Is linentales.com safe?
http://linentales.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Established retail site with low risk, but international-order costs deserve attention
Linen Tales appears to be an established online shop: its domain has been registered for more than 13 years, one independent review rates it 10/10, and the saved security checks found no threat warning or TLS problem. The main concern is customer experience rather than a demonstrated scam: two customer complaints describe an unexpected £65 import bill and unclear disclosure that the business was based in Lithuania.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scanSaved antivirus result from Jul 15, 2026: no detections across 58 enginesWhere 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 82/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 2 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateOne customer complaint on a public review site: "BEWARE LARGE IMPORT TAXES -- when my order finally arrived, so too did a very large "import tax bill" from their chosen courier company. I had to pay an extra…"
- ModerateThe rendered page requested permission to send browser notifications.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 4,851 days old.
- SupportsAn independent review gave Linen Tales a 10/10 rating.
- SupportsThe saved checks found no browsing-safety warning and confirmed a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Linen Tales appears to be an established online shop: its domain has been registered for more than 13 years, one independent review rates it 10/10, and the saved security checks found no threat warning or TLS problem. The main concern is customer experience rather than a demonstrated scam: two customer complaints describe an unexpected £65 import bill and unclear disclosure that the business was based in Lithuania.
Credibility signals and customer complaints
The long-standing domain and positive independent review support legitimacy, but the available feedback is not uniformly favorable.
One customer said a £65 import charge was required when the order arrived, while another said the retailer's location in Vilnius, Lithuania, was not clear during ordering. These reports support caution about cross-border charges and disclosure, but do not establish fake merchandise or non-delivery.
Technical checks are clean, with some promotional friction
The saved checks found a valid encrypted connection and no browsing-safety warning. These results reduce immediate technical concern but do not guarantee satisfactory order terms or customer service.
The page presented a “SHOP NOW” action, a “Your Secret Gift Is Inside” pop-up, and a browser-notification permission request. It also linked country choices to linentales.de and linentales.us and a “Learn more” destination on linentales-com.myshopify.com; none of the supplied evidence shows those links initiating a harmful flow.
The site's contact details were not fully reviewed, so this assessment does not verify the operator's complete contact information.
Why the score is 82
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 92
No detectionsSaved analysis from July 15, 2026 - stale
No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 34 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
All 92 engine results
- 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 - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Clean
- 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 - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- 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
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiBusiness/Economy, Shopping
- BitDefenderonlineshop
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- Sophosonline shopping
- Xcitium Verdict Cloudkids sites
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
Your Secret Gift Is Inside
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Your Secret Gift Is Inside
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Linen Tales
- Meta description
Recommended shop for high-quality linen bedding, table linen, kitchen linen and etc. OEKO-TEX certified European Flax. All made by local artisans in Lithuania.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/aboutRead
- Terms/pages/terms-and-conditionsRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/shipping-returnsRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Linen Tales
What we observed
Saved browser evidence recorded notification prompts.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 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
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 4,851 days old.
- 02The saved checks found no browsing-safety warning and confirmed a valid encrypted connection.
- 03One customer complaint on a public review site: "BEWARE LARGE IMPORT TAXES -- when my order finally arrived, so too did a very large "import tax bill" from their chosen courier company. I had to pay an extra…"
Web research findings
Independent findings for linentales.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Trustpilotopen
"BEWARE LARGE IMPORT TAXES -- when my order finally arrived, so too did a very large "import tax bill" from their chosen courier company. I had to pay an extra £65 to receive my items."
- Trustpilotopen
"What is not clear when you order from Linen Tales is that they are actually based in Vilnius, LITHUANIA."
- Curiously Consciousopen
"My Rating of Linen Tales: 10/10"
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
- Domainlinentales.com
- Redirects tolinentales.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · linentales.co.uk
Domain Timeline
- Jun 28, 2013Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 13 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 9, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
linentales.com has operated for years and this review found no material threat — a long track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for linentales.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Microsoft Clarity
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
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
The site refused our redirect check, so the chain below is the one our page reader followed.
- 1301http://linentales.com/
- 2200https://linentales.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Trust History
- Oct 9: Safety Score 72/100 (low_risk)
- Oct 9: Safety Score 82/100 (low_risk)
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
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
The rendered page requested permission to send browser notifications.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
One customer complaint on a public review site: "BEWARE LARGE IMPORT TAXES -- when my order finally arrived, so too did a very large "import tax bill" from their chosen courier company. I had to pay an extra…"
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 92 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Jul 15, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 9, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 9, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 9, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 9, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jul 15, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 9, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 9, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 9, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 9, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is linentales.com a scam or is it safe?
Is linentales.com safe to use?
Has linentales.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is linentales.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the linentales.com domain?
Does linentales.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Established retail site with low risk, but international-order costs deserve attention
Linen Tales appears to be an established online shop: its domain has been registered for more than 13 years, one independent review rates it 10/10, and the saved security checks found no threat warning or TLS problem. The main concern is customer experience rather than a demonstrated scam: two customer complaints describe an unexpected £65 import bill and unclear disclosure that the business was based in Lithuania.
09 · Community
Community
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