Is shotvet.com safe?

http://shotvet.com/

Moderate RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete6 of 6 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

ShotVet is a real-looking mobile pet-vaccine clinic with a prepay funnel, but consumer complaints and vendor flags raise moderate risk.

ShotVet presents itself as a pop-up veterinary clinic offering affordable preventative pet care, with a 'Packages & Pricing' section that lets visitors prepay through FastPaws before attending an event. The domain is long-standing and the connection is encrypted, but independent research found a 2.2-star rating from 52 reviews and a specific complaint about a missed PetSmart event, while antivirus engines returned one malicious and three suspicious detections. The site also lacks a direct contact email on the captured page. These mixed signals place it in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.

If you are considering prepaying for a ShotVet clinic, treat the prepayment as a real financial commitment: check recent reviews, confirm the event is actually scheduled, and keep a record of any text confirmations. Because the site has a history of missed appointments and billing complaints, avoid prepaying more than you are willing to lose, and prefer paying at the event if that option is available.
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Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan4 antivirus engines flagged this URLRising, alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft

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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.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

ShotVet presents itself as a pop-up veterinary clinic offering affordable preventative pet care, with a 'Packages & Pricing' section that lets visitors prepay through FastPaws before attending an event. The domain is long-standing and the connection is encrypted, but independent research found a 2.2-star rating from 52 reviews and a specific complaint about a missed PetSmart event, while antivirus engines returned one malicious and three suspicious detections. The site also lacks a direct contact email on the captured page. These mixed signals place it in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.

How the prepay funnel works

The site's own copy tells visitors they can prepay using FastPaws under the 'Packages and Pricing' tab and then be 'completely hands off' when they arrive at an event. The same page claims total price transparency and no hard pressured sales tactics.

The commercial call-to-action graph is entirely same-site: the 'Packages & Pricing' and 'Packages and pricing' blocks all point back to shotvet.com, so there is no cross-domain checkout or affiliate redirect visible in the captured evidence.

Operator and customer-experience risk

Independent research found a 2.2-star rating from 52 reviews, with 37% likely to recommend and 86% saying they will not use the service again. A separate complaint describes ShotVet not showing up for a PetSmart Walnut Creek event on 4/20 despite text confirmations and a promised supervisor callback that never came.

The captured page did not include a direct contact email address, which makes it harder for a dissatisfied customer to reach the operator through the site itself.

Technical checks and vendor flags

Antivirus scanning returned one malicious and three suspicious detections across 93 engines, with one independent antivirus family reporting an adverse result. These are moderate-severity flags, not proof of a specific attack on visitors.

On the supportive side, the registrable domain is 5558 days old, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. These facts reduce the likelihood of a brand-new throwaway domain but do not erase the operator and customer-experience concerns.

Why the score is 48

1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result. 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

4/ 93

detections

Fresh result

4 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
1
Suspicious
3
Total
93
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
RisingMaliciousmalicious
alphaMountain.aiSuspicioussuspicious
Forcepoint ThreatSeekerSuspicioussuspicious
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 93 engine results
  • Rising - Malicious
  • alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
  • Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - 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
  • 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
  • Netcraft - Unrated
  • OpenPhish - Clean
  • Orcapot - Unrated
  • PhishFort - Unrated
  • Phishing Database - Clean
  • Phishtank - Clean
  • PREBYTES - Clean
  • PrecisionSec - Unrated
  • Quick Heal - Clean
  • Quttera - 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

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
shotvet.com
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

Why pay more? Pop-up veterinary clinics for affordable preventative pet care.

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    Why pay more? Pop-up veterinary clinics for affordable preventative pet care.

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

    ShotVet Affordable Vaccinations, and Pet Care Near You

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 60 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.

  4. 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

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01The site encourages visitors to prepay for packages through FastPaws before attending an event.
  2. 02One customer complaint on a public review site: "ShotVet has a 2.2 star rating from 52 reviews, with 37% likely to recommend and 86% saying they will not use the service again; consumers report overall…"
  3. 03Antivirus engines returned one malicious and three suspicious detections, with one independent antivirus family reporting an adverse result.

