Is wineshope.com safe?
http://wineshope.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Wineshope presents itself as a US wine retailer, but its identity is unverified and historical security data flags the domain as malicious or phishing.
Wineshope (wineshope.com) is a Shopify-hosted storefront selling wine with standard 'Add to cart' checkout. The site lists a Hayward, California head office, an on-domain email and a phone number, and the domain is 866 days old. However, saved antivirus data shows three independent security vendors flagged the domain as malicious or phishing, and the claimed address does not match the well-known '1-800 WINESHOP.COM, INC.' entity based in Napa, California. Because the operator's identity is unverified and adverse security history exists, the site sits in the High 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 42/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 2 findings pulled the score down; 5 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.-5 pts
- ModerateThe site's claimed head office in Hayward, CA does not match the known Napa, CA address of the established '1-800 WINESHOP.COM, INC.' entity, raising impersonation concerns.-1 pts
What pushed the score up
- SupportsPostal address visible on the page.
- SupportsThe site lists an on-domain email address and a phone number, providing some contactability.
- SupportsThe domain is 866 days old, which is longer than many throwaway scam domains.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning for this domain.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
Points come from the saved evidence ledger: it lowered the score from 48 to 42 and split those 6 points between the findings that show points; the others carry no points in the ledger. Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
Lost money or shared details on wineshope.com? 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 wineshope.com, 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
Network Solutions, LLC takes abuse reports at domain.operations@web.com (+1.8777228662). 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
Wineshope (wineshope.com) is a Shopify-hosted storefront selling wine with standard 'Add to cart' checkout. The site lists a Hayward, California head office, an on-domain email and a phone number, and the domain is 866 days old. However, saved antivirus data shows three independent security vendors flagged the domain as malicious or phishing, and the claimed address does not match the well-known '1-800 WINESHOP.COM, INC.' entity based in Napa, California. Because the operator's identity is unverified and adverse security history exists, the site sits in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
A wine shop with a mismatched identity
The site presents itself as a wine retailer and lists a head office at 1930 W. Winton Avenue, Hayward, CA 94545, USA, along with a phone number and an email address on its own domain. These are the only operator details visible on the page.
The name 'Wineshope' is close to the established '1-800 WINESHOP.COM, INC.' (WineShop At Home), which is based in Napa, California. The Hayward address does not match that entity's known location, so the site's claimed identity cannot be confirmed as the same business. This mismatch is a warning sign, though it does not by itself prove impersonation.
Security flags and unverified operator
Saved antivirus data shows that three independent security vendors — alphaMountain.ai, Criminal IP and Fortinet — reported an adverse result for this domain, flagging it as malicious or phishing. This is historical data rather than a fresh scan, but the detection is real and directly relevant to visitor safety.
On the positive side, the domain is 866 days old, the browser threat feed returned no threat warning, and the saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection. These are reassuring technical signals, but they do not verify the operator's identity or the legitimacy of the business behind the storefront.
Why the score is 42
3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 23, 2026 - stale
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 3
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiMalicious | malicious |
| Criminal IPMalicious | phishing |
| FortinetMalicious | malware |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - Malicious
- Criminal IP - phishing - Malicious
- Fortinet - malware - Malicious
- 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
- 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
- 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
- alphaMountain.aiMalicious
- 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
Welcome to Our Wine Shop
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Welcome to Our Wine Shop
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
Wine Shipping
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/policies/terms-of-serviceRead
- Shipping policy/policies/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contactRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Wine Shipping
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
- 013 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 02The domain is 866 days old, which is longer than many throwaway scam domains.
- 03The site lists an on-domain email address and a phone number, providing some contactability.
If this is a scam — what it means for you
What a visitor actually experiences
A visitor browsing the store sees wine products with prices and an 'Add to cart' button. Clicking it adds the item to a Shopify-powered cart, leading toward a checkout flow.
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.
The checkout is hosted on Shopify, a mainstream e-commerce platform, and the site links to Shopify's privacy policy. This means payment processing is handled by a known third party, but it does not guarantee that the merchant is trustworthy or that goods will be delivered.
Do not enter payment or personal details on this site until you can independently verify the business behind it. The claimed address does not match the well-known wine retailer of a similar name, and historical security data flags the domain as malicious or phishing. If you want to buy wine online, use a retailer you can confirm is legitimate through independent reviews and a verifiable physical address.
Web research findings
Independent findings for wineshope.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 wineshope.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.
- Domainwineshope.com
- Redirects towineshope.com
- Hosted byShopify, Inc.
- Referencesfonts.shopifycdn.com · cdn.shopify.com
Domain Timeline
- Jun 13, 2024Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 2 years old when this review was saved.
- Oct 27, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
wineshope.com is an established domain now carrying threat signals. An older domain that starts tripping security checks is a classic pattern for an asset that was sold, repurposed, or compromised — the age alone is not reassurance.
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 (info@wineshope.com).
- Phone number listed (+1 (650) 477-9155).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for wineshope.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.
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://wineshope.com/
- 2200https://wineshope.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
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
3 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. 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 site's claimed head office in Hayward, CA does not match the known Napa, CA address of the established '1-800 WINESHOP.COM, INC.' entity, raising impersonation concerns.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 23, 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
- Result3 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 23, 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 wineshope.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is wineshope.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on wineshope.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from wineshope.com?
I ordered from wineshope.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report wineshope.com?
wineshope.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has wineshope.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is wineshope.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the wineshope.com domain?
Does wineshope.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the wineshope.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Wineshope presents itself as a US wine retailer, but its identity is unverified and historical security data flags the domain as malicious or phishing.
Wineshope (wineshope.com) is a Shopify-hosted storefront selling wine with standard 'Add to cart' checkout. The site lists a Hayward, California head office, an on-domain email and a phone number, and the domain is 866 days old. However, saved antivirus data shows three independent security vendors flagged the domain as malicious or phishing, and the claimed address does not match the well-known '1-800 WINESHOP.COM, INC.' entity based in Napa, California. Because the operator's identity is unverified and adverse security history exists, the site sits in the High Risk band rather than Safe.
09 · Community
Community
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