Is thehoshi.to safe?
http://thehoshi.to/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
TheHoshi sells "MASTER QUALITY" replicas of Gucci and Cartier goods from a six-month-old domain with no disclosed operator and a contact address on a different domain.
thehoshi.to is a shop calling itself "Hoshi Boutique" that lists branded luxury items such as Gucci mules and Cartier sunglasses labelled "MASTER QUALITY" — replica merchandising, not the independent design brand its About copy describes. The domain is 187 days old, no legal operator or postal address is shown, and the only email sits on thehoshi-official.com rather than the store's own domain. Independent checks add a low trust rating and a phishing/suspicious listing, while malware and Safe Browsing checks are clean. The combination of counterfeit-style goods, an undisclosed seller and a split-domain commercial path puts this in the High Risk band.
At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
6 months old
Registered May 6, 2026Expires May 6, 2028Certificate
Valid
Expires Dec 27, 2026 (46d)Hosting
United States (US)
Alibaba Cloud LLCPopularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
1/59
1 antivirus engine 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 38/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 7 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious.
- ModerateProduct titles label Gucci and Cartier items "MASTER QUALITY", the store's own term for replica-grade goods.
- ModerateThe only published email is mail@thehoshi-official.com, on a different domain from the storefront.
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "In summary, thehoshi.to has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam. Be very careful when using this…"
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "La puntuación actual es 37/100, por lo que este sitio debe considerarse no confiable salvo que exista una prueba independiente sólida en sentido contrario."
- MinorNo contact email uses the site's own domain and no operator postal address is visible.
- MinorThe "Affiliate Member" link points to thehoshi.co, a third domain hosting the referral program, alongside a 10% referral coupon promotion.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsSafe Browsing returned no threat and 58 of 93 engines report the URL harmless; the hosting IP has no abuse reports.
- SupportsA phone number and dedicated refund/return and shipping policy pages are published.
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).
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
thehoshi.to is a shop calling itself "Hoshi Boutique" that lists branded luxury items such as Gucci mules and Cartier sunglasses labelled "MASTER QUALITY" — replica merchandising, not the independent design brand its About copy describes. The domain is 187 days old, no legal operator or postal address is shown, and the only email sits on thehoshi-official.com rather than the store's own domain. Independent checks add a low trust rating and a phishing/suspicious listing, while malware and Safe Browsing checks are clean. The combination of counterfeit-style goods, an undisclosed seller and a split-domain commercial path puts this in the High Risk band.
Replica luxury goods sold under an "independent brand" story
The catalogue is built on real luxury names: product titles include "GUCCI DOUBLE G SUEDE ROUND TOE SLIP-ON MULES WOMEN BROWN MASTER QUALITY" and "CARTIER CAT-EYE SUNGLASSES WITH TEMPLE LOGO DESIGN, UNISEX COUPLE STYLE, BLACK, MASTER QUALITY". The "MASTER QUALITY" label is the store's own wording for replica-grade goods, and the hero imagery pairs a designer-style handbag with an "ARTISANSHIP / TIMELESS DESIGN" workshop scene.
That merchandising sits against a storefront that describes itself as a boutique brand rather than a reseller of copies. Buyers should understand that goods sold this way are not genuine branded items, and that a seller trading in replicas has no brand-authorised channel behind it.
No named operator, no address, and an email on someone else's domain
Nothing on the reviewed pages identifies the company behind the shop: no contact email uses the site's own domain, and no operator postal address is visible. The single mailbox published is mail@thehoshi-official.com, a different registrable domain from the storefront.
The registrable domain is 187 days old, and a third-party registration record places its creation on 6 May 2026 through the Government of Kingdom of Tonga registry with ownership details not publicly available. A Hong Kong-format phone number, 852 5492 4138, is published, and refund/return and shipping policy pages exist — real conveniences, but they do not identify who would be honouring them.
Checkout, a "Buy Now" button and an affiliate program spread across four domains
The cart and checkout controls are same-site, so an order is placed on thehoshi.to itself. But the homepage "Buy Now" button points off-site to thehoshi.info, and the "Affiliate Member" link goes to www.thehoshi.co, a third registrable domain that hosts the referral program — while the page also promotes "Refer New Users & Earn Rewards" with a 10% coupon.
The relationship between thehoshi.to, thehoshi.info, thehoshi.co and thehoshi.is is never explained on the captured pages. A shopper who clicks through can end up on a different domain than the one they were evaluating, with no stated reason for the split.
Clean malware checks, but a low trust rating and an unencrypted connection
Technical scanning found no malware consensus: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and 58 of 93 engines report the URL harmless, with one engine marking it suspicious. The hosting IP has no abuse reports. Those results mean no detected payload, not that the seller is trustworthy.
Independent reputation checks are less kind: one trust service rates the site very low and warns it is likely a scam, and another listing records the site as reported for phishing and as suspicious. Separately, the scanned address was served over plain HTTP with no redirect to HTTPS even though a valid certificate exists, so the connection was not encrypted.
