Is refurbify.online safe?
http://refurbify.online/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 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
Nine-day-old domain presents itself as an established 2015 Indian company, with support run from a free Gmail inbox
Refurbify (refurbify.online) is a storefront selling refurbished electronics that claims to be 'Refurbify Internet Pvt. Ltd.', an Indian company incorporated in 2015 with a registered office in Koramangala, Bengaluru, and to issue a GST invoice on every order. The registrable domain, however, is only 9 days old, and the only support address shown is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on the store's own domain. Two antivirus results have marked the URL as suspicious, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 31/100 across 131 saved reports. The site's own pages were readable and no malware or phishing page was observed, but the gap between the claimed corporate history and the brand-new domain, combined with the free-mail support channel, is the pattern of a storefront built to look established rather than one that is. We rate it High Risk.
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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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 6 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- ModerateThe domain is 9 days old while the site's own copy claims the company has operated since 2015 and is incorporated in Bangalore with a CIN and GSTIN.
- Moderate2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- MinorThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 31/100 across 131 saved reports.
- MinorCustomer support uses a free Gmail inbox (refurbifysupport@gmail.com) and no contact email uses the site's own domain.
- MinorNo operator postal address was visible on the captured page, despite the site claiming a registered office in Koramangala, Bengaluru.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat 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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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Refurbify (refurbify.online) is a storefront selling refurbished electronics that claims to be 'Refurbify Internet Pvt. Ltd.', an Indian company incorporated in 2015 with a registered office in Koramangala, Bengaluru, and to issue a GST invoice on every order. The registrable domain, however, is only 9 days old, and the only support address shown is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on the store's own domain. Two antivirus results have marked the URL as suspicious, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 31/100 across 131 saved reports. The site's own pages were readable and no malware or phishing page was observed, but the gap between the claimed corporate history and the brand-new domain, combined with the free-mail support channel, is the pattern of a storefront built to look established rather than one that is. We rate it High Risk.
A 2015 company story on a 9-day-old domain
The site's own copy states that 'Refurbify is a registered Indian company operating since 2015, with a physical office in Bengaluru' and that it is 'run by Refurbify Internet Pvt. Ltd., incorporated in Bangalore in 2015 (CIN U74900KA2015PTC078386, GSTIN 29AAGCB1662A1Z1), with a registered office in Koramangala, Bengaluru.' It also promises a GST invoice on every order. Those are strong, checkable claims of a long-established business.
The registrable domain, however, is only 9 days old. A brand-new domain can be launched by an existing company, but here the storefront itself is the only thing presenting the 2015 identity, and the two facts sit side by side on the same page. That mismatch is the central concern: the site asks visitors to trust a corporate history that the domain's own age does not support.
The contact channel reinforces the same gap. The store's support address is a free-mail inbox (refurbifysupport@gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain, and no contact email uses the site's own domain. A business that prints a CIN and a GSTIN on its About page would normally route support through its own domain; using Gmail instead is a moderate adverse signal about how the operation is actually run.
Clean connection, but a flagged URL and a noisy hosting IP
On the technical side, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. No malware download, phishing form, or credential-harvesting page was observed on the captured content. Those are real positives and they mean the site is not, on this evidence, actively infecting visitors or stealing logins.
They are not the whole picture. Two antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious (alphaMountain.ai and Fortinet), and that saved analysis is stale, so it should be treated as a real but dated detection rather than a current clean bill of health. Separately, the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 31/100 across 131 saved reports, which indicates the address is shared with other activity that has drawn abuse complaints. Neither fact proves this store defrauded anyone, but together they lower confidence that the operation is a normal, well-established retailer.
Why the score is 38
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 25, 2026 - stale
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | spam |
| FortinetSuspicious | spam |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - spam - Suspicious
- Fortinet - spam - 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
- 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 - Unrated
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiSpam
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
- 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
India's Trusted Refurbished Tech Platform
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
India's Trusted Refurbished Tech Platform
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
Refurbished Phones, Laptops & MacBooks Online | Refurbify
- Meta description
Shop Refurbify certified refurbished phones, laptops, tablets and gadgets.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/legal/terms-conditionsRead
- Contact page/pages/supportRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Refurbished Phones, Laptops & MacBooks Online | Refurbify
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 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
- 01The domain is 9 days old while the site's own copy claims the company has operated since 2015 and is incorporated in Bangalore with a CIN and GSTIN.
- 02The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- 03Customer support uses a free Gmail inbox (refurbifysupport@gmail.com) and no contact email uses the site's own domain.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually does here
A visitor arriving at refurbify.online is invited to 'Shop refurbished' and to use the 'Shop' and 'Cart' controls to buy refurbished electronics, with a 'Track order' link for follow-up. The commercial flow is a standard same-site purchase path: browse, add to cart, check out. The site also offers a 'WhatsApp Chat with our team' link, which routes the conversation off the storefront to wa.me.
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 exposure that follows is not a technical one. Because the storefront presents a 2015 company identity while the domain is 9 days old, and because support runs through a free Gmail inbox rather than a domain mailbox, a buyer who pays for an order is relying on an operator whose claimed history and contactability do not match what the domain and contact details show. That is the risk a shopper should weigh before entering payment details.
Do not enter payment or personal details on refurbify.online until the operator's identity is independently verified. The store claims to be Refurbify Internet Pvt. Ltd., incorporated in Bangalore in 2015 with a CIN and GSTIN, but the domain is only 9 days old and support runs through a Gmail address rather than a domain mailbox. If you want to check the company, look up the CIN and GSTIN on the official Indian registry and GST portals, and confirm the Bengaluru address independently, before trusting the storefront. Treat the 'Shop' and 'Cart' purchase path as unverified, and prefer a retailer with a domain history and a domain-based support address.
Web research findings
Independent findings for refurbify.online, 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 refurbify.online. 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.
- Domainrefurbify.online
- Redirects torefurbify.online
- Hosted byInternet Utilities Europe and Asia Limited
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 23, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 9 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 2, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
refurbify.online was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals 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 operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Phone number listed (+91 91012 30012).
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
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 refurbify.online.
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.
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
- 1301http://refurbify.online/
- 2200https://refurbify.online/
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. 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.
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. · The domain is 9 days old while the site's own copy claims the company has operated since 2015 and is incorporated in Bangalore with a CIN and GSTIN.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 25, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 25, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 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 refurbify.online a scam or a legit website?
Is refurbify.online safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on refurbify.online — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from refurbify.online?
Is my device at risk after visiting refurbify.online?
How do I report refurbify.online?
refurbify.online looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has refurbify.online been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is refurbify.online on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the refurbify.online domain?
Does refurbify.online have a valid SSL certificate?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Nine-day-old domain presents itself as an established 2015 Indian company, with support run from a free Gmail inbox
Refurbify (refurbify.online) is a storefront selling refurbished electronics that claims to be 'Refurbify Internet Pvt. Ltd.', an Indian company incorporated in 2015 with a registered office in Koramangala, Bengaluru, and to issue a GST invoice on every order. The registrable domain, however, is only 9 days old, and the only support address shown is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on the store's own domain. Two antivirus results have marked the URL as suspicious, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 31/100 across 131 saved reports. The site's own pages were readable and no malware or phishing page was observed, but the gap between the claimed corporate history and the brand-new domain, combined with the free-mail support channel, is the pattern of a storefront built to look established rather than one that is. We rate it High Risk.
09 · Community
Community
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