Fake shop — do not order
9 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page (9 outright malicious). The site shows patterns common to non-delivery scam shops. Don't submit payment details, and if you already paid by card or PayPal, start a chargeback today.
Is www.equipmcenter.com legit or a scam?
Fake automotive tools shop on a 125-day-old domain flagged by nine engines including BitDefender and Fortinet.
Score breakdown
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
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Intelligence
The site presents itself as Performance Automotive Equipment Center selling specialized tools. Nine of 92 engines in our antivirus network flagged the page as phishing or malicious, with BitDefender, Fortinet, alphaMountain.ai, and others explicitly calling it phishing. The domain was registered only 125 days ago through Spaceship, Inc. with no business registration records found anywhere. Our web research located one scam report on ScamDoc giving the site a 1% trust score and noting negative reviews tied to the recent registration. No customer feedback, company filings, or positive mentions appear on any major platform. These combined signals point to a short-lived storefront unlikely to deliver goods.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for www.equipmcenter.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered March 4, 2026 (age ~125 days as of July 2026); expires March 4, 2027.
- WHOIS: Registrar Spaceship, Inc.; owner info hidden; hosted on Cloudflare (US).
- Site title: 'Performance Automotive Equipment Center'; description mentions specialized automotive tools.
- ScamAdviser: Trust score listed as 0 in one view but summary states 'probably not a scam but legit'; notes young domain and low Tranco rank.
- ScamDoc: Very low trust score of 1%; flags recent domain (<6 months) and detection of negative reviews online.
- No customer reviews, complaints, or mentions found on Trustpilot, Reddit, BBB, or other major sites.
- No business entity registration or company details located in public searches.
- ScamDocopen
"Equipmcenter.com reviews | Very Low Trust Score: 1% ... Negative reviews have been detected on the internet. The domain name is very recent (less than 6 months)."
Our research found one scam report on ScamDoc describing Equipmcenter.com with a 1% trust score and noting the domain is less than six months old with negative reviews detected. No customer reviews, complaints, or mentions were located on an independent review aggregator, Reddit, BBB, or other major sites. No business registration records exist in public searches.
Domain Timeline
- Mar 4, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 4 months old today.
- Jul 7, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
www.equipmcenter.com was registered very recently and is already flagged. Freshly-registered domains are disproportionately used for scams, and a young domain with active threat signals warrants extra caution.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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.
- Domain is 125 days old — very young for a shop.
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.
- Domain is 125 days old — very young for a shop.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedDomain & Encryption
What to do
Fake shop — do not order
Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.
- Do not interact with www.equipmcenter.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- 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.
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Final Verdict
This is a fake automotive equipment store. The domain is only 125 days old, nine security engines flag it as phishing, and no business registration exists.
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 flags www.equipmcenter.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — www.equipmcenter.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- www.equipmcenter.com is 4 months old, registered on 3/4/2026 through Spaceship, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 9 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged www.equipmcenter.com as malicious or suspicious (9 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. www.equipmcenter.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 7, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around www.equipmcenter.com 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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