Shop shows non-delivery red flags
Real sneaker retailer with physical stores but repeated complaints of order errors, slow shipping, and poor customer service on review sites. Several red flags typical of non-delivery shops are present. Don't pay by crypto or wire, and keep the chargeback window in mind.
Is socialstatuspgh.com legit or a scam?
Real sneaker retailer with physical stores but repeated complaints of order errors, slow shipping, and poor customer service on review sites.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents as an established menswear and footwear store selling major brands through a Shopify platform with valid SSL and clean technical scans. Our research found four scam reports plus ten total complaints across independent review aggregator, Yelp, and Reddit describing mismatched shipments, ignored emails, and refund difficulties. Positive signals include physical store locations in multiple cities and an active Instagram account with 175k followers. One Reddit user reported eventually receiving an order despite delays. The combination of real business presence with consistent service complaints leads to a suspicious rating rather than outright malicious.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for socialstatuspgh.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official site for Social Status sneaker and apparel boutique with physical locations in Pittsburgh (East Liberty and Downtown), Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Atlanta, Houston, Tampa and others.
- Instagram @thesocialstatus has 175K followers; active collaborations including Nike releases.
- Trustpilot: 20 reviews, average 2.8/5; multiple complaints of wrong items shipped, no responses to emails, refund issues.
- Yelp: 3.0/5 average from 105 reviews across locations; several accusations of scams, non-delivery, poor customer service.
- 2022 Reddit post details raffle controversy involving mismatched advertised products, customer silencing in Discord, and suspicions of backdooring by parent Whitaker Group.
- Some Reddit users report receiving orders (slow shipping noted) and using site for legitimate sneaker releases/raffles.
- Contact email listed as info@socialstatuspgh.com; no domain age or registration records surfaced in searches.
- Trustpilotopen
"SCAM ALERT ! This in NOT a legitimate company. My son ordered me a ..."
- Trustpilotopen
"I purchased a pair of shoes from Social Status for $140.00. They sent me two different shoes and adamantly refuse to exchange them for the correct shoes. ... This is fraud."
- Yelpopen
"THIS IS A SCAM COMPANY AND DO NOT, I REPEAT DO NOT ORDER FROM THEM. THEY WILL NOT KEEP THEIR WORD, A BUNCH TO FRAUD, THIEVING, NOT TRUST WORTHY SNAKES ..."
- Redditopen
"do NOT shop at Social Status. There's something VERY weird and sketchy going on with them. ... Their business practices are suspicious."
- Redditopen
"Yes, I ordered my 500 tacticles through them. They take pitifully long to ship but you can trust them, I ordered on Aug 24 and they didn't get to me until ..."
independent review aggregator contains multiple reviews calling the company a scam and describing incorrect shoes shipped with no resolution. Yelp reviews echo accusations of fraud and non-delivery. Reddit threads from 2022 and later discuss raffle controversies and slow or problematic orders, though one user reported eventually receiving items.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://socialstatuspgh.com/
- 2301https://socialstatuspgh.com/
- 3200https://www.socialstatuspgh.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Page contains e-commerce copy (cart / checkout / shipping).
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
Fake-shop warning signs
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Treat socialstatuspgh.com as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review marked socialstatuspgh.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- socialstatuspgh.com currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. socialstatuspgh.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 87 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report socialstatuspgh.com as clean.
- No. socialstatuspgh.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- socialstatuspgh.com resolves to an IP operated by Shopify, Inc. in CA (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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