Is vstmarketplace.net safe?
http://vstmarketplace.net/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Ten-day-old storefront sells Ableton, Serum and Cubase licences at a fraction of list price while disclaiming any link to the developers
VSTmarketplace is a digital shop for VST plugins, DAWs and Kontakt libraries, and it lists major commercial titles such as Ableton Live 12 Suite at £69.00 and Xfer Serum 2 at £99.97, while its own disclaimer says it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the developers of the products it lists. The registrable domain was created on 28 October 2026 and was 10 days old at review, no legal entity, registration number or postal address is published, and the hero advertises only a 3-day refund policy. Independent scanner research labels the host a suspicious shop with a 14/100 trust score, and reviews of the similarly named vstmarketplace.com describe paying for software and receiving no working download or key and no refund. Technical checks are clean, but the commercial picture is what drives the score into the High Risk band.
At a glance
Saved with this scan; each value is explained in the sections below.
Domain age
10 days old
Registered Oct 28, 2026Expires Oct 28, 2027Certificate
Valid
Expires Jan 29, 2027 (82d)Hosting
United States (US)
Cloudflare, Inc.Popularity
Not in the Cloudflare Radar top list
Antivirus
0/58
No antivirus detections across 58 enginesSafe Browsing
Not flagged
Not flagged on major threat listsCommunity
No reviews yet
Checked
Nov 8, 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 30/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 6 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateMajor commercial titles such as Ableton Live 12 Suite (£69.00) and Xfer Serum 2 (£99.97, marked down from £149.00) are sold with Add to cart buttons while the site disclaims any affiliation with their developers.
- ModerateThe site names only its trading name and offers a contact page, domain email, phone and WhatsApp; no legal entity, registration number or postal address is published.
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "该网站因多个风险信号被归类为可疑商店，包括1 个黑名单命中, 一个非常新的域名（10 天）,和尚无稳定的公开用户评价历史。"
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Sold cracked software, which is like okay? People do it all the time but they represent themselves as legit plug in resellers and THEY DIDNT SEND THE KEYGEN IT…"
- MinorThe registrable domain was registered on 28 October 2026 and was 10 days old at review.
- MinorThe hero advertises a 3-day refund policy alongside instant download and 1-hour support claims and a 4.7 rating from 11 reviews.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe site publishes a domain email, a phone number, social profiles and wording confirming buyers keep mandatory consumer rights in their own country.
- Supports0 of 93 engines flagged the domain, Safe Browsing returned no warning, TLS is valid and the hosting IP has an abuse score of 0/100.
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).
Lost money or shared details on vstmarketplace.net? Do this now
Act quickly: the first hours matter most for a chargeback.
- Call your bank or card issuer now
Ask them to dispute the charge or open a chargeback; the sooner you act, the better your odds. Card payments can often be reversed. Bank transfers and gift cards are harder, but report them to your bank too. Crypto payments usually cannot be reversed: report the wallet address and transaction ID to the exchange you sent from.
- Change any password you entered
If you entered a password on vstmarketplace.net, change it there and anywhere you reused it, and turn on two-factor authentication. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and messages as evidence.
- Report the site
Reports help get scam sites taken down faster and warn other people.
- Report the domain to its registrar
NameCheap, Inc. takes abuse reports at abuse@namecheap.com (+1.6613102107). Include the address and what happened.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your money
"Recovery" services or agents who contact you, or ask for a fee up front, are almost always a second scam aimed at victims. Your bank's dispute process and the official reporting services never charge a fee in advance.
Full answers about refunds and reporting are in the Safety FAQ below.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
VSTmarketplace is a digital shop for VST plugins, DAWs and Kontakt libraries, and it lists major commercial titles such as Ableton Live 12 Suite at £69.00 and Xfer Serum 2 at £99.97, while its own disclaimer says it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the developers of the products it lists. The registrable domain was created on 28 October 2026 and was 10 days old at review, no legal entity, registration number or postal address is published, and the hero advertises only a 3-day refund policy. Independent scanner research labels the host a suspicious shop with a 14/100 trust score, and reviews of the similarly named vstmarketplace.com describe paying for software and receiving no working download or key and no refund. Technical checks are clean, but the commercial picture is what drives the score into the High Risk band.