Web research findings

Independent findings for shotvet.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
2 complaints or warnings
Complaints and warnings (2)
Direct quotes from public complaints, negative reviews, warnings and security listings.
  • PissedConsumeropen

    "ShotVet has a 2.2 star rating from 52 reviews, with 37% likely to recommend and 86% saying they will not use the service again; consumers report overall dissatisfaction."

  • PissedConsumeropen

    "ShotVet did not show up for a PetSmart Walnut Creek event on 4/20 despite text confirmations and a promised supervisor callback that never came."

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
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. Domainshotvet.com
  2. Redirects towww.shotvet.com
  3. Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
  4. Referencescdn11.bigcommerce.com · fonts.googleapis.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Aug 7, 2011
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 15 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 25, 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
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbers407-792-0384
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
One contact red flag
  • No direct contact email found on the captured page.
  • Phone number listed (407-792-0384).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age15 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy.com, LLC
RegisteredAug 7, 2011
ExpiresAug 7, 2027
Owner privacyUnknown
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1
ExpiresDec 29, 2026 (64d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingCloudflare, Inc.
Server locationUS
Web servercloudflare

Redirect Chain

Hops
2
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://shotvet.com/
  • 2301https://shotvet.com/
  • 3200https://www.shotvet.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file24
ISPCloudflare, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

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 contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

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

Technical threat

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

1 independent antivirus family reported an adverse result.

Operator / customer risk

suspicious

Complaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.

One customer complaint on a public review site: "ShotVet has a 2.2 star rating from 52 reviews, with 37% likely to recommend and 86% saying they will not use the service again; consumers report overall…" · No direct contact email was found on the captured page.

Source coverage and freshness

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

Antivirus
Result4 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 24, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 25, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 25, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 25, 2026
Independent research
Result2 independent findings were saved
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 25, 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

    If you are considering prepaying for a ShotVet clinic, treat the prepayment as a real financial commitment: check recent reviews, confirm the event is actually scheduled, and keep a record of any text confirmations. Because the site has a history of missed appointments and billing complaints, avoid prepaying more than you are willing to lose, and prefer paying at the event if that option is available.

  2. Treat shotvet.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 shotvet.com a scam or is it safe?
There isn't enough evidence yet for us to give shotvet.com a confident verdict, so treat it with caution. The domain is 15 years 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 shotvet.com safe to use?
shotvet.com has a Safety Score of 48/100 (Moderate Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Do not trust blindly; the evidence is inconclusive.
Has shotvet.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 4 of 93 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged shotvet.com, 1 of them as outright malicious. None of these detections came from the engines we treat as highest-confidence, so they are weighed alongside the other checks rather than on their own.
Is shotvet.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — shotvet.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 shotvet.com domain?
shotvet.com is 15 years old, registered on August 7, 2011 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
Does shotvet.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — shotvet.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, valid for another 64 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 shotvet.com hosted?
shotvet.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 shotvet.com report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 25, 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 shotvet.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
48/100
Moderate Risk

ShotVet is a real-looking mobile pet-vaccine clinic with a prepay funnel, but consumer complaints and vendor flags raise moderate risk.

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

ShotVet presents itself as a pop-up veterinary clinic offering affordable preventative pet care, with a 'Packages & Pricing' section that lets visitors prepay through FastPaws before attending an event. The domain is long-standing and the connection is encrypted, but independent research found a 2.2-star rating from 52 reviews and a specific complaint about a missed PetSmart event, while antivirus engines returned one malicious and three suspicious detections. The site also lacks a direct contact email on the captured page. These mixed signals place it in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.

Recommended actionIf you are considering prepaying for a ShotVet clinic, treat the prepayment as a real financial commitment: check recent reviews, confirm the event is actually scheduled, and keep a record of any text confirmations. Because the site has a history of missed appointments and billing complaints, avoid prepaying more than you are willing to lose, and prefer paying at the event if that option is available.
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09 · Community

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