Is ripcurlnewzealand.com safe?
http://ripcurlnewzealand.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Rip Curl New Zealand 'outlet' store with no named operator, flagged by security vendors and fake-site lists
ripcurlnewzealand.com is an online shop that uses the Rip Curl name, logo and a New Zealand outlet framing to sell swimwear and surf gear in NZ$. Our review found no contact email, phone number or postal address and no named operator. The domain is about 1 year 2 months old, and independent sources list it as a fraudulent e-commerce site and in a fake-sites database. That fits a High Risk score: the technical checks are mostly clean, but the store itself looks like an unaffiliated imitation of a real brand. Ages and dates here are at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026).
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan3 antivirus engines flagged this URLNetcraft, alphaMountain.ai, GridinsoftAt a glance
Saved with this scan, at the time of the check (Nov 14, 2026); each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
1.2 years old
Registered Aug 16, 2025Expires Aug 16, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 26, 2027 (73 days after the check)Hosting
United States (US)
Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., LtdPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
3/93
3 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 14, 2026
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 22/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 5 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateNetcraft flags the URL as malicious and two other engines as suspicious; an earlier analysis had four engines flag it.
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Rip Curl | Rip Curl | hold | 2025-09-20 05:50 | 2025-10-15 23:31 | chincst"
- Moderate3 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Ripcurlnewzealand.com 是一个欺诈性电子商务网站，通过欺骗性策略收取付款并窃取个人数据。"
- MinorNo contact email, phone number or postal address appears on the captured pages.
- MinorThe storefront shows the Rip Curl wordmark, logo and a branded retail-building image with an NZ$ free-shipping banner, while naming no operator.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain is about 1 year 2 months old, so it is not freshly registered.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed shows no warning, the TLS certificate is valid, and the hosting IP has no abuse reports.
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).
Lost money or shared details on ripcurlnewzealand.com? Do this now
Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
Ask them to dispute the charge or open a chargeback; the sooner you act, the better your odds. Card payments can often be reversed. Bank transfers and gift cards are harder, but report them to your bank too. Crypto payments usually cannot be reversed: report the wallet address and transaction ID to the exchange you sent from.
- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on ripcurlnewzealand.com, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED takes abuse reports at abuse@ordertld.com (+852.30501810). Include the address and what happened.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
"Recovery" services or agents who contact you, or ask for a fee up front, are almost always a second scam aimed at victims. Your bank's dispute process and the official reporting services never charge a fee in advance.
Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
ripcurlnewzealand.com is an online shop that uses the Rip Curl name, logo and a New Zealand outlet framing to sell swimwear and surf gear in NZ$. Our review found no contact email, phone number or postal address and no named operator. The domain is about 1 year 2 months old, and independent sources list it as a fraudulent e-commerce site and in a fake-sites database. That fits a High Risk score: the technical checks are mostly clean, but the store itself looks like an unaffiliated imitation of a real brand.
Why the score is High Risk
The page shows the RIP CURL wordmark and wave logo, a hero image of a Rip Curl-branded retail building, and a banner offering free shipping and returns on orders above NZ$95. This framing implies an official New Zealand outlet, yet the rendered page shows no operator name, email, phone or postal address.
Third-party sources describe the domain as a fraudulent e-commerce site that takes payment and collects personal data, report four blocklist hits, and list a Rip Curl-named entry in the AA419 fake-sites database. A consumer-protection article also describes a Rip Curl-impersonating site with a different domain; that is a separate site and not proof about this one. We did not retrieve a specific victim report about this exact domain.
Clean technical checks versus operator risk
The browser threat feed shows no warning, the TLS certificate is valid, and the hosting IP has an abuse score of 0/100. Those results mean no browser-level malware or interception signal, not that the shop is trustworthy.
Antivirus engines are mixed: Netcraft rates the URL malicious, and alphaMountain.ai and Gridinsoft rate it suspicious, out of 93 engines. An earlier analysis from October 24, 2026 had four engines flag it. No malware or credential-harvesting behaviour was observed in the page capture itself.
The domain was registered on August 16, 2025 through CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, and no operator is disclosed on the site. A shopper's risk lies in handing personal and payment details to an unidentified seller using someone else's brand.
Why the score is 22
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 93
detectionsFresh result
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
- Malicious1
- Suspicious2
- Clean57
- Undetected33
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Netcraft - 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 - Unrated
- 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
- 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.aiSuspicious
- 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
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows the RIP CURL wordmark with the red wave logo, alongside HOME, MEN, WOMEN, KIDS and SERVICE navigation and search, account, cart (0) and wishlist icons. Top banner reads 'Free shipping and returns on all orders above NZ$95' with NZ$95 highlighted in green. Hero image shows a large Rip Curl-branded retail building with surf posters of Mick Fanning and a female surfer, used to imply a physical New Zealand storefront. No operator name, contact email, phone number or postal address is visible in the rendered viewport.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows the RIP CURL wordmark with the red wave logo, alongside HOME, MEN, WOMEN, KIDS and SERVICE navigation and search, account, cart (0) and wishlist icons.
