Is kiauction.com safe?
http://kiauction.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Thirteen-day-old kiauction.com runs a generic storefront on a platform used by known fake-shop networks while the domain echoes a long-standing Indiana auction business.
kiauction.com presents itself as an online shop with a cart, "Shop Now" and "CHECK OUT" style commerce blocks, yet the domain was registered only 13 days ago and the storefront is served from spacegone.com, a platform tied to a known fake-shop network. The name closely matches the domain and phone number of Krueckeberg Auction & Realty, a licensed Indiana auctioneer that has used kiauction.com in its own advertising, but the current site shows none of that business's identity, address or phone number. Technical checks are clean — no malware detections, valid TLS, no Safe Browsing warning — but those only mean nothing malicious was served at scan time; they say nothing about who is behind the shop or whether goods would arrive.
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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.
Why 32/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe store runs on spacegone.com, a storefront platform used by a known fake-shop network, on a 13-day-old domain.-3 pts
- StrongSeveral fake-shop tells appear together on a 13-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, a fake-shop network platform.-3 pts
- ModerateThe store gives a generic service@ mailbox as its contact, a pattern repeated across fake-shop networks.-1 pts
What pushed the score up
- Supports0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 39 to 32 and split those 7 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
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- Change any password you entered
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- Report the site
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- Report the domain to its registrar
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
"Recovery" services or agents who contact you, or ask for a fee up front, are almost always a second scam aimed at victims. Your bank's dispute process and the official reporting services never charge a fee in advance.
Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
kiauction.com presents itself as an online shop with a cart, "Shop Now" and "CHECK OUT" style commerce blocks, yet the domain was registered only 13 days ago and the storefront is served from spacegone.com, a platform tied to a known fake-shop network. The name closely matches the domain and phone number of Krueckeberg Auction & Realty, a licensed Indiana auctioneer that has used kiauction.com in its own advertising, but the current site shows none of that business's identity, address or phone number. Technical checks are clean — no malware detections, valid TLS, no Safe Browsing warning — but those only mean nothing malicious was served at scan time; they say nothing about who is behind the shop or whether goods would arrive.
A brand-new storefront built on fake-shop infrastructure
The storefront is loaded from spacegone.com, a platform used by a known fake-shop network, and the registrable domain is only 13 days old. That combination — a fresh domain on a shared kit platform — is the standard build pattern for transient shops that appear, take orders, and disappear.
Multiple shell-store indicators appear together on this young domain: the fake-shop network platform plus a generic contact mailbox. The only contact the site offers is service@kiauction.com, a generic "service@" address of the kind repeated across fake-shop networks, and the captured page lists no phone number at all.
The visible commerce surface is generic: "Shop Now", "SHOP WITH CONFIDENCE", a "PAYMENT METHOD" block, and "View Full Details" links, with social icons pointing to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube. Nothing on the page identifies a real merchant, a company registration, or a physical address behind the checkout.
The domain name collides with a real, licensed auction business
Independent research ties kiauction.com to Krueckeberg Auction & Realty, a licensed and bonded Indiana auctioneer at 3501 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne, IN 46807, reachable at 260-724-7402 or 1-877-591-8756, with auctioneer Josh Krueckeberg (AU19800008). Newspaper advertising from that business explicitly told readers to visit kiauction.com to bid.
The site now sitting on that domain shows none of that identity: no company name, no Fort Wayne address, no phone number, and no auctioneer licence. Instead it is a generic goods storefront on a fake-shop platform. Whether the current operator is deliberately trading on the auctioneer's name or simply re-registered a lapsed domain, the effect on a visitor is the same — the name implies an established auction business that the page does not substantiate.
Clean technical checks do not make the shop trustworthy
The saved technical results are clean: zero malicious and zero suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed threat warning, and a valid encrypted connection. These mean the scan did not catch malware or a phishing block at that moment; they are not a statement about the merchant's honesty or about whether an order would be fulfilled.
The operator-side picture is what drives the score. A 13-day-old domain, a storefront platform used by a known fake-shop network, a generic service mailbox, no phone number, and a name that matches a real licensed auction business the page does not identify — that is a shop whose ownership and fulfilment cannot be verified from anything on the site.
Why the score is 32
The store runs on spacegone.com, a storefront platform used by a known fake-shop network, on a 13-day-old domain. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- 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
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- 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
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
kiauction
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
kiauction
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
kiauction
- Meta description
- The same text as the page title
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/page/custom/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/page/custom/return-refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/page/custom/shipping-informationRead
- Contact page/page/custom/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
kiauction
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 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.
Risk pattern correlation
Web research findings
Independent findings for kiauction.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.
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.
- Domainkiauction.com
- Redirects towww.kiauction.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencescdn.spacegone.com · static.spacegone.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 20, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 13 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 2, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
kiauction.com was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (service@kiauction.com).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 25 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for www.kiauction.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Site platform
- Shop platform assets from spacegone.com
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- PayPal
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://kiauction.com/
- 2302https://kiauction.com/
- 3200https://www.kiauction.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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store runs on spacegone.com, a storefront platform used by a known fake-shop network, on a 13-day-old domain. · Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 13-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, a fake-shop network platform.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 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.
Is kiauction.com a scam or a legit website?
Is kiauction.com safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to kiauction.com?
Can I get my money back from kiauction.com?
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Why does kiauction.com look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has kiauction.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is kiauction.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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Does kiauction.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Thirteen-day-old kiauction.com runs a generic storefront on a platform used by known fake-shop networks while the domain echoes a long-standing Indiana auction business.
kiauction.com presents itself as an online shop with a cart, "Shop Now" and "CHECK OUT" style commerce blocks, yet the domain was registered only 13 days ago and the storefront is served from spacegone.com, a platform tied to a known fake-shop network. The name closely matches the domain and phone number of Krueckeberg Auction & Realty, a licensed Indiana auctioneer that has used kiauction.com in its own advertising, but the current site shows none of that business's identity, address or phone number. Technical checks are clean — no malware detections, valid TLS, no Safe Browsing warning — but those only mean nothing malicious was served at scan time; they say nothing about who is behind the shop or whether goods would arrive.
09 · Community
Community
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