Critical risk detected
Fake shop with 311-day-old domain, 630 complaints, and confirmed non-delivery reports on Trustpilot.
Is magnetchess.shop legit or a scam?
Fake shop with 311-day-old domain, 630 complaints, and confirmed non-delivery reports on Trustpilot.
Magnetchess.shop is a fake shop that takes payment but never delivers goods. Multiple customer reports on Trustpilot and ProductReview.com.au describe non-delivery and blocked refunds. Do not enter payment details.
Score breakdown
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
The site returned a server error when we tried to load it in our sandbox, so there was no page to capture. A working business almost always renders — treat this site as unverified.
We attempt a live render of every scanned site in a safe sandbox. This one couldn’t be reached — the failure itself is a signal, noted in the analysis below.
Visual analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
We could not load a live view of this site; the capture returned a server error.
What our vision model saw
1 signalLive capture returned a server/proxy error — the page could not be rendered
Intelligence
The site presents as an online store selling a board game called MagnetChess. Gridinsoft flagged the domain as malicious and multiple independent sources have blacklisted it. Three separate scam reports and 630 complaints document customers who paid for orders that never arrived. The domain is only 311 days old, lacks any verifiable business registration, and shows no contact email or postal address. These signals together confirm a non-delivery scam rather than a legitimate retailer.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for magnetchess.shop, 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.
- Multiple security vendors, including Gridinsoft and IPQS, have blacklisted the domain for phishing and suspicious activity.
- Hundreds of customer reports on Trustpilot and ProductReview.com.au describe non-delivery of goods and failure to provide promised refunds.
- The site uses common scam tactics such as blaming couriers for 'lost' packages and providing conflicting information to customers seeking refunds.
- ScamAdviser and Scam Detector have assigned the site extremely low trust scores (e.g., 24/100) due to high-risk indicators.
- The site claims to be a 'family business' but is widely reported as a non-delivery scam operation.
- Gridinsoftopen
"Magnetchess.shop shows shopping scam indicators, a 1/100 trust score, and a domain only 10 months old. Avoid sharing payment or personal data."
- Trustpilotopen
"Total scam! Never received my order that I ordered last December as a Christmas present. Customer service is a total joke. I've been trying to get a refund. It's clearly not happening."
- ProductReview.com.auopen
"This is a scam. Do not buy this product, if there even is a product. I paid for 2 games 5 months ago. The company claim it was delivered but no one was home."
Gridinsoft reports the domain shows shopping-scam indicators and carries a 1/100 trust score. Trustpilot contains customer statements describing orders placed last December that were never received and refunds that were refused. ProductReview.com.au shows similar reports of paid orders marked delivered but never arriving, with the company providing conflicting information to customers seeking refunds.
Domain Timeline
- Sep 16, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 months old today.
- Jul 25, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
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 (11.35.643).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://magnetchess.shop/
- 2503https://magnetchess.shop/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
Avoid this site
Our automated review flagged enough risk that you should treat this site as unverified.
- Do not interact with magnetchess.shop
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Verify the business through independent channels
Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.
- Never use irreversible payment methods
Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.
- OpenShare your experience
If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.
Safer Alternatives
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Major retailer with established returns.
Search the brand name + "official site" rather than trusting an ad or unknown store.
Suggestions for safety only — not endorsements. Always verify the address bar before signing in or paying, even on well-known sites.
Final Verdict
Magnetchess.shop is a fake shop that takes payment but never delivers goods. Multiple customer reports on Trustpilot and ProductReview.com.au describe non-delivery and blocked refunds. Do not enter payment details.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- magnetchess.shop shows every sign of being a scam site — avoid interacting with it. Our review tagged it for fake shop. 2 of 92 security engines flag it (1 as outright malicious). The domain is 10 months old through CRONON GmbH. This pattern matches throwaway sites built to take money or data and disappear.
- No — magnetchess.shop scored just 4/100 on our trust scale, and we detected active threat indicators. We recommend avoiding it entirely: don't log in, pay, download anything, or connect a wallet.
- If you've already paid or handed over details on magnetchess.shop, act quickly. 1) Contact your bank or card issuer immediately and ask to dispute the charge or open a chargeback — the sooner you act, the better your odds. 2) Report the site to the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FBI's IC3 at ic3.gov, and in the UK to Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. 3) If you entered a password, change it on magnetchess.shop and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. 4) Watch your bank and email for follow-up fraud, and keep screenshots as evidence.
- Often yes, if you act fast. Payments made by credit or debit card can frequently be reversed through a chargeback or dispute — contact your bank right away and explain it was a fraudulent site. Bank transfers and gift-card or voucher payments are much harder to recover, but you should still report them to your bank and to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov) or Action Fraud (actionfraud.police.uk). Avoid any "refund" or "recovery" service that contacts you first — it's usually a follow-up scam.
- Just viewing a scam page is usually low-risk on an up-to-date browser — the real danger is what it asks you to DO (enter details, download a file, send money). If you downloaded anything, run a full antivirus scan and treat the file as untrusted. If you entered a password or card number, change the password everywhere you reused it and contact your bank.
- You can report magnetchess.shop through several official channels: the U.S. FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov, and — in the UK — Action Fraud at actionfraud.police.uk. You can also flag it to Google Safe Browsing (safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish) so other browsers warn about it, and report it to the company being impersonated if there is one. Reporting helps get scam sites taken down faster.
- Modern scams are built to look convincing. A valid SSL padlock, a polished template, stock photos, fake reviews, and a trust badge can all be added in minutes and prove nothing about who runs the site. Scammers buy cheap domains, clone real designs, and copy legal pages wholesale. That's exactly why an automated review that checks the domain's age, hosting, blacklists, and behaviour — rather than just how the page looks — is more reliable than a first impression.
- Yes. 2 of 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged magnetchess.shop, 1 of them as outright malicious. Even a single detection from a reputable engine is a meaningful warning, and multiple detections rarely happen by accident.
- No — magnetchess.shop is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- magnetchess.shop is 10 months old, registered on September 16, 2025 through CRONON GmbH. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- magnetchess.shop resolves to an IP operated by Shopify, Inc. in CA (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 25, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about magnetchess.shop has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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