business practices.
There is a small adverse technical signal: one antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious, and the aggregate shows one isolated detection across 93 engines with no vendor consensus. That is a weak flag on its own, but it is consistent with the operator-level complaints rather than contradicting them.
The domain is 339 days old, which is young for a shop that presents itself as an established clothing brand. Combined with the complaints about goods not matching the advertised images and returns being routed to China, the age supports treating this as a recently stood-up commercial operation rather than a long-standing retailer.
Why the score is 30
One antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious, with one isolated detection across 93 engines and no vendor consensus. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh result
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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What the captured page showed
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03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Elle Charleston
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
4 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01Elle Charleston is the commercial name of the company Elle Charleston. These Terms and Conditions regulate access to and use of the website https://elle-charleston.com (hereinafter, the Website) owned by Elle Charleston (hereinafter, Elle Charleston ), and registered office at 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, Delaware, 19901, Kent County, USA, as well as the services and products offered by Elle Charleston on its website.
- 02The registrable domain is 339 days old, which is young for a shop presenting itself as an established clothing brand.
- 032 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The company is based out of China, but their listed physical address is in Delaware. The company will only refund 10% if you choose to return the product, and…"
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens if you order and then try to return
A visitor who buys from this shop and then wants to send an item back is told, according to the complaints, that the return must go to a warehouse in China at the buyer's own shipping cost, and that the alternative is a 10% refund to keep the item. That is the concrete outcome described in the reports: the buyer absorbs the return cost or accepts a small fraction of what they paid.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The same reports describe the goods themselves as the trigger — shoes with a broken clasp and inferior quality, and items that do not match the advertised images. The review stars shown on product pages are described as a photo of stars rather than genuine customer reviews, so the on-site social proof does not reflect real buyer experience.
Do not order from this shop. The combination of a 339-day-old domain, a Delaware registered office that complaints say is not where returns go, and multiple consumer reports of broken or misrepresented goods with returns forced to China at the buyer's expense makes the risk of losing money or being stuck with an unusable item high. If you have already ordered, keep all order and shipping records, dispute the charge with your card issuer or payment provider rather than accepting the 10% keep-it offer, and treat the on-site review stars as unverified.
Web research findings
Independent findings for jenniferjohn-charleston.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
- BBB Scam Trackeropen
"The company is based out of China, but their listed physical address is in Delaware. The company will only refund 10% if you choose to return the product, and will not let you ship to their Delaware address. You must ship back to an address in China and pay for shipping."
- Trustpilotopen
"Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many customers expressed significant dissatisfaction with ... . Some reviewers also found the website misleading regarding the company's"
- BBB Scam Trackeropen
"The product (shoes) sent to me had a broken clasp and inferior quality. When trying to return the shoes, I'm informed I can only return and pay for shipping to a warehouse in China. I was offered a 10% refund if I just keep the shoes."
- BBB Scam Trackeropen
"I also realized after the fact that the reviews on every single item are not excessive by the actual customer before or after purchase so the positive “reviews” on there are not real. They only have stars that indicate there are positive reviews and that is just a photo of stars. (Not real reviews)"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainjenniferjohn-charleston.com
- Redirects tojenniferjohn-charleston.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencest.whop.tw · static-tracking.klaviyo.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 17, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 22, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
The site refused our redirect check, so the chain below is the one our page reader followed.
- 1301http://jenniferjohn-charleston.com/
- 2200https://jenniferjohn-charleston.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
One antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious, with one isolated detection across 93 engines and no vendor consensus.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The company is based out of China, but their listed physical address is in Delaware. The company will only refund 10% if you choose to return the product, and…" · Elle Charleston is the commercial name of the company Elle Charleston. These Terms and Conditions regulate access to and use of the website https://elle-charleston.com (hereinafter, the Website) owned by Elle Charleston (hereinafter, Elle Charleston ), and registered office at 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, Delaware, 19901, Kent County, USA, as well as the services and products offered by Elle Charleston on its website.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Oct 21, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Independent research | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 21, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Independent research
- Result4 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompleted
- FindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Elle Charleston / Jennifer & John Charleston: a young Delaware-registered clothing shop whose customers report broken goods, a 10% keep-it refund and returns forced to China
This is a Shopify-style online clothing store selling dresses, shoes, bags and swimwear under the names Jennifer & John Charleston and Elle Charleston. Its own terms name a Delaware registered office at 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, while multiple consumer complaints say the goods actually ship from China and that returns must go back there at the buyer's expense. The domain is only 339 days old, and the complaints describe broken or inferior items, a 10% refund offered to keep the product, and review stars that are not backed by real customer reviews. Technical checks are clean — no Safe Browsing warning, valid TLS, no meaningful hosting abuse — but that only means nothing malicious was detected, not that the shop is trustworthy. The score reflects a deceptive commercial operation rather than a malware threat.
09 · Community