Is saterauto.com safe?
http://saterauto.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (56 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
Saterauto is a young Shopify car-accessories store with contradictory ownership claims, a Gmail support inbox and fake-looking discount pricing, and independent scanners rate it as a likely scam.
saterauto.com sells car mats, seat-gap fillers and phone holders from a Shopify storefront, with all checkout links staying on its own domain. The problem is not malware but who is behind it and what the prices mean: the About page says the company is headquartered in Singapore with operations across North America, while the contact page gives an Australian street address and a free Gmail inbox, no phone number is listed, and the '50% OFF' badges sit next to sale prices that are higher than the regular price. Independent scanner write-ups describe it as a likely scam and mention complaints about payment without delivery, so the score lands in the High Risk band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan1 antivirus engine flagged this URLGridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026Where 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. 7 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, saterauto.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam."
- ModerateThe About page claims Singapore headquarters with North American operations, while the contact page gives an Australian street address; no operator name or registration ID is disclosed.
- ModerateThe contact page lists a free Gmail inbox (hoangtung141212@gmail.com) next to the domain mailbox, a contact pattern common to disposable storefronts.
- ModerateSale prices are displayed higher than the regular prices they supposedly discount, e.g. regular $39.95 against sale $59.95 and 'SAVE 50%' on a $109 item priced at $220.
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Typische Beschwerden betreffen Zahlung ohne Lieferung, falsche Ware oder minderwertige Fälschungen."
- Moderate1 antivirus result 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.
- MinorNo phone number appears on the captured page, leaving email as the only support channel.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no threat warning, the TLS connection is valid, and the hosting address is shared Shopify infrastructure with a zero abuse score.
- SupportsThe store publishes a refund process promising a refund to the original payment method within 10 business days after inspection, plus a domain-matching support mailbox and a postal address.
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 saterauto.com? Do this now
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- Change any password you entered
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- Report the site
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- Report the domain to its registrar
NameCheap, Inc. takes abuse reports at abuse@namecheap.com (+1.6613102107). 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
saterauto.com sells car mats, seat-gap fillers and phone holders from a Shopify storefront, with all checkout links staying on its own domain. The problem is not malware but who is behind it and what the prices mean: the About page says the company is headquartered in Singapore with operations across North America, while the contact page gives an Australian street address and a free Gmail inbox, no phone number is listed, and the '50% OFF' badges sit next to sale prices that are higher than the regular price. Independent scanner write-ups describe it as a likely scam and mention complaints about payment without delivery, so the score lands in the High Risk band.
Who runs the store is unclear and the contact route is weak
The About page states the business has 'headquarters in Singapore and operations across North America', but the contact page lists a single address in Goodooga, New South Wales, Australia, and gives hoangtung141212@gmail.com as the email. Those two descriptions do not fit together, and no company registration or operator name is disclosed anywhere we reviewed.
A free Gmail inbox listed next to a domain mailbox is a contact pattern shared by many throwaway storefronts, and the captured page shows no phone number at all, so a buyer with a delivery or refund problem has only email to rely on.
The domain itself is only 347 days old, so there is no long trading history to offset the inconsistent identity claims.
Discount badges that contradict the prices printed beside them
One product block shows 'Regular price $39.95' twice and then 'Sale price $59.95' — the sale price is higher than the regular price it is supposedly discounted from. A second block advertises '🚗 50% OFF Today Only 🔥' and 'SAVE 50%' on car mats listed at 'Regular price From $109.00' with 'Sale price $220.00'.
The same merchandising uses permanent urgency framing, including a '🔥 LIMITED TIME OFFER' decal listing and a '250th Anniversary' collection, which is the standard pressure pattern of a dropshipping-style storefront rather than a shop with a real inventory and price history.
Independent scanner write-ups reach the same conclusion from the outside: one rates the site's trust score as very low and calls it a likely scam, and another summarises typical complaints as payment without delivery, wrong goods or low-quality counterfeits.
Clean connection, but a flagged reputation
Nothing technical points to malware or phishing: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the encrypted connection is valid, and the hosting address is shared Shopify infrastructure with a zero abuse score. The checkout and cart links all stay on saterauto.com, and the only off-site link is a Shopify legal page.
The adverse technical signal is a saved antivirus result in which one engine marked the URL suspicious; the rest were clean, so it is a single-vendor heuristic rather than a confirmed detection. Independent write-ups also repeat a 'possible malware' label from that same scanner, which is reputation, not a demonstrated infection.
