Is thegothsociety.com safe?
http://thegothsociety.com/
Checked on
How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Real, established gothic jewelry shop, but buyers report plastic and misdescribed items and slow shipping
The Goth Society is a Shopify storefront selling gothic jewelry — necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings — with a 'Build Your Bundle – 7 FOR $85' promotion, operated according to its own terms by Herivana LLC, a company it says is registered in New Mexico. The domain is about 4.6 years old, contact channels are on the site's own domain, and no malware or phishing was detected. What pulls the score into the moderate-risk band is the customer side: several independent an independent review platform's reviewers describe the jewelry as largely plastic and not matching the photos, rings that were expected to be stainless steel arriving as copper, and slow shipping with no updates, while the store's own refund wording leaves remedies at the merchant's discretion.
Loading saved screenshot
Preparing the saved page preview.
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 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 4 findings pulled the score down; 4 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's refund wording offers a replacement, a full or partial refund 'as appropriate', or another agreed resolution, leaving the remedy at the merchant's discretion.-4 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Scam! Not as advertised at all! I am absolutely disgusted with the quality of this jewelry. I got the 7 for $85 and it is 90% plastic."-4 pts
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Gridinsoft has flagged this website as potentially malicious"-4 pts
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe domain has been registered for about 4.6 years, which is inconsistent with a freshly created throwaway store.
- SupportsThe terms and shipping policy name Herivana LLC, registered in New Mexico, as the legal operator.
- SupportsThe site lists an email on its own domain, a phone number, a postal address and ten social profiles.
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no threat warning and the TLS connection is valid and encrypted.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 70 to 58 and split those 12 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
The Goth Society is a Shopify storefront selling gothic jewelry — necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings — with a 'Build Your Bundle – 7 FOR $85' promotion, operated according to its own terms by Herivana LLC, a company it says is registered in New Mexico. The domain is about 4.6 years old, contact channels are on the site's own domain, and no malware or phishing was detected. What pulls the score into the moderate-risk band is the customer side: several independent an independent review platform's reviewers describe the jewelry as largely plastic and not matching the photos, rings that were expected to be stainless steel arriving as copper, and slow shipping with no updates, while the store's own refund wording leaves remedies at the merchant's discretion.
What buyers say about the product and delivery
Independent reviews on an independent review platform describe a gap between the listing and what arrived. One buyer of the 7-for-$85 bundle called the jewelry '90% plastic' and said it was not as advertised; another said rings believed to be stainless steel turned out to be copper, with one feeling too light to be stainless steel. A third complained that shipping was very slow with no communication during transit.
The picture is not uniformly negative. The store holds an 'Average' 3.5 out of 5 rating on an independent review platform, and one reviewer reports that the shop responded and refunded the purchase. That is consistent with a real merchant that handles some complaints, not with a storefront that simply disappears with payments.
The store's own refund and returns language is the weakest part of its customer terms: remedies are framed as a replacement at no cost, a full or partial refund 'as appropriate', or another resolution agreed with the merchant — discretionary wording rather than a clear, stated refund right. Combined with the material complaints, a buyer has limited certainty about what they would get back if an item disappoints.
Technical checks versus who runs the shop
Nothing technical points to malware or credential theft. The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the hosting address carries an abuse confidence score of 0 out of 100. A saved antivirus observation does contain one 'suspicious' label from a single engine, and a third-party site-safety listing repeats that flag; that is a low-weight signal, not a detection of malicious code, and it does not by itself describe how the site would harm a visitor.
On the operator side, the shop is not anonymous: the terms and shipping policy name Herivana LLC as the legal operator registered in New Mexico, the site lists an email on its own domain, a phone number, a postal address and ten social profiles, and the domain has been registered for roughly 4.6 years. Those facts argue against a throwaway fake storefront, though a printed company name is a claim rather than a verified registration.
Why the score is 58
The store's refund wording offers a replacement, a full or partial refund 'as appropriate', or another agreed resolution, leaving the remedy at the merchant's discretion. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 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
- 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
- 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 ThreatSeekerentertainment
- Googleshopping
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
Loading saved screenshot
Preparing the saved page preview.
Visual context from the captured page
Header shows the wordmark 'THE GOTH SOCIETY' with navigation for Necklaces, Earrings, Bracelets, Rings, Contact Us, Order Tracker and More, plus a US (USD) currency selector, search, account and cart icons. Black announcement bar reads 'Free Delivery on All Orders'. Purple hero button reads 'Build Your Bundle – 7 FOR $85' beneath the headline 'Wear It. Feel It. Mean It.' Hero shows a model wearing multiple rings and a chain necklace next to a flat-lay of silver-tone jewelry: a coffin pendant, a skull pendant and a spike hoop earring.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows the wordmark 'THE GOTH SOCIETY' with navigation for Necklaces, Earrings, Bracelets, Rings, Contact Us, Order Tracker and More, plus a US (USD) currency selector, search, account and cart icons.