- 02
Top banner reads 'Free shipping and returns on all orders above NZ$95' with NZ$95 highlighted in green.
- 03
Hero image shows a large Rip Curl-branded retail building with surf posters of Mick Fanning and a female surfer, used to imply a physical New Zealand storefront.
- 04
No operator name, contact email, phone number or postal address is visible in the rendered viewport.
Browser behavior
What our isolated browser recorded while it loaded the page. Host names only: no full addresses are published.
- Pop-ups
- 0
- Download attempts
- 0
- Notification prompts
- 0
- Navigations
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 4
Where the page went
- First loadripcurlnewzealand.comSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Rip Curl | Explore Swimwear And Swimsuits Curl In New Zealand Outlet
- Meta description
Purchase Rip Curl Swimwear, Bathing Suits, Clothing, T Shirts, Boardshorts In Rip Curl Outlet Store. ✔️ For Men And Women ✔️ Black Friday Sale 60%.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about-us/Read
- Privacy policy/privacy-policy/Read
- Shipping policy/shipping/Read
- Contact page/contact-us/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Rip Curl | Explore Swimwear And Swimsuits Curl In New Zealand Outlet
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
5 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
Fake Shop & Commercial Deception
Service and business model
Shop
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a shopper would do on the site
The cart, checkout and order-tracking links all stay on ripcurlnewzealand.com. A shopper would enter their name, address and payment details directly into this unnamed operator's site, with no company name or contact route shown.
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.
Account registration and login forms also run on the same host, so an email address and password would be collected there as well. The only off-site links in the graph are generic social-network homepages.
Do not buy from this site or create an account on it. For genuine Rip Curl products, go to the brand's official website, ripcurl.com. If you already paid, contact your card issuer or bank about a chargeback.
Web research findings
Independent findings for ripcurlnewzealand.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Gridinsoft (zh)open
"Ripcurlnewzealand.com 是一个欺诈性电子商务网站，通过欺骗性策略收取付款并窃取个人数据。"
- Gridinsoft (zh)open
"该网站因多个风险信号被归类为可疑商店，包括4 个黑名单命中和尚无稳定的公开用户评价历史。"
- Gridinsoft (zh)open
"该域名已于2025年8月16日 07:44通过CNOBIN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LIMITED公司注册。"
- AA419 Fake Sites Databaseopen
"Rip Curl | Rip Curl | hold | 2025-09-20 05:50 | 2025-10-15 23:31 | chincst"
- CHOICEopen
"our latest sweep for scam sites surfaced one page impersonating popular surf retailer Rip Curl with the URL ripcurlseller.com"
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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainripcurlnewzealand.com
- Redirects towww.ripcurlnewzealand.com
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesgmpg.org · fonts.googleapis.comand 6 more
Domain Timeline
- Aug 16, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.2 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 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.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Links to 20 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 62% of the registration period had passed
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
At the scan on Nov 14, 2026: 19% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for ripcurlnewzealand.com.
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://ripcurlnewzealand.com/
- 2301https://ripcurlnewzealand.com/
- 3200https://www.ripcurlnewzealand.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Grouped by what each domain is for. in page: named in the page’s HTML. contacted: the browser loaded it while rendering the page. ad list: on our aggressive-advertising list.
CDN & fonts3
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comcontacted
- gstatic.comcontacted
Platform & social7
- facebook.comin page
- gmpg.orgin page
- google.comin pagecontacted
- instagram.comin page
- pinterest.comin page
- plus.google.comin page
- twitter.comin page
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.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
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 | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 14, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
| Independent research | 5 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 14, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 14, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
- Independent research
- Result5 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 14, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is ripcurlnewzealand.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is ripcurlnewzealand.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on ripcurlnewzealand.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from ripcurlnewzealand.com?
I ordered from ripcurlnewzealand.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report ripcurlnewzealand.com?
ripcurlnewzealand.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has ripcurlnewzealand.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is ripcurlnewzealand.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the ripcurlnewzealand.com domain?
Does ripcurlnewzealand.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the ripcurlnewzealand.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Rip Curl New Zealand 'outlet' store with no named operator, flagged by security vendors and fake-site lists
ripcurlnewzealand.com is an online shop that uses the Rip Curl name, logo and a New Zealand outlet framing to sell swimwear and surf gear in NZ$. Our review found no contact email, phone number or postal address and no named operator. The domain is about 1 year 2 months old, and independent sources list it as a fraudulent e-commerce site and in a fake-sites database. That fits a High Risk score: the technical checks are mostly clean, but the store itself looks like an unaffiliated imitation of a real brand.
09 · Community
Community
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