Is thesexyshrimp.com legit or a scam?
Restaurant site flagged by six antivirus engines with suspicious contact practices and Apple branding on a non-official domain.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
5 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
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MT Intelligence
The domain is 1,299 days old and hosts what appears to be a legitimate restaurant menu for an Aruba-based establishment. However, six antivirus engines (ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao, Fortinet, Sophos, and Gridinsoft) flag the page as malicious or suspicious, which is a strong signal of compromise or malicious intent. The contact structure raises additional concerns: the only email listed is billyjoel204@icloud.com, a free-mail provider, rather than a business domain—legitimate restaurants typically use their own domain for contact. The page also impersonates Apple branding on a non-official domain, which is inconsistent with a straightforward restaurant site. The hosting IP has a clean abuse score and no reports, and the SSL certificate is valid, suggesting the infrastructure itself is not obviously compromised. The combination of antivirus detections, non-standard contact practices, and brand impersonation points to either a compromised legitimate site or a fake storefront using restaurant branding as cover.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for thesexyshrimp.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No scam reports or complaints found in independent sources.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (icloud.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Apple on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (+297 746 3722).
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://thesexyshrimp.com/
- 2200https://thesexyshrimp.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 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 claims to be Apple.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Only free-mail contact addresses — no on-domain email.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
2 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 claims to be Apple.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- Only free-mail contact addresses — no on-domain email.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with thesexyshrimp.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags thesexyshrimp.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — thesexyshrimp.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. thesexyshrimp.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 73 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- thesexyshrimp.com is 3.6 years old, registered on 11/26/2022 through Bluehost Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged thesexyshrimp.com as malicious or suspicious (5 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. thesexyshrimp.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- thesexyshrimp.com resolves to an IP operated by Unified Layer in US (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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 17, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around thesexyshrimp.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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