Is thedressingroomboutique.shop safe?
http://thedressingroomboutique.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
Clone storefront of a real Connecticut boutique, run by an undisclosed operator on a 152-day-old domain
thedressingroomboutique.shop is a Shopify-style women's fashion store that uses the name, branding and catalog of The Dressing Room Boutique, a real boutique in Wallingford and Madison, Connecticut. Its only contact address sits on the real boutique's own .com domain, its About page claims the shop was founded in 2018 while the domain is 152 days old, and no operator, phone number or postal address is disclosed anywhere on the captured pages. Independent write-ups describe this storefront as a copy of the real boutique's shop that the real boutique does not run. The technical checks are clean, but the commercial setup is a brand clone, so the score lands in the High Risk band.
Saved site captureCaptured safely during this scan12 antivirus engines flagged this URLBitDefender, CRDF, CyRadar, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeekerSaved antivirus result from Oct 11, 2026Where 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 22/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 7 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive9 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
- StrongThe store's only contact address is on thedressingroomboutique.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.-3 pts
- StrongThe store presents itself as a shop with 8 years of history, but its domain was registered only 152 days ago.-3 pts
- ModerateOne public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "This site copies The Dressing Room Boutique's online store of women's dresses and clothing, but it's part of a known scam network, and you'll find the real The…"-1 pts
- ModerateThe contact form still contains the unedited template placeholder 'john@example.com'.-2 pts
- MinorThe About page claims the shop was founded in 2018 while the domain is 152 days old, and the site's own images carry AI-generation filenames.
- MinorNo phone number, postal address or own-domain email appears on the captured pages, and published checks could not identify who runs the store.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsIndependent directory listings describe a real The Dressing Room Boutique in Wallingford, CT, in business for around 25 years — the business whose identity this storefront uses.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 34 to 22 and split those 12 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
thedressingroomboutique.shop is a Shopify-style women's fashion store that uses the name, branding and catalog of The Dressing Room Boutique, a real boutique in Wallingford and Madison, Connecticut. Its only contact address sits on the real boutique's own .com domain, its About page claims the shop was founded in 2018 while the domain is 152 days old, and no operator, phone number or postal address is disclosed anywhere on the captured pages. Independent write-ups describe this storefront as a copy of the real boutique's shop that the real boutique does not run. The technical checks are clean, but the commercial setup is a brand clone, so the score lands in the High Risk band.
The store copies a real boutique it does not belong to
The site presents itself as The Dressing Room Boutique, with a header crest reading 'THE DRESSING ROOM BOUTIQUE' over 'MADISON · WALLINGFORD' and a hero line about shopping 'from your favorite women-owned fashion destination'. That identity belongs to a real wedding-dress and clothing shop in Wallingford, Connecticut, which independent directory listings describe as a long-established local business.
The clearest tell is the contact address: the store's only mailbox is support@thedressingroomboutique.com, which sits on the real boutique's .com domain rather than on the .shop domain being visited, and the pages are built on the storefront of a known brand-clone shop network. Published checks of this storefront state plainly that it copies the real boutique's online store, that the real shop is at thedressingroomboutique.com, and that the real boutique does not run this copy.
The About page claims the shop was 'Founded in 2018', an eight-year history, while the domain itself was registered only 152 days ago, and the site's own image files carry AI-generation names. A shop with that much history would not be launching on a fresh domain with generated imagery.
Nobody is named behind the checkout
The captured pages list no phone number, no operator postal address and no email on the site's own domain. Published checks of the storefront likewise could not identify who runs it, noting that real shops name the company behind them and this one does not. A shopper who reaches the cart and account functions is therefore dealing with an unnamed party.
The site does publish a privacy policy covering collection of name, email, shipping address and payment information, and a contact form that still carries the unedited template placeholder 'john@example.com'. Those are generic template documents with no named business attached to them.
Published analysis of this storefront warns that stores of this kind are unlikely to deliver the real product and may use card details entered at checkout for other purposes. That is a third-party assessment rather than something observed directly on the site, so treat it as a warning about the risk of paying here, not as proof of a specific victim.
Clean connection checks do not make the shop trustworthy
The connection itself is fine: a valid encrypted certificate with a matching hostname, no browser threat feed warning, and a hosting IP with no saved abuse reports. None of that says anything about who is selling the goods.
A saved antivirus aggregate records nine independent engine families returning adverse results, mostly labelled phishing, with two further suspicious verdicts. That observation is stale, so it is a detection record to weigh rather than a fresh scan of the current page.
Every commercial link captured on the site — Shop, Shop Now, The Beauty Shop, Shop The Collection and the cart — stays on thedressingroomboutique.shop, so no cross-domain checkout destination was observed. The risk here is not a redirect chain but paying an unnamed clone operator for goods that may never arrive.
