Is merrypeoplenz.com safe?
http://merrypeoplenz.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: partial · 4 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (62 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading · not available: did not fully complete
- page capture · limited: did not fully complete
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
merrypeoplenz.com is a young, blocked storefront flagged for phishing and fake-shop risk, not a verified Merry People retailer.
The site presents itself as an official New Zealand gumboot store and asks visitors to buy boots online, but it is only 288 days old, its own pages could not be reviewed because every request returned HTTP 403, and independent security research classifies it as a suspicious shop with blacklist detections and no established review history. A saved antivirus observation also records 11 independent engine families reporting an adverse result. The combination of an unreadable storefront, a very new domain, adverse vendor flags and a checkout-oriented sales pitch places this site in the High Risk band.
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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 24/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive11 independent antivirus families 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.-8 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 2 blacklist detections and no established public user-review history."-3 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The trust score of merrypeoplenz.com is low."-3 pts
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 38 to 24 and split those 14 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. 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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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site presents itself as an official New Zealand gumboot store and asks visitors to buy boots online, but it is only 288 days old, its own pages could not be reviewed because every request returned HTTP 403, and independent security research classifies it as a suspicious shop with blacklist detections and no established review history. A saved antivirus observation also records 11 independent engine families reporting an adverse result. The combination of an unreadable storefront, a very new domain, adverse vendor flags and a checkout-oriented sales pitch places this site in the High Risk band.
A new domain, a blocked storefront and adverse vendor flags
The registrable domain is only 288 days old, which is a short operating history for a store claiming to be an official brand outlet. When the scanner tried to read the site, every attempt returned HTTP 403, including a retry as the scanner's own identity and an HTTPS attempt, so the site's own page, contact, About and policy text was never reviewed. A screenshot captured the block page reading "Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access merrypeoplenz.com."
A saved antivirus observation records that 11 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result, naming alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender and CRDF among them. That observation is a saved result rather than a fresh submission, so it should be treated as a real but stale detection rather than a current clean bill of health.
Suspicious-shop classification and reported non-delivery patterns
Independent research gives the domain a low trust score and classifies it as a Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including two blacklist detections and no established public user-review history. A German-language research entry describes typical complaints as payment without delivery, wrong goods, or low-quality counterfeits. These are adverse external findings about the domain, not merely directory listings.
The site's commercial pitch is transactional: it asks visitors to shop waterproof Bobbi boots and buy authentic gumboots online. Combined with the young domain, the blocked storefront and the adverse vendor flags, the operator and customer risk is high, because a buyer has no way to verify the seller, the product or the delivery terms from the site itself.
Clean connection checks do not offset the operator risk
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and a valid TLS certificate exists for the host. However, the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS, so the connection to it was not encrypted. These are technical observations about the connection, not evidence that the store is legitimate or that orders will be fulfilled.
The decisive adverse evidence is operator-level: a saved antivirus observation with 11 engine families reporting an adverse result, a Suspicious Shop classification with blacklist detections, and reported complaint patterns of non-delivery, wrong goods and counterfeits. Clean Safe Browsing and TLS results do not cancel those findings.
Why the score is 24
11 independent antivirus families 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. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
15/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 23, 2026 - stale
15 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 13
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | phishing |
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| EmsisoftMalicious | phishing |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
| RisingMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| VIPREMalicious | phishing |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - phishing - Malicious
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- Emsisoft - phishing - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- Netcraft - Malicious
- Rising - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- VIPRE - phishing - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- ESET - 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
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - 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
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- 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
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - 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
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiPhishing
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerphishing and other frauds
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
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
Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access merrypeoplenz.com
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Sorry, you have been blocked. You are unable to access merrypeoplenz.com
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Independent evidence classifies the site as shop, but the page's own claim could not be captured.
What we observed
The page itself could not be fully inspected, so the report relies on the other saved checks.
What independent research found
3 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
2 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
- 0111 independent antivirus families 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.
- 022 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The trust score of merrypeoplenz.com is low."
- 032 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 2 blacklist detections and no established public user-review history."
Web research findings
Independent findings for merrypeoplenz.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.
- Scamadviseropen
"The trust score of merrypeoplenz.com is low."
- Gridinsoftopen
"This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 2 blacklist detections and no established public user-review history."
- Gridinsoft (DE)open
"Typische Beschwerden betreffen Zahlung ohne Lieferung, falsche Ware oder minderwertige Fälschungen."
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.
- Domainmerrypeoplenz.com
- Redirects tomerrypeoplenz.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
Domain Timeline
- Jan 12, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 28, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for merrypeoplenz.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.
Redirect Chain
The site refused our redirect check, so this chain may be incomplete.
- 1403http://merrypeoplenz.com/
Server Reputation
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentunavailable
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencepartial
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
11 independent antivirus families 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.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This site is classified as Suspicious Shop based on multiple risk signals, including 2 blacklist detections and no established public user-review history." · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "The trust score of merrypeoplenz.com is low."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 15 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 23, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Page content | Page content was not available for semantic review | Unavailable | No saved finding | Not available |
| Visual evidence | The site blocked our capture or showed an error page; 1 visible observation saved | Limited | No saved finding | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
| Independent research | 3 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 28, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result15 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 23, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage content was not available for semantic review
- CompletionUnavailableFindingNo saved finding
- FreshnessNot available
- Visual evidence
- ResultThe site blocked our capture or showed an error page; 1 visible observation saved
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
- Independent research
- Result3 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 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 merrypeoplenz.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is merrypeoplenz.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on merrypeoplenz.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from merrypeoplenz.com?
I ordered from merrypeoplenz.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report merrypeoplenz.com?
merrypeoplenz.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has merrypeoplenz.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is merrypeoplenz.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the merrypeoplenz.com domain?
Does merrypeoplenz.com have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
merrypeoplenz.com is a young, blocked storefront flagged for phishing and fake-shop risk, not a verified Merry People retailer.
The site presents itself as an official New Zealand gumboot store and asks visitors to buy boots online, but it is only 288 days old, its own pages could not be reviewed because every request returned HTTP 403, and independent security research classifies it as a suspicious shop with blacklist detections and no established review history. A saved antivirus observation also records 11 independent engine families reporting an adverse result. The combination of an unreadable storefront, a very new domain, adverse vendor flags and a checkout-oriented sales pitch places this site in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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