Is markandhouston.com safe?
http://markandhouston.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 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
High-risk online shop with reports of misrepresented goods, difficult China returns, and failed deliveries
Mark & Houston is a transactional online shop. Its storefront provides a cart, checkout, optional shipping protection, and order tracking, but external customer reports describe deceptively advertised products, costly returns to China, and orders that arrived very late or not at all. These concrete shopping risks outweigh the site's visible contact details and clean connection checks.
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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 36/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Strong1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Garbage products sold by liars living in Canada but having sweat shop-produced products sent directly from China. Won't accept returns of the deceptively…"
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Independent reviews say the items never arrived or took weeks or even months to arrive."
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, the trust score of markandhouston.com is extremely low. This is a strong indicator that the website may be a scam."
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe storefront shows an own-domain email address, phone number, and postal address.
- SupportsThe saved checks found valid TLS and no Safe Browsing warning.
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). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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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
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Mark & Houston is a transactional online shop. Its storefront provides a cart, checkout, optional shipping protection, and order tracking, but external customer reports describe deceptively advertised products, costly returns to China, and orders that arrived very late or not at all. These concrete shopping risks outweigh the site's visible contact details and clean connection checks.
Customer reports identify serious fulfillment and return risks
One customer review alleges that the products were deceptively advertised and that a return would only be accepted if the customer paid to ship the goods back to China.
A separate independent review reports complaints that some orders never arrived, while others took weeks or months to arrive. Another assessment gives the store an extremely low trust score and says it may be a scam.
Basic technical checks do not resolve the commercial danger
The saved checks found a valid encrypted connection and no Safe Browsing warning. Those findings only indicate that the connection was encrypted and that this particular warning system did not flag the site; they do not validate product claims, delivery, or returns.
There is also a saved, stale antivirus-family detection associated with the domain. Its timing needs confirmation, so it is a secondary concern rather than the basis of this verdict.
The site displays an own-domain support email, a phone number, and a postal address. These are useful contact details, but they do not outweigh the documented customer complaints about the transaction experience.
Why the score is 36
3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Garbage products sold by liars living in Canada but having sweat shop-produced products sent directly from China. Won't accept returns of the deceptively…". Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 9, 2026 - stale
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 1
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| RisingMalicious | phishing |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Rising - phishing - Malicious
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - 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 - 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 - 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
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiSociety/Lifestyle, Suspicious
- 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
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Visual context from the captured page
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What the captured page showed
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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
Mark & Houston – Mark & Houston
- Meta description
Established in 2020, MARK & HOUSTON offering clean, modern pieces—built on clarity and purpose. Simple and refined—nothing loud, nothing extra. Just sharp, intentional pieces that move with you.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/aboutRead
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Mark & Houston – Mark & Houston
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Dropshipping
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 013 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Garbage products sold by liars living in Canada but having sweat shop-produced products sent directly from China. Won't accept returns of the deceptively…"
- 023 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, the trust score of markandhouston.com is extremely low. This is a strong indicator that the website may be a scam."
- 033 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Independent reviews say the items never arrived or took weeks or even months to arrive."
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What shoppers encounter
A visitor can select a promoted physical product and proceed through the site's cart and checkout, where an optional shipping-protection charge is shown. Completing a purchase exposes the shopper to the delivery, product-quality, and return problems described in external reports.
If this is a scam, how it works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The storefront provides a Track Your Order page, but independent reports say some purchases arrived only after weeks or months and others did not arrive.
If the customer seeks to return an allegedly misrepresented product, one report says acceptance was conditioned on paying return postage to China.
Avoid purchasing from this store. If you already ordered, preserve the listing, receipt, tracking information, and all correspondence, and promptly use the dispute protections offered by your payment provider if the item is missing or materially misrepresented.
Web research findings
Independent findings for markandhouston.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.
- Trustpilotopen
"Garbage products sold by liars living in Canada but having sweat shop-produced products sent directly from China. Won't accept returns of the deceptively advertised trash unless you're willing to pay shipping back to China."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, the trust score of markandhouston.com is extremely low. This is a strong indicator that the website may be a scam."
- Infoquuopen
"Independent reviews say the items never arrived or took weeks or even months to arrive."
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.
- Domainmarkandhouston.com
- Redirects tomarkandhouston.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · fonts.shopifycdn.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 31, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.2 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 14, 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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@markandhouston.com).
- Phone number listed (+1(365)-657-0219).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 24 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for markandhouston.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
- Google Tag Manager
Chat, reviews and email
- Klaviyo
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- cdnjs
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://markandhouston.com/
- 2301https://markandhouston.com/
- 3200https://www.markandhouston.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
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. 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.
3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Garbage products sold by liars living in Canada but having sweat shop-produced products sent directly from China. Won't accept returns of the deceptively…" · 3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Independent reviews say the items never arrived or took weeks or even months to arrive."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 9, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 14, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 9, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 14, 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 markandhouston.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is markandhouston.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on markandhouston.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from markandhouston.com?
I ordered from markandhouston.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report markandhouston.com?
markandhouston.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has markandhouston.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is markandhouston.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the markandhouston.com domain?
Does markandhouston.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the markandhouston.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
High-risk online shop with reports of misrepresented goods, difficult China returns, and failed deliveries
Mark & Houston is a transactional online shop. Its storefront provides a cart, checkout, optional shipping protection, and order tracking, but external customer reports describe deceptively advertised products, costly returns to China, and orders that arrived very late or not at all. These concrete shopping risks outweigh the site's visible contact details and clean connection checks.
09 · Community
Community
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