Is smartbuystore.shop safe?
http://smartbuystore.shop/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (61 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
SmartBuy is a brand-clone storefront: its only contact address sits on another company's domain and its pages are built on a known clone-shop network.
smartbuystore.shop describes itself as an electronics and smart-home retailer selling branded goods such as a Taurus steam iron and a Black & Decker toaster, with a 'Founded in 2015' About page. The store's only contact mailbox is support@smartbuy.com, which sits on smartbuy.com rather than the store's own domain, and its pages are served from the storefront build of a known brand-clone shop network. The registrable domain is 117 days old, which does not fit an eleven-year history, and no operator name, phone number or postal address is disclosed. That combination puts the site in the High Risk band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan14 antivirus engines flagged this URLalphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, FortinetSaved antivirus result from Nov 1, 2026At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
3 months old
Registered Jul 15, 2026Expires Jul 15, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Dec 12, 2026 (32d)Hosting
United States (US)
Beijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., LtdPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
14/61
14 antivirus engines flagged this URLSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 10, 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 30/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 6 findings pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
- Start39
- -5
- -4
- Score30
What pulled the score down
- Decisive10 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.-5 pts
- StrongThe store's only contact address is on smartbuy.com, the domain of the brand its own name copies, and its pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network.-4 pts
- MinorThe domain is 117 days old while the About page claims the business was founded in 2015.
- MinorNo contact email uses the site's own domain.
- MinorNo phone number is listed on the captured pages.
- MinorNo operator postal address is visible on the captured pages.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for the site.
- SupportsThe hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 39 to 30 and split those 9 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
Lost money or shared details on smartbuystore.shop? 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 smartbuystore.shop, 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
Dynadot Inc. takes abuse reports at abuse@dynadot.com (+1.6502620100). 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
smartbuystore.shop describes itself as an electronics and smart-home retailer selling branded goods such as a Taurus steam iron and a Black & Decker toaster, with a 'Founded in 2015' About page. The store's only contact mailbox is support@smartbuy.com, which sits on smartbuy.com rather than the store's own domain, and its pages are served from the storefront build of a known brand-clone shop network. The registrable domain is 117 days old, which does not fit an eleven-year history, and no operator name, phone number or postal address is disclosed. That combination puts the site in the High Risk band.
The storefront is a known clone build with a borrowed contact address
The strongest finding is structural. The store's only contact address is support@smartbuy.com, a mailbox on smartbuy.com — the domain of the brand whose name the store copies — and the pages are a Next.js app served under /_s/_n, the storefront build used by a known brand-clone shop network. A shop that sells branded electronics but cannot receive mail on its own domain has no verifiable counterparty behind an order.
Nothing else on the site fills that gap. No contact email uses the store's own domain, no phone number appears on the captured pages, and no operator postal address is shown. The privacy policy does state that name, email, shipping address and payment information are collected and that promotional messages are sent, so a buyer is handing over both money and personal data to an unidentified seller.
The About page claims the business was founded in 2015, but the registrable domain was created only 117 days before this review. An eleven-year retail history cannot sit on a four-month-old domain, so the stated track record is not supported by the domain record.
Clean connection checks do not offset the operator problem
The connection itself is fine: the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 across zero saved reports. Those results mean no live compromise was detected, not that the shop is trustworthy.
A saved antivirus aggregate, roughly nine days old, shows ten independent engine families returning adverse results, including phishing labels from several vendors and malicious verdicts from others. Because that observation is stale and no live compromise was confirmed, we treat it as a category signal that lines up with the clone-storefront finding rather than as proof of an active infection.
Why the score is 30
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
14/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from November 1, 2026 - stale
14 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 11
- Suspicious
- 3
- Total
- 93
- Malicious11
- Suspicious3
- Clean47
- Undetected32
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | phishing |
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| KasperskyMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| SophosMalicious | phishing |
| VIPREMalicious | phishing |
| WebrootMalicious | malicious |
| ESETSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
| LevelBlueSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - phishing - Malicious
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- Kaspersky - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- Sophos - phishing - Malicious
- VIPRE - phishing - Malicious
- Webroot - Malicious
- ESET - Suspicious
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- LevelBlue - 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
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - 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
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- 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
- 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
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiPhishing, Shopping
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerphishing and other frauds
- Sophosphishing and fraud
- WebrootPhishing and Other Frauds
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
Top bar reads 'Free Worldwide Shipping on All Orders!' with a 'Shop Now' link and a close button. Header shows a small sun-style logo with the wordmark 'SmartBuy', a 'Search products...' field, 'Account' link and a cart icon. Category menu lists Promotions, Apple, Mobile & Tablets, Computers & IT, TV & Audio, Large Appliances, Small Appliances, Home & Tools. Hero image shows a large TV displaying a 'Fallout' 75" promo with streaming app icons, overlaid with Arabic-language 'valu*' promotional graphics, and the headline 'Smart Living Starts Here' with a 'Shop Now' button. The hero banner artwork is an Arabic-language third-party retailer (valu*) TV advertisement, not original SmartBuy merchandising, while the site copy is English.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Top bar reads 'Free Worldwide Shipping on All Orders!' with a 'Shop Now' link and a close button.
