Is theholdstar.com safe?
http://theholdstar.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Two-day-old anonymous Shopify storefront selling apparel with only a Gmail contact and a scanner warning of a fraudulent shop
theholdstar.com presents itself as HoldStar, a Shopify-based apparel and accessories store with a hero 'SHOP HERE!' button, a cart, and an 'EARLY BLACK FRIDAY' countdown pushing '30-DAY GUARANTEE • 50% OFF TODAY'. Behind the storefront there is no verifiable counterparty: the domain was registered only two days before analysis, the site names no company, registration number, phone or postal address, and the only published mailbox is a free Gmail inbox unrelated to the brand. A URL scanner classifies the site as a suspicious and fraudulent e-commerce site. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
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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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 5 findings pulled the score down; 1 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.
- ModerateThe store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- ModerateOne public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Theholdstar.com 是一个欺诈性电子商务网站，通过欺骗性策略收取付款并窃取个人数据。"
- ModerateThe only published contact address is a free Gmail inbox (lectiluzinfo@gmail.com) unrelated to the brand, not a mailbox on the store's own domain.
- MinorNo company name, registration number, phone number or postal address appears on the captured pages; the footer shows only a copyright line and a privacy link.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no threat warning, TLS is valid, and the hosting IP has an abuse confidence score of 0/100.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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- Change any password you entered
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- Report the site
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- Report the domain to its registrar
Tucows Domains Inc. takes abuse reports at domainabuse@tucows.com (+1.4165350123). Include the address and what happened.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
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Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
theholdstar.com presents itself as HoldStar, a Shopify-based apparel and accessories store with a hero 'SHOP HERE!' button, a cart, and an 'EARLY BLACK FRIDAY' countdown pushing '30-DAY GUARANTEE • 50% OFF TODAY'. Behind the storefront there is no verifiable counterparty: the domain was registered only two days before analysis, the site names no company, registration number, phone or postal address, and the only published mailbox is a free Gmail inbox unrelated to the brand. A URL scanner classifies the site as a suspicious and fraudulent e-commerce site. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
No one is accountable behind the storefront
The captured pages disclose no operator identity at all: no contact email on the site's own domain, no phone number, and no postal address. The footer shows only '© 2026, HoldStar' and a privacy-policy link, so a buyer has nothing to check against a company register or a physical location.
The one mailbox the site does publish is a free Gmail address, lectiluzinfo@gmail.com, printed in the privacy policy — a name that has nothing to do with the HoldStar brand. A free-mail-only contact is a recognised fake-shop signal and, combined with the missing address and phone, leaves no way to escalate a problem.
The domain itself was registered on 1 November 2026 through Tucows, making it two days old at the time of analysis, and the store runs on Shopify with a stock Shopify privacy policy. A brand-new domain with a template policy and no trading history gives a shopper no track record to rely on.
Clean technical checks do not make the shop trustworthy
On the technical side the site looks ordinary: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the TLS certificate is valid, and the hosting IP carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100 in the one saved report. There is no malware, phishing page or forced redirect in what was captured.
The antivirus picture is not a clean bill of health either: one engine out of 93 marks the URL as suspicious, and independent research cites a scanner that labels theholdstar.com a suspicious shop — pointing to a blacklist hit, the two-day-old domain and the absence of any stable public review history — and describes it as a fraudulent e-commerce site that takes payments through deceptive tactics. That is a vendor assessment rather than a customer complaint, but it aligns with the missing operator details.
The privacy policy also states that personal data is shared with Shopify, vendors and 'business and marketing partners' for advertising, and that marketing messages may arrive by email, text or post. That is standard Shopify boilerplate, but it means contact details entered here feed a marketing pipeline run by an unidentified operator.
Why the score is 38
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 93
detectionsFresh result
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
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 93 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
- 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
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Unrated
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
- 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
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Visual context from the captured page
Header shows a black 'HOLDSTAR' wordmark centered between nav links (Home, Catalog, Contact) and search/account/cart icons. Gold banner reads 'EARLY BLACK FRIDAY ENDS IN:' with a live countdown (02:59:54), and a black bar below reads '30-DAY GUARANTEE • 50% OFF TODAY'. Hero photo shows a muscular man in a black t-shirt and tan utility fanny pack standing beside a pickup truck in a parking garage, with a white 'SHOP HERE!' button overlaid. Footer shows '© 2026, HoldStar' and a 'Privacy policy' link; no address, phone or company registration is visible.
