Is kooliesource.com safe?
http://kooliesource.com/
Checked on
How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
KoolieSource is a 2025-registered clothing storefront with free-mail-only contact, refund terms that let it decline or partly refund returns, and independent trust listings that flag it as a suspicious shop.
KoolieSource sells women's fashion apparel through a Shoplazza-style storefront with a normal-looking catalogue, cart and order-tracking pages. The problem is accountability rather than malware: the only contact address is a hotmail.com inbox, the refund policy lets the store decline a return or issue only a partial refund, and the domain was registered in April 2025 even though the About page describes a brand founded in 2012. Independent site-checking services list it as a suspicious shop with a very low trust score. Nothing malicious was detected on the page itself, so this sits in the High Risk band rather than the Dangerous one.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026Where 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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 10 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- StrongSeveral fake-shop tells appear together on a 577-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, refund-trap terms.-3 pts
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (hotmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.-1 pts
- ModerateA 577-day-old domain combines free-mail-only contact with refund terms that allow declined or partial refunds — the shell-store pattern.-1 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Kooliesource.com está marcado como tienda sospechosa."-1 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The Scam Detector website Validator gives kooliesource.com one of the lowest trust scores on the platform: 11.7."-1 pts
- ModerateThe refund page says kooliesource may decline a return or issue only a partial refund, and consumer-caused returns are shipped at the buyer's expense.-2 pts
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- MinorThe About page claims a brand founded in 2012, while the domain was registered on 08/04/2025 and is 577 days old.
- MinorThe business contact is kooliesource@hotmail.com; no email address uses the site's own domain.
- MinorIndependent site checkers label kooliesource.com a suspicious shop, give it a trust score of 11.7 and advise staying away.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection; no popups or downloads were observed.
- SupportsThe store publishes a phone number and a postal address and has complete About, Terms, Refund, Shipping and Contact pages.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 47 to 38 and split those 9 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
Lost money or shared details on kooliesource.com? Do this now
Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
Ask them to dispute the charge or open a chargeback; the sooner you act, the better your odds. Card payments can often be reversed. Bank transfers and gift cards are harder, but report them to your bank too. Crypto payments usually cannot be reversed: report the wallet address and transaction ID to the exchange you sent from.
- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on kooliesource.com, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
Gname.com Pte. Ltd. takes abuse reports at complaint@gname.com (+65.65189986). Include the address and what happened.
- 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
KoolieSource sells women's fashion apparel through a Shoplazza-style storefront with a normal-looking catalogue, cart and order-tracking pages. The problem is accountability rather than malware: the only contact address is a hotmail.com inbox, the refund policy lets the store decline a return or issue only a partial refund, and the domain was registered in April 2025 even though the About page describes a brand founded in 2012. Independent site-checking services list it as a suspicious shop with a very low trust score. Nothing malicious was detected on the page itself, so this sits in the High Risk band rather than the Dangerous one.
Who is behind the shop, and why the contact trail is thin
The store's business contact is kooliesource@hotmail.com, a free webmail inbox rather than an address on its own domain; no contact email anywhere on the site uses kooliesource.com. That means the shop's identity is not tied to the domain it sells from, and there is no company name or registration number disclosed alongside it.
The return instructions on the refund page carry a second, unrelated free-mail address, rokomodashop@hotmail.com, next to the KoolieSource one. A different storefront's mailbox appearing inside this shop's own return steps points to a shared template or a shared operator across several shops.
On the positive side, the site does publish a phone number (+86 13955692055) and a postal address, and it has complete About, Terms, Refund, Shipping and Contact pages. Those details are real signals of a functioning storefront, but they are not tied to any registered entity, so they do not resolve who is actually responsible for an order.
Refund terms and a founding date the domain record does not support
The store's own refund policy states that if an item does not meet its conditions, kooliesource reserves the right to decline the return or issue only a partial refund, and that when a return is caused by the consumer, the consumer pays the shipping fee. A buyer therefore has no guaranteed route to a full refund once an item is disputed.
The About page describes a brand founded in 2012 with sales networks across Europe and America, but the registrable domain is only 577 days old and independent domain records put its creation at 08/04/2025. The long trading history claimed on the site is not backed by the domain it is sold from.
Taken together — a young domain, free-mail-only contact, and refund terms that permit declined or partial refunds — this matches the shell-store pattern our shop checks look for, which is why the score lands in the High Risk band rather than Moderate.