Why the score is 22
9 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.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
12/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 11, 2026 - stale
12 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 10
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| BitDefenderMalicious | phishing |
| CRDFMalicious | malicious |
| CyRadarMalicious | phishing |
| ESETMalicious | phishing |
| Forcepoint ThreatSeekerMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| G-DataMalicious | phishing |
| LevelBlueMalicious | phishing |
| LionicMalicious | phishing |
| VIPREMalicious | phishing |
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 engine results
- BitDefender - phishing - Malicious
- CRDF - Malicious
- CyRadar - phishing - Malicious
- ESET - phishing - Malicious
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- G-Data - phishing - Malicious
- LevelBlue - phishing - Malicious
- Lionic - phishing - Malicious
- VIPRE - phishing - 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
- 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
- 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
- Kaspersky - 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
- 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 ThreatSeekerphishing and other frauds. shopping
- alphaMountain.aiSuspicious
- Googleretail
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 gold crest logo reading 'THE DRESSING ROOM BOUTIQUE' with 'MADISON · WALLINGFORD' beneath it, plus nav items New Arrivals, Dresses, Clothing, Shoes & Accessories, Annie Mame, The Beauty Shop, Gifts & Sale. Hero banner 'COASTAL DAYS — Timeless Style Made for Summer' with a model in a white dress on a coastal terrace; overlay text 'Timeless Style, Curated for You' and 'Shop designer denim, chic dresses, and elegant gowns from your favorite women-owned fashion destination.' with a 'Shop Now' button and 'SHOP NEW ARRIVALS' link. Hero text layers overlap: the large 'Timeless Style Made for Summer' headline collides with the overlaid 'Timeless Style, Curated for You' paragraph, producing visibly broken typography. Top-right shows a search icon, 'Account' link and a shopping bag icon, indicating a transactional storefront with cart and account functions.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a gold crest logo reading 'THE DRESSING ROOM BOUTIQUE' with 'MADISON · WALLINGFORD' beneath it, plus nav items New Arrivals, Dresses, Clothing, Shoes & Accessories, Annie Mame, The Beauty Shop, Gifts & Sale.
- 02
Hero banner 'COASTAL DAYS — Timeless Style Made for Summer' with a model in a white dress on a coastal terrace; overlay text 'Timeless Style, Curated for You' and 'Shop designer denim, chic dresses, and elegant gowns from your favorite women-owned fashion destination.' with a 'Shop Now' button and 'SHOP NEW ARRIVALS' link.
- 03
Hero text layers overlap: the large 'Timeless Style Made for Summer' headline collides with the overlaid 'Timeless Style, Curated for You' paragraph, producing visibly broken typography.
- 04
Top-right shows a search icon, 'Account' link and a shopping bag icon, indicating a transactional storefront with cart and account functions.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Stylish Women's Clothing & Dresses | The Dressing Room Boutique
- Meta description
Discover The Dressing Room Boutique, your destination for timeless style at our women-owned boutiques. From everyday denim and chic dresses to elegant gowns. We carry Joseph Ribkoff, Steve Madden, ASTR, and more . Visit us in Madison and Wallingford, CT, or online!
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
Stylish Women's Clothing & Dresses | The Dressing Room Boutique
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 61 antivirus results.
What independent research found
7 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 store's only contact address is on thedressingroomboutique.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.
- 02The store presents itself as a shop with 8 years of history, but its domain was registered only 152 days ago.
- 039 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.
Web research findings
Independent findings for thedressingroomboutique.shop, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Jacana (hellojacana.com)open
"This site copies The Dressing Room Boutique's online store of women's dresses and clothing, but it's part of a known scam network, and you'll find the real The Dressing Room Boutique at thedressingroomboutique.com."
- Jacana (hellojacana.com)open
"Another copy of The Dressing Room Boutique's store was online in mid-September 2026: thedressingroomboutique.shop."
- Jacana (hellojacana.com)open
"The contact email on shopthedressingroomboutique.shop is at thedressingroomboutique.com, an address named after The Dressing Room Boutique. The Dressing Room Boutique does not run this copy."
- Jacana (hellojacana.com)open
"Stores like this are unlikely to deliver the real product, and may use card details typed at checkout for nefarious purposes."
- Jacana (hellojacana.com)open
"We could not find who runs shopthedressingroomboutique.shop. Real shops name the company behind them; this one does not."
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
- Domainthedressingroomboutique.shop
- Redirects tothedressingroomboutique.shop
- Hosted byBeijing Ruihao Kai Yuan Technology Co., Ltd
- Referencesfonts.googleapis.com · fonts.gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Jun 5, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 5 months old when this review was saved.
- Nov 4, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
thedressingroomboutique.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
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for thedressingroomboutique.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://thedressingroomboutique.shop/
- 2200https://thedressingroomboutique.shop/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
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.
9 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.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's only contact address is on thedressingroomboutique.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. · The store presents itself as a shop with 8 years of history, but its domain was registered only 152 days ago.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 12 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 11, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 4 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
| Independent research | 7 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result12 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 11, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result4 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
- Independent research
- Result7 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 4, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is thedressingroomboutique.shop a scam or a legit online store?
Is thedressingroomboutique.shop safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on thedressingroomboutique.shop — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from thedressingroomboutique.shop?
I ordered from thedressingroomboutique.shop but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report thedressingroomboutique.shop?
thedressingroomboutique.shop looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has thedressingroomboutique.shop been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is thedressingroomboutique.shop on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the thedressingroomboutique.shop domain?
Does thedressingroomboutique.shop have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the thedressingroomboutique.shop report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Clone storefront of a real Connecticut boutique, run by an undisclosed operator on a 152-day-old domain
thedressingroomboutique.shop is a Shopify-style women's fashion store that uses the name, branding and catalog of The Dressing Room Boutique, a real boutique in Wallingford and Madison, Connecticut. Its only contact address sits on the real boutique's own .com domain, its About page claims the shop was founded in 2018 while the domain is 152 days old, and no operator, phone number or postal address is disclosed anywhere on the captured pages. Independent write-ups describe this storefront as a copy of the real boutique's shop that the real boutique does not run. The technical checks are clean, but the commercial setup is a brand clone, so the score lands in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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