Is thriftellc.in safe?

http://thriftellc.in/

Moderate RiskStatus

Coveragecomplete4 of 4 applicable core capabilities

Verdict

Thriftellc is a small Shopify thrift-fashion store with a free-mail contact and two vendor 'suspicious' flags, but no confirmed fraud mechanism.

Thriftellc presents itself as an independent reseller of thrifted and surplus fashion, running on Shopify with product pages, a cart and a discount code. The technical picture is mostly clean: the browser threat feed returned no warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, but two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious. The operator's contact setup is weak for a store that takes orders: business email is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on its own domain, and the captured page did not show a postal address even though a phone number and social profiles are listed. Nothing in the evidence shows a fake-shop kit, a cloned brand storefront, a refund trap or a cross-domain order path, so this is a moderate-risk verdict rather than a confirmed scam.

If you are considering a purchase, treat Thriftellc as an unverified small store rather than an established retailer. Prefer payment methods with buyer protection, avoid sending bank transfers or gift-card payments, and test the contact channels before ordering. The free-mail-only contact and the two vendor 'suspicious' flags are reasons for caution, not proof of fraud, but they are enough to justify checking before you pay.
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Calibrated safety spectrum

Where this site sits

  1. Dangerous1–20
  2. High Risk21–44
  3. Moderate Risk45–69
  4. Low Risk70–84
  5. Safe85–100

The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.

01 · Investigation Brief

Investigation Brief

Thriftellc presents itself as an independent reseller of thrifted and surplus fashion, running on Shopify with product pages, a cart and a discount code. The technical picture is mostly clean: the browser threat feed returned no warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, but two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious. The operator's contact setup is weak for a store that takes orders: business email is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on its own domain, and the captured page did not show a postal address even though a phone number and social profiles are listed. Nothing in the evidence shows a fake-shop kit, a cloned brand storefront, a refund trap or a cross-domain order path, so this is a moderate-risk verdict rather than a confirmed scam.

Clean browsing checks, but two vendors flag the URL

The saved checks show no active malware or phishing warning: the browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. That means the page was not serving a known malicious payload at scan time, not that the shop is trustworthy.

Against that, two antivirus engines flagged the URL as suspicious, with zero malicious and two suspicious detections across 93 engines. The vendors named are alphaMountain.ai and Gridinsoft, and the nature of those flags is not explained beyond a general suspicious/spam categorisation, so they are a caution rather than proof of a specific attack.

A real-looking storefront with thin operator disclosure

The site describes itself as an independent reseller of original, legally sourced thrifted and surplus fashion, and states it is not affiliated with or endorsed by any brand. That is a normal disclaimer for a reseller and does not by itself indicate deception.

The contact setup is the weakest part of the picture. Business communication runs through a free Gmail inbox, ellcstudio1@gmail.com, rather than an address on the store's own domain, and the captured page did not show an operator postal address. A phone number and links to five social profiles are listed, which gives some reachability, but a free-mail-only contact for a store that takes orders is a meaningful accountability gap.

The domain is 450 days old, so it is not a brand-new registration, and the store runs on Shopify with standard cart and checkout elements. Those are ordinary commercial signals, not evidence of fraud, but they also do not offset the contact and vendor-flag concerns.

Why the score is 62

2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.

02 · Security Evidence

Security evidence

Collected signals and independent provider data for this URL.

Antivirus Engines

2/ 93

detections

Fresh result

2 engines flagged this URL

Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.

Malicious
0
Suspicious
2
Total
93
Adverse antivirus results
EngineFinding
alphaMountain.aiSuspiciousspam
GridinsoftSuspicioussuspicious
All 93 engine results
  • alphaMountain.ai - spam - 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
  • 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 - Unrated
  • 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

Security Scans

Browser Threat Feed
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.

