Is projectixdantevoss.com safe?
http://projectixdantevoss.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
New, anonymous Shopify book storefront selling a "banned" title with no verifiable seller identity
projectixdantevoss.com presents itself as "the only official website for Project IX" and says the book "has been banned on Amazon and all other platforms", then sells digital, audiobook and paperback editions through a Shopify checkout. The domain is only 17 days old, the seller gives no phone number, no postal address and no mailbox on its own domain, and the only contact route is a free Gmail inbox. Nothing malicious was detected on the site itself, but the combination of a brand-new domain, an unverifiable author and a scarcity-style sales pitch means buyers cannot confirm who they are paying or whether goods will arrive. That places it in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
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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 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.-6 pts
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.-6 pts
- MinorThe domain is 17 days old, so the store has no trading history.
- MinorNo phone number, no postal address and no own-domain email are published; the contact address is a free Gmail inbox.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsCheckout and privacy handling run on Shopify, so card processing is handled by an established platform rather than the seller.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the connection was validly encrypted.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 70 to 58 and split those 12 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
projectixdantevoss.com presents itself as "the only official website for Project IX" and says the book "has been banned on Amazon and all other platforms", then sells digital, audiobook and paperback editions through a Shopify checkout. The domain is only 17 days old, the seller gives no phone number, no postal address and no mailbox on its own domain, and the only contact route is a free Gmail inbox. Nothing malicious was detected on the site itself, but the combination of a brand-new domain, an unverifiable author and a scarcity-style sales pitch means buyers cannot confirm who they are paying or whether goods will arrive. That places it in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
A "banned book" pitch from a seller who cannot be identified
The page's central claim is that this is "the only official website for Project IX" and that the title "has been banned on Amazon and all other platforms". That framing pushes visitors toward buying immediately on this one site instead of checking a mainstream retailer, and our review found no independent confirmation that the book or its author exists elsewhere.
The seller side is thin. The captured page lists no phone number and no operator postal address, and no contact email uses the site's own domain; the store's contact address is a free Gmail inbox. A buyer therefore has no verifiable business identity to fall back on if an order goes wrong.
The domain itself is 17 days old, so there is no trading history behind the storefront. A young domain is not proof of wrongdoing on its own, but combined with an anonymous seller and an unverifiable product it removes the usual signals a shopper would use to judge reliability.
Clean technical checks, unresolved operator questions
The technical layer looks ordinary. The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, so there is no sign of a compromised or impersonated page at the connection level.
One antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious, with no vendor consensus behind it. That is a single isolated flag rather than a confirmed detection, so we treat it as a caution rather than proof of malware.
The checkout runs on Shopify, with the storefront footer reading "Powered by Shopify" and links to Shopify's consumer privacy policy and privacy portal. That means card data is handled by an established payment platform rather than by the seller directly, which limits the payment-fraud exposure even though it says nothing about whether the book will be delivered.
Why the score is 58
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh result
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
- BitDefenderonlineshop
- 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
THE ONLY OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR PROJECT IX
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
THE ONLY OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR PROJECT IX
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
Project IX by Dante Voss | The Banned Book Official Site
- Meta description
Project IX by Dante Voss is the 453-page banned book removed from Amazon & every platform. Get digital, audio & limited paperback editions only here today.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/story-ixCould not be read
- Privacy policy/policies/privacy-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Project IX by Dante Voss | The Banned Book Official Site
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
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 site claims to be the only official source for a book it says was banned on Amazon and all other platforms, a scarcity pitch we could not verify independently.
- 02Checkout and privacy handling run on Shopify, so card processing is handled by an established platform rather than the seller.
- 03The domain is 17 days old, so the store has no trading history.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens if you order
A visitor is invited to "Order the book" and then to "Add to cart" or "Buy it now", which leads into the store's order flow. Payment details would go to a Shopify checkout operated by a seller whose name, address and phone number are not published on the page.
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.
If the order does not arrive or the file is not what was promised, the only published route to raise it is a free-mail inbox on a domain registered 17 days ago, with no postal address or phone number to escalate to. That is the practical risk here: not a technical attack, but a purchase from an unaccountable seller.
Do not enter payment details here unless you can independently confirm the author and the book exist and are sold elsewhere. If you want to read it, look for the title through a mainstream retailer or the publisher first; if you do order, use a card with chargeback protection and treat the "banned everywhere" claim as marketing rather than fact.
Web research findings
Independent findings for projectixdantevoss.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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for projectixdantevoss.com. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
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.
- Domainprojectixdantevoss.com
- Redirects toprojectixdantevoss.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesdelivery.shopifyapps.com · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 17, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 17 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 4, 2026Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk
The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks are detailed above.
projectixdantevoss.com was registered very recently when this review was saved. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, so a young domain whose evidence is mixed or incomplete warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No contact email uses the site's own domain.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com).
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for projectixdantevoss.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
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
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://projectixdantevoss.com/
- 2200https://projectixdantevoss.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
- Antiviruscomplete
- 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 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. · The domain is 17 days old, so the store has no trading history.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 4, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 4, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 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 projectixdantevoss.com a scam or is it safe?
Is projectixdantevoss.com safe to use?
Has projectixdantevoss.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is projectixdantevoss.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
New, anonymous Shopify book storefront selling a "banned" title with no verifiable seller identity
projectixdantevoss.com presents itself as "the only official website for Project IX" and says the book "has been banned on Amazon and all other platforms", then sells digital, audiobook and paperback editions through a Shopify checkout. The domain is only 17 days old, the seller gives no phone number, no postal address and no mailbox on its own domain, and the only contact route is a free Gmail inbox. Nothing malicious was detected on the site itself, but the combination of a brand-new domain, an unverifiable author and a scarcity-style sales pitch means buyers cannot confirm who they are paying or whether goods will arrive. That places it in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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