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How we checked

Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities

  • Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
  • Google Safe Browsing: completed
  • page reading · limited: did not fully complete
  • page capture: completed
  • domain records: completed
  • web research: completed
Verdict

Anonymous catalog storefront on a shared shop platform sells goods only through a WhatsApp chat, with no verifiable seller identity.

This is a small storefront hosted on the wgstores.com platform, presenting itself as 'Luxury Factory' and showing a product catalog. Its own visible text tells visitors to contact the seller on WhatsApp for prices and payment, so there is no normal checkout, no published business identity, and no verifiable address. Technical checks are clean — no malware or phishing detections and a valid encrypted connection — but the commercial setup is opaque: an anonymous operator on a 212-day-old parent domain, transacting off-platform. That combination of clean infrastructure with an unverifiable, chat-only seller places the site in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.

Do not send money to this seller through WhatsApp. There is no verifiable company, address, or checkout behind the storefront, and the parent platform is only months old. If you still want to buy, ask for a registered business name, a physical address, and a payment method with buyer protection, and treat a refusal or pressure to pay by chat as a reason to walk away.

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shop00189828.wgstores.com: Moderate Risk — MalwareTips website safety report

Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

Score explained

Why 52/100

Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 3 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.

What pulled the score down

  1. MinorThe page's own text directs visitors to WhatsApp for prices and payment information, moving the whole transaction off-platform with no buyer protections.
  2. MinorThe page is script-built, so its contact details were not visible to the page reader and were not reviewed; no business registration or address could be confirmed.
  3. MinorThe registrable parent domain wgstores.com is 212 days old, indicating a new shared storefront platform.

What pushed the score up

  • SupportsNo malware or phishing detections were found, Safe Browsing raised no warning, and the connection is encrypted.

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.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

This is a small storefront hosted on the wgstores.com platform, presenting itself as 'Luxury Factory' and showing a product catalog. Its own visible text tells visitors to contact the seller on WhatsApp for prices and payment, so there is no normal checkout, no published business identity, and no verifiable address. Technical checks are clean — no malware or phishing detections and a valid encrypted connection — but the commercial setup is opaque: an anonymous operator on a 212-day-old parent domain, transacting off-platform. That combination of clean infrastructure with an unverifiable, chat-only seller places the site in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.

A catalog with no checkout — payment happens in a private chat

The only visible instruction on the page is a note thanking visitors for checking the product catalog, stating worldwide shipping in 10-15 days, and directing anyone who wants prices or payment information to contact the seller on WhatsApp. There is no on-site cart, no published price list, and no standard payment page described in the evidence.

Moving the entire transaction into a private messaging channel removes the normal buyer protections that come with a card or platform checkout. The buyer cannot see terms, a refund policy, or a company behind the sale before sending money, and the seller's identity is never established on the page itself.

No verifiable operator, and the contact details were not readable

The page builds its content with scripts, so its own contact details were not visible to the page reader and were not reviewed. That means no business registration, postal address, or named owner could be confirmed from the site's own pages.

The storefront sits on a subdomain of wgstores.com, a shared hosting platform for many independent shops. The registrable parent domain is only 212 days old, which does not show how long this particular subdomain has existed but does mean the platform itself is new. A new shared platform plus an anonymous, chat-only seller is a weak foundation for a purchase.

Clean technical checks do not make the seller trustworthy

The saved security checks are clean: zero malicious and zero suspicious detections across 93 engines, no browser threat feed threat warning, and a valid encrypted connection. Nothing in the evidence shows malware, a phishing page, or a credential-harvesting form.

Those results only mean the site is not currently flagged for malicious code. They say nothing about whether the operator will ship goods, honour a refund, or protect a buyer who pays a stranger through a chat app. The risk here is commercial and operator-side, not technical.

Why the score is 52

The score combines saved deterministic evidence with the grounded analysis available for this report. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

0/ 93

No detections

Fresh result

No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL

No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
0
Total
93
All 93 engine results
  • 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
  • Gridinsoft - 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 ThreatSeekerinformation technology

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

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
shop00189828.wgstores.com
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Thanks for checking out our product catalog. We shipworldwide with delivery in 10-15 days. If you need to knowmore about prices andpayment information, pleasecontact me on WhatsApp. Thanks

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Thanks for checking out our product catalog. We shipworldwide with delivery in 10-15 days. If you need to knowmore about prices andpayment information, pleasecontact me on WhatsApp. Thanks

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    The captured page appears to offer a shop service.

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  4. 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

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The page's own text directs visitors to WhatsApp for prices and payment information, moving the whole transaction off-platform with no buyer protections.
  2. 02The page is script-built, so its contact details were not visible to the page reader and were not reviewed; no business registration or address could be confirmed.
  3. 03The registrable parent domain wgstores.com is 212 days old, indicating a new shared storefront platform.

Web research findings

Independent findings for shop00189828.wgstores.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.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for shop00189828.wgstores.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.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
Not listedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

  1. Domainshop00189828.wgstores.com
  2. Redirects toa202109251423253290001898.wgstores.com
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencesxcimg.szwego.com · static.szwego.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Mar 30, 2026
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 7 months old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 28, 2026
    Saved security review — Rated Moderate Risk

    The evidence in this saved scan is mixed or incomplete; the completed checks 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.