- 02
Header shows a small sun-style logo with the wordmark 'SmartBuy', a 'Search products...' field, 'Account' link and a cart icon.
- 03
Category menu lists Promotions, Apple, Mobile & Tablets, Computers & IT, TV & Audio, Large Appliances, Small Appliances, Home & Tools.
- 04
Hero image shows a large TV displaying a 'Fallout' 75" promo with streaming app icons, overlaid with Arabic-language 'valu*' promotional graphics, and the headline 'Smart Living Starts Here' with a 'Shop Now' button.
- 05
The hero banner artwork is an Arabic-language third-party retailer (valu*) TV advertisement, not original SmartBuy merchandising, while the site copy is English.
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 loadsmartbuystore.shopSame site
- On its ownsmartbuystore.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
Home | SmartBuy
- Meta description
Home
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
Home | SmartBuy
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
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 privacy policy states the site collects name, email, shipping address and payment information and sends promotional communications.
- Also 9 listed under Why 30/100 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 'Cart' stays on smartbuystore.shop; the observed commercial links all resolve to same-site paths such as /store and /cart, and no cross-domain checkout or payment redirect appeared in the link graph. The exposure is therefore not a redirect to a lookalike payment page but the checkout itself, run by an operator the site never identifies.
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.
At that checkout the site's own privacy policy says it collects name, email, shipping address and payment information. Combined with a contact address hosted on another company's domain and no phone or postal address, a buyer has no reliable route to reach the seller if an order goes wrong.
The storefront also leans on promises it cannot back up: 'Free Worldwide Shipping on All Orders!', 3-5 business day standard shipping, a 30-day return policy and a claim that every product is 100% authentic and sourced directly from manufacturers, alongside steep discounts such as a Taurus steam iron cut from $28.21 to $16.93. Those terms are only as good as the seller behind them.
Do not enter card details or a shipping address on smartbuystore.shop. The storefront is built on a known brand-clone shop network, its only contact address belongs to another company's domain, and it claims an eleven-year history on a domain registered 117 days ago. If you want one of these branded appliances, buy from a retailer you can identify, phone and hold accountable.
Web research findings
Independent findings for smartbuystore.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 smartbuystore.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
- Domainsmartbuystore.shop
- Redirects tosmartbuystore.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Jul 15, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 3 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 10, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
smartbuystore.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 10, 2026: 32% 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 10, 2026: 64% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for smartbuystore.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://smartbuystore.shop/
- 2200https://smartbuystore.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 | 14 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 10, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 5 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result14 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Nov 1, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result5 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is smartbuystore.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is smartbuystore.shop safe to use?
What should I do if I already gave my details to smartbuystore.shop?
Can I get my money back from smartbuystore.shop?
I ordered from smartbuystore.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report smartbuystore.shop?
Why does smartbuystore.shop look legitimate if it's a scam?
Has smartbuystore.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is smartbuystore.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the smartbuystore.shop domain?
Does smartbuystore.shop have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the smartbuystore.shop report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
SmartBuy is a brand-clone storefront: its only contact address sits on another company's domain and its pages are built on a known clone-shop network.
smartbuystore.shop describes itself as an electronics and smart-home retailer selling branded goods such as a Taurus steam iron and a Black & Decker toaster, with a 'Founded in 2015' About page. The store's only contact mailbox is support@smartbuy.com, which sits on smartbuy.com rather than the store's own domain, and its pages are served from the storefront build of a known brand-clone shop network. The registrable domain is 117 days old, which does not fit an eleven-year history, and no operator name, phone number or postal address is disclosed. That combination puts the site in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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