Is upstore.net legit or a scam?
File-hosting service with legitimate infrastructure but 108+ complaints of unauthorized recurring credit-card charges and poor billing practices.
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
Shop shows non-delivery red flags
File-hosting service with legitimate infrastructure but 108+ complaints of unauthorized recurring credit-card charges and poor billing practices. Several red flags typical of non-delivery shops are present. Don't pay by crypto or wire, and keep the chargeback window in mind.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page renders a clean, functional file-upload interface consistent with a legitimate file-hosting service; no significant scam indicators are visible in this screenshot.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsPage presents a straightforward file-hosting upload interface branded 'Upstore' with tagline 'store & share your files' — consistent with a known file-sharing service.
Footer copyright reads '2026 © Upstore' — a future year, which is a minor anomaly but not uncommon for sites that set copyright to a forward date.
Standard navigation links present (FAQ, Terms, DMCA, Privacy, Premium, About, Contacts) indicating a functional site structure.
No urgency tactics, countdown timers, fake trust badges, or suspicious overlays visible.
No credential-harvesting forms, wallet seed fields, or pre-filled sensitive data inputs visible on screen.
MT Intelligence
Upstore operates a functional file-sharing platform with no malware or phishing detections and a valid SSL certificate. However, the evidence package reveals a pattern of billing complaints across multiple independent review aggregators. Users consistently report unauthorized monthly charges ($11 recurring fees mentioned repeatedly), credit-card draining, and ineffective support responses. The domain is 13.7 years old and hosted on Cloudflare, suggesting operational stability, but the sheer volume and consistency of billing-fraud allegations — 108 complaints on one aggregator alone, with ratings of 1.2/5 to 3.2/5 across platforms — indicates a systemic issue with subscription management or intentional billing practices. A small number of positive reviews mention fast download speeds for premium users, but these are vastly outnumbered by fraud reports. The hidden WHOIS registration and lack of public business details compound the trust deficit.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for upstore.net, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain age approximately 13.7 years (registered ~2012), hosted on Cloudflare.
- Scamadviser trust score 0/100 citing hidden WHOIS owner, high-risk registrar with spam/fraud history, and mainly negative reviews.
- WOT score 54% with community rating 3.2/5 from 18 reviews; frequent complaints of unauthorized recurring credit card charges, hidden subscriptions, and poor support.
- Multiple reports of hosting stolen/copyrighted content (non-consensual videos, piracy) with ineffective or ignored DMCA takedown requests.
- Trustpilot shows 3.1/5 from 108 reviews; Smartcustomer rating 1.2/5 from 6 reviews citing billing theft and ghosting support.
- Gridinsoft gives 69/100 mixed score noting low review ratings despite no active malware/phishing blacklists.
- Used for file sharing with premium accounts; free tier has waits/captchas; some positive notes on download speeds for premium but many billing disputes.
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, upstore.net might be a scam. We found several indicators for this."
- Trustindex.ioopen
"Thieves I paid for a 30 day premium with a $100 Mastercard debit and used it for one day. ... they obviously kept charging the card until it was drained dry. Thieves DO NOT GIVE THEM BUSINESS!"
- MyWOTopen
"these THIEF will RECHARGE 11$ EVERY MONTH."
- Smartcustomer.comopen
"This website steals your money and I do not recommend it to anyone"
- MyWOTopen
"led to malware, spyware, and viruses ... unauthorized charges to my credit card ... This site strikes me as very unethical"
- Filehostreviews.comopen
"Upstore Premium performed well in both Chrome and JDownloader 2 during our test. The free tier is clean but slow."
- G2.comopen
"I like it because I can upload and share files up to 5GB , while I can download quickly, parallel downloads are unlimited so I can download all the files I ..."
Our research found 6 scam reports and 108 complaints across independent review aggregators. Users consistently report unauthorized recurring charges (typically $11/month), credit-card draining after cancellation attempts, and ineffective support responses. One aggregator assigned a 0/100 trust score citing hidden WHOIS ownership and negative community feedback. A second aggregator reported a 54% trust score with a 3.2/5 community rating from 18 reviews. Additional complaints mention hosting of copyrighted and stolen content with ignored DMCA takedown requests. Two positive reviews were found praising fast download speeds for premium users, but these are vastly outnumbered by billing-fraud allegations. The pattern of complaints is consistent and widespread across multiple independent platforms.
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 contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://upstore.net/
- 2200https://upstore.net/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
1 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.
- AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
- Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.
Fake-shop warning signs
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Treat upstore.net as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
- If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
- Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
- OpenReport the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
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 marked upstore.net as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.
- upstore.net currently scores 55/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.
- Yes. upstore.net presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- upstore.net is 13.7 years old, registered on 10/16/2012 through Internet Domain Service BS Corp. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report upstore.net as clean.
- No. upstore.net is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- upstore.net resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. 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 upstore.net 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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