Deep discounts on branded software from an undisclosed operator
The catalogue is built on other companies' products. Product cards offer Ableton Live 12 Suite for £69.00 and Xfer Records Serum 2 with preset packs for £99.97, marked down from £149.00, each with macOS/Windows options and an Add to cart button. The site's own disclaimer states it is an independent store not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the developers of the products it lists, so the licences are being resold outside the developers' own channels at prices far below their published rates.
Who runs the store is not disclosed. The site says only that VSTmarketplace is the name it trades under and describes itself as an online store for VST plugins, DAWs, Kontakt libraries, presets and sample packs, with contact through a contact page, support@vstmarketplace.net, a phone number and a WhatsApp chat. No company name, registration number or postal address appears, and the domain was registered through NameCheap on 28 October 2026, making it 10 days old at review.
The sales pitch leans on incentives and short windows: an orange banner offers £5 welcome credit plus 5% cashback on orders of £50 or more, and the hero shows a 4.7 rating from 11 reviews alongside claims of instant download, support within 1 hour and a 3-day refund policy. Those are marketing statements on a storefront with no review history of its own, not verified service levels.
Scanner warnings and buyer complaints about undelivered software
Independent scanner research classifies vstmarketplace.net as a suspicious shop with a 14/100 trust score, citing a blacklist hit, a very new domain and no stable public review history. That is a third-party risk rating rather than proof of fraud, but it matches what the site's own pages show.
Reviews left for the similarly named vstmarketplace.com describe the failure mode buyers fear here: one buyer says they paid for software, received no working key or keygen and got no refund, and another says they received no download link and support then argued they had never bought anything. Those reviews are attached to a different domain, so they cannot be pinned on this operator, but they show the same product category and storefront style producing non-delivery and refund refusals.
The site does publish consumer-protection wording saying buyers keep the mandatory rights of their own country and may bring a claim in their own courts, and it offers a domain email, a phone number and social profiles. Those are real contact channels, but they sit alongside a 3-day refund window and no disclosed legal entity, so they do not offset the delivery and refund risk.
Clean technical checks do not make the shop trustworthy
Nothing malicious was found at the network level: 0 of 93 engines flagged the domain, the browser threat feed returned no warning, the TLS certificate is valid, and the hosting address carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100. No popups, forced redirects or file downloads appeared during the browser session, and every commercial link in the captured graph stays on vstmarketplace.net, with the only cross-site link being a WhatsApp support chat.
The risk here is commercial, not technical. A visitor is asked to pay for branded software licences from a storefront that is 10 days old, names no operator, disclaims any relationship with the software makers, and advertises a 3-day refund window, while external reviews of a same-named shop describe paying and receiving nothing usable. That combination is why the score sits in the High Risk band despite clean antivirus and connection results.
Why the score is 30
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 58 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 35 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
- Clean58
- Undetected35
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- 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
- Gridinsoft - 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 - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
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 shows a shopping-bag logo with the wordmark 'VSTmarketplace' and a search bar placeholder 'Search plugins, DAWs, libraries'. Orange top banner reads '£5 welcome credit + 5% cashback. Welcome credit on orders of £50+' with a 'Shop now' button. Hero headline 'Audio plugins and DAWs, ready to download.' with subtext listing VST plugins, DAW software, Kontakt libraries, presets and sample packs, plus buttons 'Shop all products' and 'See best sellers'. Hero shows a 4.7 rating 'from 11 reviews' with five green stars and avatar circles, plus checkmark claims 'Instant download', 'Support within 1 hour' and '3-day refund policy'. Hero graphic shows tilted product screenshots labelled 'Serum 2', 'Ableton Live 12 Suite', 'Hive 2', 'soothe2' and 'Pro 11' — branded commercial music software. Menu bar lists Home, Shop, VST Plugins, DAWs, Kontakt Libraries (NEW), Deals (HOT), Blog (NEW), Reviews and Contact. Bottom section 'Shop by category' with an 'All products' link and a row of product thumbnails.
What the captured page showed
7 observations- 01
Header shows a shopping-bag logo with the wordmark 'VSTmarketplace' and a search bar placeholder 'Search plugins, DAWs, libraries'.
- 02
Orange top banner reads '£5 welcome credit + 5% cashback. Welcome credit on orders of £50+' with a 'Shop now' button.
- 03
Hero headline 'Audio plugins and DAWs, ready to download.' with subtext listing VST plugins, DAW software, Kontakt libraries, presets and sample packs, plus buttons 'Shop all products' and 'See best sellers'.