On the positive side, the store does publish a 30-day-style returns and refunds process promising a refund to the original payment method within 10 business days after inspection, and it lists a support mailbox on its own domain alongside a postal address. Those policies are worth citing, but they do not resolve the conflicting location claims or the misleading price labels.
Why the score is 38
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, saterauto.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam.".
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 2026 - stale
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 - 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 - Unrated
- 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 - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- BitDefenderwebmail
- Googleretail
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 a car-outline logo with the wordmark 'Saterauto' and navigation items HOME, Best Seller, Contact, Track Order, plus search, account and cart icons. Hero banner reads 'Saterauto — Upgrade Your Drive' with 'Premium Auto Accessories for Style, Comfort & Protection' and a gold 'Shop Now' button, over a staged photo of car mats, steering wheel, seat cushion, phone holder and branded bottles. Four small icon badges under the hero read 'Premium Quality', 'Perfect Fit Guaranteed', 'Enhance Style & Comfort' and 'Protect What Matters'. Below the hero a section heading 'Top Categories' is visible with category tiles beginning (Kitchen, Car, Pet, 250th Anniversary).
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a car-outline logo with the wordmark 'Saterauto' and navigation items HOME, Best Seller, Contact, Track Order, plus search, account and cart icons.
- 02
Hero banner reads 'Saterauto — Upgrade Your Drive' with 'Premium Auto Accessories for Style, Comfort & Protection' and a gold 'Shop Now' button, over a staged photo of car mats, steering wheel, seat cushion, phone holder and branded bottles.
- 03
Four small icon badges under the hero read 'Premium Quality', 'Perfect Fit Guaranteed', 'Enhance Style & Comfort' and 'Protect What Matters'.
- 04
Below the hero a section heading 'Top Categories' is visible with category tiles beginning (Kitchen, Car, Pet, 250th Anniversary).
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Saterauto
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- 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
Saterauto
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 56 antivirus results.
What independent research found
5 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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 contact page lists a free Gmail inbox (hoangtung141212@gmail.com) next to the domain mailbox, a contact pattern common to disposable storefronts.
- 02The About page claims Singapore headquarters with North American operations, while the contact page gives an Australian street address; no operator name or registration ID is disclosed.
- 03No phone number appears on the captured page, leaving email as the only support channel.
Web research findings
Independent findings for saterauto.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Gridinsoft (Portuguese URL scanner page)open
"Saterauto.com é um site de e-commerce fraudulento que aceita pagamentos e rouba dados pessoais através de táticas enganosas."
- Gridinsoft (Portuguese URL scanner page)open
"Este domínio foi registrado em 25 de novembro de 2025 às 08:26 pela empresa NameCheap, Inc. e as informações sobre a titularidade não estão disponíveis publicamente."
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, saterauto.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam."
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website has been reported by Gridinsoft as possible malware"
- Gridinsoft (German URL scanner page)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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainsaterauto.com
- Redirects tosaterauto.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 25, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 8, 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 phone number listed on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@saterauto.com).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for saterauto.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.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
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
- 1301http://saterauto.com/
- 2200https://saterauto.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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result 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.
2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, saterauto.com has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam." · The About page claims Singapore headquarters with North American operations, while the contact page gives an Australian street address; no operator name or registration ID is disclosed.
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 | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Independent research | 5 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Independent research
- Result5 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is saterauto.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is saterauto.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on saterauto.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from saterauto.com?
I ordered from saterauto.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report saterauto.com?
saterauto.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has saterauto.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is saterauto.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the saterauto.com domain?
Does saterauto.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the saterauto.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Saterauto is a young Shopify car-accessories store with contradictory ownership claims, a Gmail support inbox and fake-looking discount pricing, and independent scanners rate it as a likely scam.
saterauto.com sells car mats, seat-gap fillers and phone holders from a Shopify storefront, with all checkout links staying on its own domain. The problem is not malware but who is behind it and what the prices mean: the About page says the company is headquartered in Singapore with operations across North America, while the contact page gives an Australian street address and a free Gmail inbox, no phone number is listed, and the '50% OFF' badges sit next to sale prices that are higher than the regular price. Independent scanner write-ups describe it as a likely scam and mention complaints about payment without delivery, so the score lands in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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