- 02
Black announcement bar reads 'Free Delivery on All Orders'.
- 03
Purple hero button reads 'Build Your Bundle – 7 FOR $85' beneath the headline 'Wear It. Feel It. Mean It.'
- 04
Hero shows a model wearing multiple rings and a chain necklace next to a flat-lay of silver-tone jewelry: a coffin pendant, a skull pendant and a spike hoop earring.
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
The Goth Society
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/policies/refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
The Goth Society
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 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 refund wording offers a replacement, a full or partial refund 'as appropriate', or another agreed resolution, leaving the remedy at the merchant's discretion.
- 022 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Scam! Not as advertised at all! I am absolutely disgusted with the quality of this jewelry. I got the 7 for $85 and it is 90% plastic."
- 032 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Gridinsoft has flagged this website as potentially malicious"
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens when you buy
A visitor adds items with the 'Add' and 'Choose' controls on product cards and pays through the store's own cart and checkout, with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Apple Pay, Google Pay and other major methods listed. The order path stays on thegothsociety.com; the only off-site links are social profiles and an independent review platform's page, none of which are monetized checkout routes.
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.
The exposure is therefore commercial rather than technical: paying for jewelry that reviewers describe as plastic or a different metal than expected, waiting through slow shipping without updates, and then relying on a discretionary refund clause to resolve it.
Treat this as a moderate-risk purchase, not a dangerous site. If you want the jewelry, pay with a card or PayPal-style method that offers chargeback protection, keep the product page and photos as evidence of what was advertised, and ask support in writing about the metal composition, the return window and who pays return shipping before ordering. Skip the multi-item bundle until you have seen one item in person, and do not rely on the refund policy as written to guarantee your money back.
Web research findings
Independent findings for thegothsociety.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.
- Trustpilot (UK)open
"Scam! Not as advertised at all! I am absolutely disgusted with the quality of this jewelry. I got the 7 for $85 and it is 90% plastic."
- Trustpilot (AU)open
"Shipping was very slow and there was no communication during the shipping."
- Trustpilot (AU)open
"We were under the impression that all of the rings were stainless steel, but at least two are copper and one feels too light to be stainless steel."
- ScamAdviseropen
"Gridinsoft has flagged this website as potentially malicious"
- Trustpilot (UK)open
"As you can see below Goth Society got back to me and they also refunded my purchase."
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. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainthegothsociety.com
- Redirects towww.thegothsociety.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencess.pinimg.com · connect.facebook.net
Domain Timeline
- Mar 24, 2022Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 4, 2026Saved 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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@thegothsociety.com).
- Phone number listed (+1 256 770 0001).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 10 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for www.thegothsociety.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Pinterest Tag
- Meta Pixel
- Google Tag Manager
Chat, reviews and email
- Klaviyo
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://thegothsociety.com/
- 2301https://thegothsociety.com/
- 3200https://www.thegothsociety.com/
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. 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 refund wording offers a replacement, a full or partial refund 'as appropriate', or another agreed resolution, leaving the remedy at the merchant's discretion. · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Scam! Not as advertised at all! I am absolutely disgusted with the quality of this jewelry. I got the 7 for $85 and it is 90% plastic."
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 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
- Result1 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 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
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is thegothsociety.com a scam or is it safe?
Is thegothsociety.com safe to use?
Has thegothsociety.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is thegothsociety.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the thegothsociety.com domain?
Does thegothsociety.com have a valid SSL certificate?
Where is thegothsociety.com hosted?
How often is the thegothsociety.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Real, established gothic jewelry shop, but buyers report plastic and misdescribed items and slow shipping
The Goth Society is a Shopify storefront selling gothic jewelry — necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings — with a 'Build Your Bundle – 7 FOR $85' promotion, operated according to its own terms by Herivana LLC, a company it says is registered in New Mexico. The domain is about 4.6 years old, contact channels are on the site's own domain, and no malware or phishing was detected. What pulls the score into the moderate-risk band is the customer side: several independent an independent review platform's reviewers describe the jewelry as largely plastic and not matching the photos, rings that were expected to be stainless steel arriving as copper, and slow shipping with no updates, while the store's own refund wording leaves remedies at the merchant's discretion.
09 · Community
Community
Are you the owner of thegothsociety.com?Verify and reply