Is upgrader.rip safe?

What the site sells and how the upgrade is described

The site presents itself as a way to get Spotify Premium without paying Spotify's own subscription price. Its own copy says it does not sell accounts and never needs the customer's Spotify password, and that playlists, liked songs and followers stay where they are. Instead, it says the upgrade is delivered by adding the customer to 'authorised family plans'.

The commercial path is a checkout: the page shows 'See Plans & Buy' and 'Buy Now' calls to action, and the ordering section explains that PayPal is paid either on the site's own payment page, where keys are released automatically once payment arrives, or arranged by hand through live chat or a ticket.

Anonymous operator, new domain, and a refund policy that favors replacements

The captured page lists no phone number and no operator postal address, so there is no verifiable business behind the checkout. The registrable domain is only 54 days old, which means there is no long operating history to weigh against the 'lifetime' promise.

The refund policy states that 'almost everything is fixed with a free replacement' and only then describes when a refund applies instead. For a service whose value depends on continued access to a third-party platform, a replacement-first policy leaves the buyer with little practical remedy if the upgrade stops working.

Two antivirus engines previously marked the URL as suspicious. That is a saved observation rather than a fresh scan, so it should be treated as a real but dated signal, not as proof of current malware.

Technical checks are clean, but the operator risk is the real issue

The browser threat feed returned no threat warning and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. Those results mean the page itself was not flagged as a delivery vehicle for malware at the time of the check; they do not vouch for the seller or the product.

The operator risk is separate and more concrete. The site itself states it is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Spotify AB, and it describes the upgrade as placement on 'authorised family plans'. That means the customer is paying an anonymous third party for access that depends on Spotify's family-plan terms continuing to tolerate the arrangement. If Spotify removes the account from the plan, the 'lifetime' upgrade ends, and the buyer's only stated remedy is a free replacement rather than a refund.