Why the score is 38
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
- Suspicious1
- Clean58
- Undetected34
| 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 - Clean
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiShopping
- BitDefenderlifestyle
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekershopping
- 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
Visual context from the captured page
Header logo reads "THE HOSHI" with the tagline "HOSHI BOUTIQUE" beneath it. Top navigation lists Home, All Categories, Bag, Shoes, Jewelry, Watch, New Arrivals and Affiliate Program; a phone number 852 5492 4138, Wish List, Compare and Checkout appear in the top bar. Hero banner promotes "Refer New Users & Earn Rewards — NEW USERS ONLY — Earn 10% of Their Order in Coupon" with a "START REFERRING" button and a "Buy Now" button. Hero shows a white crocodile-texture handbag styled like a luxury designer bag next to a leather-craft workbench scene with books labelled "ARTISANSHIP", "TIMELESS DESIGN". Floating chat/social icons (WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok and others) are stacked on the right edge of the page.
What the captured page showed
5 observations- 01
Header logo reads "THE HOSHI" with the tagline "HOSHI BOUTIQUE" beneath it.
- 02
Top navigation lists Home, All Categories, Bag, Shoes, Jewelry, Watch, New Arrivals and Affiliate Program; a phone number 852 5492 4138, Wish List, Compare and Checkout appear in the top bar.
- 03
Hero banner promotes "Refer New Users & Earn Rewards — NEW USERS ONLY — Earn 10% of Their Order in Coupon" with a "START REFERRING" button and a "Buy Now" button.
- 04
Hero shows a white crocodile-texture handbag styled like a luxury designer bag next to a leather-craft workbench scene with books labelled "ARTISANSHIP", "TIMELESS DESIGN".
- 05
Floating chat/social icons (WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, TikTok and others) are stacked on the right edge of the page.
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
- 6
Where the page went
- First loadthehoshi.toSame site
- After a test clickthehoshi.toSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
- Play button
Watch
Opened a page on the same site
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
TheHoshi Official Website
- Meta description
TheHoshi offers top-tier quality, worldwide delivery, secure payment methods, and VIP after-sales service.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/about_usRead
- Terms/termsRead
- Shipping policy/deliveryRead
- Contact page/index.phpCould not be read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
TheHoshi Official Website
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 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 registrable domain is 187 days old, registered through the Tonga registry with ownership not publicly available.
- Also 8 listed above
Web research findings
Independent findings for thehoshi.to, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- ScamAdviseropen
"In summary, thehoshi.to has a very low trust score which indicates that there is a strong likelyhood the website is a scam. Be very careful when using this website!"
- ScamAdviseropen
"This website has been reported for Phishing by IPQS This website has been reported as Suspicious by IPQS"
- Gridinsoftopen
"La puntuación actual es 37/100, por lo que este sitio debe considerarse no confiable salvo que exista una prueba independiente sólida en sentido contrario."
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
- Domainthehoshi.to
- Redirects tothehoshi.to
- Hosted byAlibaba Cloud LLC
- Referencesstore.mediathehoshi.online · thehoshi.infoand 3 more
Domain Timeline
- May 6, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6 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.
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 operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Phone number listed (852 5492 4138).
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 10, 2026: 26% 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: 48% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for thehoshi.to.
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.
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.
Analytics & tracking1
- connect.facebook.netcontacted
CDN & fonts2
Platform & social2
- facebook.comcontacted
- reddit.comin page
Other / unknown5
- n2n5o3nlb661.cloud.runcontacted
- store.mediathehoshi.onlinein pagecontacted
- thehoshi.coin page
- thehoshi.infoin page
- thehoshi.isin page
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.
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 | 1 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | Adverse | fresh · analysed Nov 10, 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 | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 10, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 10, 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
- Result4 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 10, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is thehoshi.to a scam or a legit online store?
Is thehoshi.to safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on thehoshi.to — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from thehoshi.to?
I ordered from thehoshi.to but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report thehoshi.to?
thehoshi.to looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has thehoshi.to been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is thehoshi.to on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the thehoshi.to domain?
Does thehoshi.to have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the thehoshi.to report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
TheHoshi sells "MASTER QUALITY" replicas of Gucci and Cartier goods from a six-month-old domain with no disclosed operator and a contact address on a different domain.
thehoshi.to is a shop calling itself "Hoshi Boutique" that lists branded luxury items such as Gucci mules and Cartier sunglasses labelled "MASTER QUALITY" — replica merchandising, not the independent design brand its About copy describes. The domain is 187 days old, no legal operator or postal address is shown, and the only email sits on thehoshi-official.com rather than the store's own domain. Independent checks add a low trust rating and a phishing/suspicious listing, while malware and Safe Browsing checks are clean. The combination of counterfeit-style goods, an undisclosed seller and a split-domain commercial path puts this in the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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