No malware on the page, but outside checks are unfavourable
The technical side is clean: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. No popups, forced redirects, notification prompts or file downloads were observed, and the commercial links we mapped — Track Your Order and Payment Method — stay on kooliesource.com.
One saved antivirus observation marks the URL as suspicious, and that result is stale, so it is a weak signal on its own. The stronger outside evidence is the reputation side: a site-checking service classifies kooliesource.com as a suspicious shop and blocks it on that basis, another validator gives it a trust score of 11.7 and advises staying away, and a French site-analysis service describes the site's characteristics as very negative.
The domain owner is hidden in the WHOIS record, which is common but removes another way to check who is selling to you. None of this proves a specific order went undelivered; it shows a shop with no verifiable operator and policies that favour the seller in a dispute.
Why the score is 38
Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 577-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, refund-trap terms.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 2026 - stale
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 - 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
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Unrated
- 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 ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleshopping
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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows a cotton-flower logo with the wordmark 'KoolieSource' in teal, plus English/USD selectors, search, account and cart icons. Category menu lists Home, Best Sellers, New Arrivals, Colorful Tops, Statement Bottoms, Coordinated Sets, Layering Outerwear. Full-width autumn-lifestyle hero photo of five models in beige/brown outerwear and knitwear against a fence and hills; no price, discount, countdown or urgency text is visible. A floating circular cart button sits at the bottom-right of the page.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a cotton-flower logo with the wordmark 'KoolieSource' in teal, plus English/USD selectors, search, account and cart icons.
- 02
Category menu lists Home, Best Sellers, New Arrivals, Colorful Tops, Statement Bottoms, Coordinated Sets, Layering Outerwear.
- 03
Full-width autumn-lifestyle hero photo of five models in beige/brown outerwear and knitwear against a fence and hills; no price, discount, countdown or urgency text is visible.
- 04
A floating circular cart button sits at the bottom-right of the page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
kooliesource
- Meta description
- The same text as the page title
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/termsconditionsRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/refund-returnRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
kooliesource
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
8 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
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
- 01Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 577-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, refund-trap terms.
- 02The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (hotmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- 03A 577-day-old domain combines free-mail-only contact with refund terms that allow declined or partial refunds — the shell-store pattern.
Web research findings
Independent findings for kooliesource.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Gridinsoft (Spanish)open
"Kooliesource.com está marcado como tienda sospechosa."
- Gridinsoft (Spanish)open
"Gridinsoft bloquea este sitio web porque fue clasificado como tienda sospechosa."
- Gridinsoft (German)open
"Kooliesource.com ist als verdächtiger Shop markiert."
- Scam Detectoropen
"The Scam Detector website Validator gives kooliesource.com one of the lowest trust scores on the platform: 11.7."
- Scam Detectoropen
"Long story short, we recommend staying away from this website."
- FranceVerifopen
"Le site analysé présente des caractéristiques très négatives"
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainkooliesource.com
- Redirects towww.kooliesource.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesimg.staticdj.com · static.staticdj.com
Domain Timeline
- Apr 8, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.5 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 7, 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.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (hotmail.com).
- Phone number listed (+86 13955692055).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for www.kooliesource.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.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
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://kooliesource.com/
- 2301https://kooliesource.com/
- 3200https://www.kooliesource.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
- Antiviruspartial
- 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.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
Several fake-shop tells appear together on a 577-day-old domain: a generic or free-mail contact, refund-trap terms. · The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (hotmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
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 | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
| Independent research | 8 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 7, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
- Independent research
- Result8 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 7, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is kooliesource.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is kooliesource.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on kooliesource.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from kooliesource.com?
I ordered from kooliesource.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report kooliesource.com?
kooliesource.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has kooliesource.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is kooliesource.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the kooliesource.com domain?
Does kooliesource.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the kooliesource.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
KoolieSource is a 2025-registered clothing storefront with free-mail-only contact, refund terms that let it decline or partly refund returns, and independent trust listings that flag it as a suspicious shop.
KoolieSource sells women's fashion apparel through a Shoplazza-style storefront with a normal-looking catalogue, cart and order-tracking pages. The problem is accountability rather than malware: the only contact address is a hotmail.com inbox, the refund policy lets the store decline a return or issue only a partial refund, and the domain was registered in April 2025 even though the About page describes a brand founded in 2012. Independent site-checking services list it as a suspicious shop with a very low trust score. Nothing malicious was detected on the page itself, so this sits in the High Risk band rather than the Dangerous one.
09 · Community
Community
Are you the owner of kooliesource.com?Verify and reply