Is welfareis.com safe?
http://welfareis.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Welfareis is a Shopify storefront with a US business address but a China return address and a generic service mailbox, so buyer protection is unclear.
Welfareis presents itself as an online shop selling discounted personal-care and car-care items, with aggressive multi-buy promotions and a standard Shopify checkout. The site's own return policy sends returns to Dongguan City in Guangdong Province, China, while the operator is described as a Denver, Colorado company, and customer contact is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain. The domain is about three years old and the saved connection and Safe Browsing checks are clean, but one saved antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. The mismatch between the claimed US operation and the China return path, combined with the template-style contact pattern, is the kind of setup where returns and after-sales support can become difficult, so the score sits in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
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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 58/100
Moderate Risk covers scores 45–69. 3 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- ModerateThe store's refund, shipping or terms pages send returns to mainland China or Hong Kong.
- ModerateCustomer contact is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain, a pattern repeated across template-based shop networks.
- Moderate1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe registrable domain is about three years old, longer than the throwaway domains typical of pure fake shops.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
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). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Welfareis presents itself as an online shop selling discounted personal-care and car-care items, with aggressive multi-buy promotions and a standard Shopify checkout. The site's own return policy sends returns to Dongguan City in Guangdong Province, China, while the operator is described as a Denver, Colorado company, and customer contact is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain. The domain is about three years old and the saved connection and Safe Browsing checks are clean, but one saved antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. The mismatch between the claimed US operation and the China return path, combined with the template-style contact pattern, is the kind of setup where returns and after-sales support can become difficult, so the score sits in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
A US-facing storefront with a China return path
The store's refund and shipping terms direct customers to send returns to Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China, and state that the customer is responsible for return shipping. That is a concrete logistics fact taken from the site's own policy text, and it sits awkwardly beside the Denver, Colorado business address the site presents as its operator.
Customer contact is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain. That pattern is common in template-based shop networks and gives a buyer no named person, no phone number and no verifiable local support channel to escalate a problem to.
Clean technical checks do not resolve the operator question
The saved connection check found a valid encrypted connection and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, so there is no evidence of an active malware or phishing payload on the page as observed. One saved antivirus result did mark the URL as suspicious, which is a real but stale signal rather than a current detection.
The domain is roughly three years old, which is longer than the throwaway domains typical of pure fake shops and is a mild supportive point. It does not, however, verify the Denver address, the identity of the operator, or whether a customer who needs a refund will actually get one.
Why the score is 58
The store's refund, shipping or terms pages send returns to mainland China or Hong Kong. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
1/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from October 2, 2026 - stale
1 engine flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 1
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| GridinsoftSuspicious | suspicious |
All 92 engine results
- Gridinsoft - Suspicious
- 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
- 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
- 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 ThreatSeekershopping
- Googleshopping
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
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Visual context from the captured page
WELFAREIS
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
WELFAREIS
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
welfareis
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-conditionsRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/return-refund-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
welfareis
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
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
- 01The store's refund, shipping or terms pages send returns to mainland China or Hong Kong.
- 02Customer contact is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain, a pattern repeated across template-based shop networks.
- 031 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a buyer actually walks into
A visitor arriving at the storefront sees heavy discount framing such as Buy 1 Get 1 Free on a hair styling spray and Buy 3 Get 5 Free on a car scratch repair pen, with crossed-out regular prices and sale prices shown side by side. Those promotions push a larger basket than a single-item purchase.
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.
Checkout runs through the standard Shopify flow, which is a normal commercial path rather than a deceptive one. The exposure comes after the sale: if the item is wrong or unwanted, the site's own policy requires the buyer to ship it back to Dongguan City, China, at the buyer's expense, while the only contact route is a generic service@ mailbox.
Treat Welfareis as a moderate-risk storefront rather than a proven scam. If you buy, use a payment method with chargeback protection, keep the order confirmation and the return-policy page, and expect that any return may have to be shipped to China at your own cost. Do not rely on the Denver address as a local support or returns location, and be cautious with the multi-buy promotions until you have confirmed the store will actually ship and stand behind the order.
Web research findings
Independent findings for welfareis.com, 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.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for welfareis.com. 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.
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. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainwelfareis.com
- Redirects towelfareis.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.shopifycdn.com · cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 30, 2023Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 27, 2026Saved 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.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (service@welfareis.com).
- Phone number listed (+86 133 6066 3005).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for welfareis.com.
A shared content-delivery network 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
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- cdnjs
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://welfareis.com/
- 2200https://welfareis.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- 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.
1 antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The store's refund, shipping or terms pages send returns to mainland China or Hong Kong. · Customer contact is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain, a pattern repeated across template-based shop networks.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 1 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 27, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result1 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 2, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 27, 2026
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 welfareis.com a scam or is it safe?
Is welfareis.com safe to use?
Has welfareis.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is welfareis.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Welfareis is a Shopify storefront with a US business address but a China return address and a generic service mailbox, so buyer protection is unclear.
Welfareis presents itself as an online shop selling discounted personal-care and car-care items, with aggressive multi-buy promotions and a standard Shopify checkout. The site's own return policy sends returns to Dongguan City in Guangdong Province, China, while the operator is described as a Denver, Colorado company, and customer contact is a generic service@ mailbox on the store's own domain. The domain is about three years old and the saved connection and Safe Browsing checks are clean, but one saved antivirus result marked the URL as suspicious. The mismatch between the claimed US operation and the China return path, combined with the template-style contact pattern, is the kind of setup where returns and after-sales support can become difficult, so the score sits in the moderate-risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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