No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is lakachaka.com legit or a scam?
Legitimate Shopify store selling artisanal Wayuu bags with a 2.6-year-old domain, positive reviews, and no scam reports found.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as a normal e-commerce shop for Wayuu mochilas and totes with product listings, pricing, and Shopify infrastructure. Two antivirus engines flagged it as phishing or malicious, yet browser blocklists stayed clean and the hosting IP shows zero abuse score. Domain age of 954 days plus three positive customer reviews and a December 2024 news article provide strong legitimacy signals. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators appear in our research. The combination of real business evidence and clean overall reputation outweighs the isolated engine flags.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for lakachaka.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Shopify e-commerce site (lakachaka.com) selling handmade Wayuu mochilas and totes from Colombian artisans
- - Active Instagram account @lakachaka.shop promoting the brand and products
- - Featured in DC News Now article 'Handcrafted magical mochilas with Laka Chaka' published Dec 12, 2024
- - Site displays 17 customer reviews with positive comments on colors, quality, and value
- - Privacy policy references address at 1323 Rittenhouse St NW, Washington
- - Domain age approximately 954 days; no scam, fraud, or complaint mentions found across searches
- - Shop.app listing notes 5 reviews for the store
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (004.51.097).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://lakachaka.com/
- 2301https://lakachaka.com/
- 3200https://www.lakachaka.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 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 contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
0 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 contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on lakachaka.com and not a lookalike like l-akachaka.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
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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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on lakachaka.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- lakachaka.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 70/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. lakachaka.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- lakachaka.com is 2.6 years old, registered on 10/22/2023 through Squarespace Domains LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged lakachaka.com as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. lakachaka.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- lakachaka.com resolves to an IP operated by Shopify, Inc. in CA (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.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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