What we observed

CAPTURED PAGE
thriftellc.in
What our review noticed on this page
Visual analysis

Visual context from the captured page

GET 5% OFF ON YOUR PURCHASE USE CODE:-ELLC5

Context only

What the captured page showed

1 observation
  1. 01

    GET 5% OFF ON YOUR PURCHASE USE CODE:-ELLC5

03 · Investigation Story

Investigation story

The behavior, reputation, and operator evidence that explains how this site may affect a visitor.
  1. What the site claims

    Thriftellc

  2. What we observed

    The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.

  3. What independent research found

    The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.

  4. 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

No threat category confirmed

Service and business model

Shop

Transaction

Observed behavior

No disruptive browser behavior saved

Evidence behind this classification

  1. 01Two antivirus engines, alphaMountain.ai and Gridinsoft, marked the URL as suspicious.
  2. 02The store's contact address is a free-mail inbox (gmail.com) rather than a mailbox on its own domain.
  3. 032 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious.

If this is a scam — what it means for you

What a visitor actually does here

A visitor browses the collection, clicks 'Shop Now' or 'Add to cart', and proceeds through the store's own cart to a purchase. The commercial flow stays on thriftellc.in; there is no cross-domain checkout or affiliate redirect in the captured links.

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.

  1. The only outbound commercial-adjacent links are to Instagram and to Shopify as the platform provider, both of which are normal for a small independent store and carry no monetisation or redirect risk in the evidence.

  2. A discount code, ELLC5, is promoted on the storefront, which is a standard retail promotion rather than a deceptive mechanism. The practical exposure for a buyer is therefore the ordinary risk of paying an online store whose operator identity is only partially disclosed.

If you are considering a purchase, treat Thriftellc as an unverified small store rather than an established retailer. Prefer payment methods with buyer protection, avoid sending bank transfers or gift-card payments, and test the contact channels before ordering. The free-mail-only contact and the two vendor 'suspicious' flags are reasons for caution, not proof of fraud, but they are enough to justify checking before you pay.

Visitor impactConfidence: Moderate

Grounded in 7 saved evidence references.

Web research findings

Independent findings for thriftellc.in, 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.

Business registration
Not checked
This report did not include a company-registry lookup, so no registration result is claimed.
Clone check
Not checked
No site-clone comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Typosquat check
Not checked
No look-alike domain comparison was run for this report, so no clean result is claimed.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
The completed search returned no sourced scam reports or complaints.

No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for thriftellc.in. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

04 · Domain & Infrastructure

Domain & infrastructure

Timeline · identity · encryption · redirects · hosting

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.

  1. Domainthriftellc.in
  2. Redirects tothriftellc.in
  3. Hosted byShopify, Inc.
  4. Referencesfonts.shopifycdn.com · cdn.shopify.com

Domain Timeline

  1. Jul 31, 2025
    Domain registered

    First appeared in WHOIS records — 1.2 years old when this review was saved.

  2. Oct 24, 2026
    Saved 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.

What We Found
Has contact info, but not on the site's domain
Emails on site's domainNone
Free-mail addressesellcstudio1@gmail.com, himanshubhagwani40@gmail.com
Phone numbers+91 820-9202139
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles1
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email uses the site's own domain.
  • Business contact uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com).
  • No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
  • Phone number listed (+91 820-9202139).
  • Links to 5 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age1.2 years old
RegistrarGoDaddy
RegisteredJul 31, 2025
ExpiresJul 31, 2027
Owner privacyHidden
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · YE1
ExpiresJan 7, 2027 (75d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingShopify, Inc.
Server locationCA
Web servercloudflare
Platform / CMSShopify

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://thriftellc.in/
  • 2200https://thriftellc.in/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file6
ISPShopify, Inc.
Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

05 · Evidence Ledger

Evidence ledger

Coverage, provenance, and source freshness remain separate so a missing check is never mistaken for a clean result.
  1. Antiviruscomplete
  2. Browser threat feedcomplete
  3. Page contentcomplete
  4. Analysiscomplete
  5. Visual evidencecomplete
Completed analysis

The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.

Technical threat

suspicious

Malware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.

2 antivirus results marked the URL as suspicious.

Operator / customer risk

suspicious

Complaints, 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. · The captured page did not show an operator postal address.