What the captured page showed
4 observations- 01
Header shows a black 'HOLDSTAR' wordmark centered between nav links (Home, Catalog, Contact) and search/account/cart icons.
- 02
Gold banner reads 'EARLY BLACK FRIDAY ENDS IN:' with a live countdown (02:59:54), and a black bar below reads '30-DAY GUARANTEE • 50% OFF TODAY'.
- 03
Hero photo shows a muscular man in a black t-shirt and tan utility fanny pack standing beside a pickup truck in a parking garage, with a white 'SHOP HERE!' button overlaid.
- 04
Footer shows '© 2026, HoldStar' and a 'Privacy policy' link; no address, phone or company registration is visible.
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
HoldStar
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Privacy policy/policies/privacy-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
HoldStar
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
4 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The domain was registered on 1 November 2026 and was two days old at analysis, so there is no trading history.
- 02The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
- 03No company name, registration number, phone number or postal address appears on the captured pages; the footer shows only a copyright line and a privacy link.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What happens if you shop here
A visitor is drawn in by a gold countdown banner reading 'EARLY BLACK FRIDAY ENDS IN:' and a black bar promising '30-DAY GUARANTEE • 50% OFF TODAY', then clicks the hero 'SHOP HERE!' button to reach the product page and cart. The pressure to buy now is created by the site itself, and no guarantee or returns policy page was captured to back the 30-day promise.
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 order path stays on the same domain — the cart and shop links point back to theholdstar.com, and the only cross-site links in the captured graph are legal references to Shopify's own privacy pages. So the risk is not a redirect to a strange payment site; it is paying a two-day-old, anonymous storefront whose only contact is a Gmail inbox, with no address, phone or review history to fall back on if an order goes wrong.
Do not enter card details or personal information on theholdstar.com. The store is two days old, names no company, address or phone, and its only contact is a Gmail inbox, while a scanner already labels it a fraudulent shop. If you want the product, buy it from an established retailer with a verifiable address and returns policy, and treat the countdown and '50% OFF' banner as sales pressure rather than a real deadline.
Web research findings
Independent findings for theholdstar.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.
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.
- Domaintheholdstar.com
- Redirects totheholdstar.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencescdn.shopify.com · gstatic.com
Domain Timeline
- Nov 1, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 4, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
theholdstar.com 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.
- Business contact uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com).
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for theholdstar.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.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
Payment providers the page loads
- Shop Pay
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://theholdstar.com/
- 2200https://theholdstar.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
- Antiviruscomplete
- 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.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain. · One public warning on a scam-warning or security site: "Theholdstar.com 是一个欺诈性电子商务网站，通过欺骗性策略收取付款并窃取个人数据。"
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 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 4, 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 | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 4, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 4, 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
- Result4 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 theholdstar.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is theholdstar.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on theholdstar.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from theholdstar.com?
I ordered from theholdstar.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report theholdstar.com?
theholdstar.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has theholdstar.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is theholdstar.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the theholdstar.com domain?
Does theholdstar.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the theholdstar.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Two-day-old anonymous Shopify storefront selling apparel with only a Gmail contact and a scanner warning of a fraudulent shop
theholdstar.com presents itself as HoldStar, a Shopify-based apparel and accessories store with a hero 'SHOP HERE!' button, a cart, and an 'EARLY BLACK FRIDAY' countdown pushing '30-DAY GUARANTEE • 50% OFF TODAY'. Behind the storefront there is no verifiable counterparty: the domain was registered only two days before analysis, the site names no company, registration number, phone or postal address, and the only published mailbox is a free Gmail inbox unrelated to the brand. A URL scanner classifies the site as a suspicious and fraudulent e-commerce site. Technical checks are clean, but the operator and customer-safety picture is not, so the score sits in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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