Is sfsporting.shop safe?
http://sfsporting.shop/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (60 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
sfsporting.shop is a 95-day-old clone of the New Zealand Silver Fern sports brand, built on a known brand-clone shop network and contactable only through a mailbox on another company's domain.
The site sells rugby and netball gear under the "Silver Fern" name and claims "Trusted by champions since 1950", but the domain was registered only about three months ago and the store's only contact address, support@silverfern.com, sits on a different company's domain rather than its own. Its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. No operator name, registration, phone number or postal address is disclosed, so a buyer has no verifiable counterparty. Saved antivirus results also include phishing and fraud verdicts. The score is held in the High Risk band because the site's own pages match a known fake-shop operation.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan4 antivirus engines flagged this URLNetcraft, Webroot, alphaMountain.ai, GridinsoftSaved antivirus result from Nov 10, 2026At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
3 months old
Registered Aug 9, 2026Expires Aug 9, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 5, 2027 (53d)Hosting
United States (US)
Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., LtdPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
4/60
4 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 13, 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 28/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
- Start38
- -5
- -3
- -2
- Score28
What pulled the score down
- StrongThe store's only contact address is on another company's domain (silverfern.com), and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network.-5 pts
- Strong2 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.-3 pts
- ModerateThe site claims "Trusted by champions since 1950" while the registrable domain is only 95 days old.-2 pts
- MinorNo contact email on the site's own domain, no phone number and no operator postal address appear on the captured pages.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe store publishes a contact form, a 30-day return window and shipping tiers, giving it the surface of a normal retailer.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 38 to 28 and split those 10 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
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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
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- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The site sells rugby and netball gear under the "Silver Fern" name and claims "Trusted by champions since 1950", but the domain was registered only about three months ago and the store's only contact address, support@silverfern.com, sits on a different company's domain rather than its own. Its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. No operator name, registration, phone number or postal address is disclosed, so a buyer has no verifiable counterparty. Saved antivirus results also include phishing and fraud verdicts. The score is held in the High Risk band because the site's own pages match a known fake-shop operation.
A heritage claim on a three-month-old domain, with a borrowed contact address
The homepage tells visitors the gear is "Trusted by champions since 1950" and the header carries a Silver Fern wordmark with a fern and ball glyph. The registrable domain, however, is only 95 days old, about three months, registered in August 2026. A storefront claiming seven decades of history on a domain this new is the central contradiction here.
The only contact mailbox found is support@silverfern.com, which is on silverfern.com, not on sfsporting.shop. The pages are also served from the storefront build of a known brand-clone shop network. Together these show the store was assembled from another operation's template and is using a mailbox on a domain it does not own.
Independent research describes the genuine Silver Fern as New Zealand's oldest ball manufacturer, established around 1950, selling mainly in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom through silverfernsport.co.uk. That is the brand whose history this .shop host borrows, and nothing on the captured pages shows any authorisation from it.
Clean encryption and a clean browser check do not make the seller verifiable
The technical layer is partly clean: the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. The hosting IP also carries an abuse confidence score of 0 out of 100 across no saved reports. None of that says anything about who is selling the goods.
Saved antivirus results are less reassuring: two independent families returned adverse verdicts, with Netcraft and Webroot among them, and the saved observation is stale rather than a fresh submission. Treat those verdicts as a real signal that needs re-checking, not as a current confirmation.
On the operator side, no contact email uses the site's own domain, no phone number appears on the captured page, and no operator postal address is visible. The store publishes a contact form, a 30-day return window and shipping tiers, which gives it the surface of a normal retailer, but a buyer still has no named company, address or phone to hold responsible.
Why the score is 28
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
4/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 10, 2026 - stale
4 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 2
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
- Malicious2
- Suspicious2
- Clean56
- Undetected33
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- Netcraft - Malicious
- Webroot - 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
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
- alphaMountain.aiSuspicious
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 "SILVER FERN" wordmark logo with a fern/ball glyph, alongside search, Account and cart icons and nav items Rugby, Netball, Accessories, Other Sports, Packs & Bags. Hero image of a rugby ball on grass with overlay text "Elite Performance, New Zealand Heritage" and "Trusted by champions since 1950, our innovative gear is built for every level of play." plus a white "Shop Now" button. Below the hero a "Why Choose Us" section heading is partially visible; no prices, checkout fields or payment logos are visible in this viewport.