What We Found
Contact details were not reviewed (the page text was not read in full)
Emails on site's domainNot reviewed
Phone numbersNot reviewed
Postal addressNot reviewed
Linked social profiles0

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age7 months old
RegistrarNetwork Solutions, LLC
Registrar IANA ID2
RegisteredMar 30, 2026
ExpiresMar 30, 2027
Last updatedMar 31, 2026
RegistrantNot published (privacy or GDPR redaction)
Owner privacyUnknown (owner not published)
Nameserversalexandra.ns.cloudflare.comcesar.ns.cloudflare.comDNS by Cloudflare

Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.

Registrar abuse contactdomain.operations@web.com · +1.8777228662
Verified ownerNo owner has verified this domain on MalwareTips
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE2
IssuedSep 24, 2026 (34 days before this scan)
ExpiresDec 23, 2026 (55d)
Self-signedNo
Trusted chainYes: our check verified the issuer chain
Matches hostnameYes

Certificate issued for wgstores.com.

Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server IP104.18.54.118 · shared Cloudflare edge

A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.

Server locationUnited States (US)
Web servercloudflare
PopularityRadar ranks wgstores.com, not this subdomain
Technologies and payments

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

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1302http://shop00189828.wgstores.com/
  • 2206https://a202109251423253290001898.wgstores.com/weshop/store/A202109251423253290001898

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentpartial
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

unknown

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

No confirmed evidence in this dimension.

Operator / customer risk

unknown

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

The page's own text directs visitors to WhatsApp for prices and payment information, moving the whole transaction off-platform with no buyer protections. · The page is script-built, so its contact details were not visible to the page reader and were not reviewed; no business registration or address could be confirmed.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result0 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 28, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 28, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

The evidence is mixed or incomplete, so treat this site as unverified until you can confirm who runs it.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    Do not send money to this seller through WhatsApp. There is no verifiable company, address, or checkout behind the storefront, and the parent platform is only months old. If you still want to buy, ask for a registered business name, a physical address, and a payment method with buyer protection, and treat a refusal or pressure to pay by chat as a reason to walk away.

  2. Treat shop00189828.wgstores.com as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. Verify the business through independent channels

    Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.

  4. Never use irreversible payment methods

    Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.

  5. Share your experience

    If you have additional context, drop a comment below or post on the MalwareTips forum.

    Open

Safer Alternatives

Trying to shop safely? Use a safe option instead

Shopping for a deal? Stick to established retailers with real buyer protection — if a price looks too good to be true on an unknown store, it usually is.

  1. Amazon

    A-to-z Guarantee covers eligible orders.

  2. eBay

    Money Back Guarantee on most purchases.

  3. Walmart

    Major retailer with established returns.

  4. The brand's official site

    Search the brand name + "official site" rather than trusting an ad or unknown store.

Suggestions for safety only — not endorsements. Always verify the address bar before signing in or paying, even on well-known sites.

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 shop00189828.wgstores.com a scam or is it safe?
There isn't enough evidence yet for us to give shop00189828.wgstores.com a confident verdict, so treat it with caution. The parent domain wgstores.com is 7 months old. Until it can be independently verified, don't enter passwords, card details, or send money, and confirm the company through channels you find yourself rather than links on the site.
Is shop00189828.wgstores.com safe to use?
shop00189828.wgstores.com has a Safety Score of 52/100 (Moderate Risk). Analysis coverage is strong at 89%. Do not trust blindly; analysis may be limited.
Has shop00189828.wgstores.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
No — all 58 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network that rated it report shop00189828.wgstores.com as clean. 35 other engines had no rating for it. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
Is shop00189828.wgstores.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — shop00189828.wgstores.com is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the shop00189828.wgstores.com domain?
shop00189828.wgstores.com is a subdomain of wgstores.com, which is 7 months old, registered on March 30, 2026 through Network Solutions, LLC. That is the parent domain's registration age: it does not show how long shop00189828.wgstores.com itself has existed or who runs it, so it is weighed alongside the other checks.
Does shop00189828.wgstores.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — shop00189828.wgstores.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, valid for another 55 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is shop00189828.wgstores.com hosted?
shop00189828.wgstores.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the shop00189828.wgstores.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 28, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about shop00189828.wgstores.com has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
52/100
Moderate Risk

Anonymous catalog storefront on a shared shop platform sells goods only through a WhatsApp chat, with no verifiable seller identity.

Saved captureshop00189828.wgstores.comCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

This is a small storefront hosted on the wgstores.com platform, presenting itself as 'Luxury Factory' and showing a product catalog. Its own visible text tells visitors to contact the seller on WhatsApp for prices and payment, so there is no normal checkout, no published business identity, and no verifiable address. Technical checks are clean — no malware or phishing detections and a valid encrypted connection — but the commercial setup is opaque: an anonymous operator on a 212-day-old parent domain, transacting off-platform. That combination of clean infrastructure with an unverifiable, chat-only seller places the site in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.

Recommended actionDo not send money to this seller through WhatsApp. There is no verifiable company, address, or checkout behind the storefront, and the parent platform is only months old. If you still want to buy, ask for a registered business name, a physical address, and a payment method with buyer protection, and treat a refusal or pressure to pay by chat as a reason to walk away.
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