- 04
Hero shows a 4.7 rating 'from 11 reviews' with five green stars and avatar circles, plus checkmark claims 'Instant download', 'Support within 1 hour' and '3-day refund policy'.
- 05
Hero graphic shows tilted product screenshots labelled 'Serum 2', 'Ableton Live 12 Suite', 'Hive 2', 'soothe2' and 'Pro 11' — branded commercial music software.
- 06
Menu bar lists Home, Shop, VST Plugins, DAWs, Kontakt Libraries (NEW), Deals (HOT), Blog (NEW), Reviews and Contact.
- 07
Bottom section 'Shop by category' with an 'All products' link and a row of product thumbnails.
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
- 1
- Other hosts contacted
- 5
Where the page went
- First loadvstmarketplace.netSame site
Hosts on our aggressive-advertising list
None contacted.
Test clicks
No test click was made on this page.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
VST Plugins, DAW Software and Kontakt Libraries - VSTmarketplace
- Meta description
Shop VST plugins, DAWs and Kontakt libraries for Mac and Windows. Every product lists its formats, supported DAWs and system requirements.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms/Read
- Refund / returns policy/refund-policy/Read
- Shipping policy/delivery/Read
- Contact page/kontakt-libraries/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
VST Plugins, DAW Software and Kontakt Libraries - VSTmarketplace
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
6 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
Web research findings
Independent findings for vstmarketplace.net, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- Gridinsoft URL Scanneropen
"该网站因多个风险信号被归类为可疑商店，包括1 个黑名单命中, 一个非常新的域名（10 天）,和尚无稳定的公开用户评价历史。"
- Gridinsoft URL Scanneropen
"vstmarketplace.net 显示可疑网店风险，信任评分为 14/100。"
- Trustpilot (vstmarketplace.com)open
"Sold cracked software, which is like okay? People do it all the time but they represent themselves as legit plug in resellers and THEY DIDNT SEND THE KEYGEN IT DOESNT WORK AND THERES NO REFUND"
- Trustpilot (vstmarketplace.com)open
"Bought software from them. Didnt recieve a link to download. Contacted support they arguing that I didnt buy anything from them."
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
- Domainvstmarketplace.net
- Redirects tovstmarketplace.net
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesgoogletagmanager.com · wa.meand 2 more
Domain Timeline
- Oct 28, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 10 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 8, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
vstmarketplace.net was registered very recently when this review was saved and was already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@vstmarketplace.net).
- Phone number listed (447445665954).
- Links to 3 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
At the scan on Nov 8, 2026: 3% of the registration period had passed
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
At the scan on Nov 8, 2026: 9% of the validity period had passed
Certificate issued for vstmarketplace.net.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Chat, reviews and email
- Tawk.to chat
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.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://vstmarketplace.net/
- 2200https://vstmarketplace.net/
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 & tracking3
- google-analytics.comcontacted
- googletagmanager.comin pagecontacted
- static.cloudflareinsights.comin pagecontacted
Platform & social1
- wa.mein page
Chat & reviews2
- embed.tawk.toin pagecontacted
- va.tawk.tocontacted
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
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
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 | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 8, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 7 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
| Independent research | 6 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Nov 8, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 8, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result7 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
- Independent research
- Result6 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 8, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
Is vstmarketplace.net a scam or a legit online store?
Is vstmarketplace.net safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on vstmarketplace.net — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from vstmarketplace.net?
I ordered from vstmarketplace.net but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report vstmarketplace.net?
vstmarketplace.net looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has vstmarketplace.net been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is vstmarketplace.net on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the vstmarketplace.net domain?
Does vstmarketplace.net have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the vstmarketplace.net report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Ten-day-old storefront sells Ableton, Serum and Cubase licences at a fraction of list price while disclaiming any link to the developers
VSTmarketplace is a digital shop for VST plugins, DAWs and Kontakt libraries, and it lists major commercial titles such as Ableton Live 12 Suite at £69.00 and Xfer Serum 2 at £99.97, while its own disclaimer says it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the developers of the products it lists. The registrable domain was created on 28 October 2026 and was 10 days old at review, no legal entity, registration number or postal address is published, and the hero advertises only a 3-day refund policy. Independent scanner research labels the host a suspicious shop with a 14/100 trust score, and reviews of the similarly named vstmarketplace.com describe paying for software and receiving no working download or key and no refund. Technical checks are clean, but the commercial picture is what drives the score into the High Risk band.
09 · Community
Community
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