Source coverage and freshness

Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.

Antivirus
Result2 of 93 engines flagged
CompletionCompleted
FindingAdverse
Freshnessfresh · analysed Oct 24, 2026
Browser protection
ResultNo browser threat-list match
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
Page content
ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
Visual evidence
Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026
Independent research
ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
CompletionCompleted
FindingNo adverse finding
Freshnessthis scan · Oct 24, 2026

06 · Your Next Move

Your next move

Proceed with caution

The evidence is mixed or incomplete, so treat this site as unverified until you can confirm who runs it.

  1. Analyst recommendation

    If you are considering a purchase, treat Thriftellc as an unverified small store rather than an established retailer. Prefer payment methods with buyer protection, avoid sending bank transfers or gift-card payments, and test the contact channels before ordering. The free-mail-only contact and the two vendor 'suspicious' flags are reasons for caution, not proof of fraud, but they are enough to justify checking before you pay.

  2. Treat thriftellc.in as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  3. Verify the business through independent channels

    Check the company's social profiles, registry records, and search for recent news or reviews that are not hosted on the site itself.

  4. Never use irreversible payment methods

    Crypto, gift cards, wire transfers, and cash apps offer zero buyer protection. Use a credit card or PayPal if you must pay.

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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 thriftellc.in a scam or is it safe?
There isn't enough evidence yet for us to give thriftellc.in a confident verdict, so treat it with caution. The domain is 1.2 years old. Until it can be independently verified, don't enter passwords, card details, or send money, and confirm the company through channels you find yourself rather than links on the site.
Is thriftellc.in safe to use?
thriftellc.in has a Safety Score of 62/100 (Moderate Risk). Analysis coverage is complete at 100%. Do not trust blindly; the evidence is inconclusive.
Has thriftellc.in been flagged by antivirus engines?
Yes. 2 of 93 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network flagged thriftellc.in as suspicious. These are "suspicious" votes rather than confirmed malicious detections, so they are weighed alongside the other checks.
Is thriftellc.in on any phishing or malware blacklists?
No — thriftellc.in is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
How old is the thriftellc.in domain?
thriftellc.in is 1.2 years old, registered on July 31, 2025 through GoDaddy. A registration history of under two years is neither a strong positive nor a strong negative signal on its own.
Does thriftellc.in have a valid SSL certificate?
Yes — thriftellc.in presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, valid for another 75 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
Where is thriftellc.in hosted?
thriftellc.in resolves to an IP operated by Shopify, Inc. in CA (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
How often is the thriftellc.in report updated?
This report is a record of the scan run on October 24, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about thriftellc.in has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.

08 · Final Verdict

Final verdict

The saved conclusion, decisive evidence, and practical action in one final view.
Verdict score
62/100
Moderate Risk

Thriftellc is a small Shopify thrift-fashion store with a free-mail contact and two vendor 'suspicious' flags, but no confirmed fraud mechanism.

Saved capturethriftellc.inCapture-safe
Captured during this scan. Opening this report does not revisit the site.
Conclusion

Thriftellc presents itself as an independent reseller of thrifted and surplus fashion, running on Shopify with product pages, a cart and a discount code. The technical picture is mostly clean: the browser threat feed returned no warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, but two antivirus engines marked the URL as suspicious. The operator's contact setup is weak for a store that takes orders: business email is a free Gmail inbox rather than a mailbox on its own domain, and the captured page did not show a postal address even though a phone number and social profiles are listed. Nothing in the evidence shows a fake-shop kit, a cloned brand storefront, a refund trap or a cross-domain order path, so this is a moderate-risk verdict rather than a confirmed scam.

Recommended actionIf you are considering a purchase, treat Thriftellc as an unverified small store rather than an established retailer. Prefer payment methods with buyer protection, avoid sending bank transfers or gift-card payments, and test the contact channels before ordering. The free-mail-only contact and the two vendor 'suspicious' flags are reasons for caution, not proof of fraud, but they are enough to justify checking before you pay.
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