What the captured page showed
3 observations- 01
Header shows a "SILVER FERN" wordmark logo with a fern/ball glyph, alongside search, Account and cart icons and nav items Rugby, Netball, Accessories, Other Sports, Packs & Bags.
- 02
Hero image of a rugby ball on grass with overlay text "Elite Performance, New Zealand Heritage" and "Trusted by champions since 1950, our innovative gear is built for every level of play." plus a white "Shop Now" button.
- 03
Below the hero a "Why Choose Us" section heading is partially visible; no prices, checkout fields or payment logos are visible in this 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
- 2
- Other hosts contacted
- 2
Where the page went
- First loadsfsporting.shopSame site
- On its ownsfsporting.shopSame 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
Engineered for the most demanding sports. | Silver Fern
- Meta description
Silver Fern is a sports gear brand. New Zealand owned, we have manufactured balls since the 1950s. Now established in the UK and Australia, we sponsor leading national organisations and teams. As sports specialists innovating at every stage, our equipment is made for the toughest sports, from grassr
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/aboutRead
- Privacy policy/privacyRead
- Refund / returns policy/returnsRead
- Shipping policy/shippingRead
- Contact page/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Engineered for the most demanding sports. | Silver Fern
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 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 hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across 0 saved reports
- Also 6 listed under Why 28/100 above
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens when a visitor shops here
A visitor who clicks "Shop Now" or "Shop The Collection" lands on the store's own catalogue at sfsporting.shop/store, where every new arrival is marked down by a uniform 65 percent, for example $82.42 to $28.85. The "Cart" item leads to a same-site cart path, and no third-party payment host appeared in the captured link graph.
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.
Because the checkout stays on the same host and no cross-domain order path was observed, the exposure is not a redirect to a look-alike payment page. It is that money and personal details would go to an unnamed operator behind a borrowed brand and a borrowed mailbox, with no company, address or phone to pursue if the order never arrives.
Do not order from sfsporting.shop. If you want genuine Silver Fern gear, buy from the brand's own sites such as silverfernsport.co.uk, and check that any store you use names a company, a postal address and a phone number on its own domain before you pay.
Web research findings
Independent findings for sfsporting.shop, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for sfsporting.shop. 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.
Infrastructure map
- Domainsfsporting.shop
- Redirects tosfsporting.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Aug 9, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 13, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
sfsporting.shop 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.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 13, 2026: 26% 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 13, 2026: 41% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for sfsporting.shop.
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://sfsporting.shop/
- 2200https://sfsporting.shop/
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 & fonts2
- fonts.googleapis.comin pagecontacted
- fonts.gstatic.comin pagecontacted
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
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 | 4 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Nov 10, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 3 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 13, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result4 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 10, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result3 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 13, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is sfsporting.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is sfsporting.shop safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on sfsporting.shop — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from sfsporting.shop?
I ordered from sfsporting.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report sfsporting.shop?
sfsporting.shop looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has sfsporting.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is sfsporting.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the sfsporting.shop domain?
Does sfsporting.shop have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the sfsporting.shop report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
sfsporting.shop is a 95-day-old clone of the New Zealand Silver Fern sports brand, built on a known brand-clone shop network and contactable only through a mailbox on another company's domain.
The site sells rugby and netball gear under the "Silver Fern" name and claims "Trusted by champions since 1950", but the domain was registered only about three months ago and the store's only contact address, support@silverfern.com, sits on a different company's domain rather than its own. Its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. No operator name, registration, phone number or postal address is disclosed, so a buyer has no verifiable counterparty. Saved antivirus results also include phishing and fraud verdicts. The score is held in the High Risk band because the site's own pages match a known fake-shop operation.
09 · Community
Community
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