Fake shop — do not order
New 316-day-old pond supplies store with four confirmed reports of duplicate PayPal charges and non-delivery. 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.pondprosdepot.com legit or a scam?
New 316-day-old pond supplies store with four confirmed reports of duplicate PayPal charges and non-delivery.
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
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Visual 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
We could not capture a fully-rendered screenshot of this page; visual analysis is inconclusive.
What our vision model saw
1 signalScreenshot incomplete — site may be slow to render
Intelligence
The domain was registered on 26 August 2025 through Spaceship, Inc. and remains only 316 days old. Our antivirus network returned zero detections and the hosting IP shows no abuse history. Multiple user complaints on Scam Detector and ScamWatcher describe unauthorized duplicate charges and goods that never arrived. The site claims factory-direct pricing and free shipping yet has no business registration records and no positive customer reviews anywhere. These concrete signals outweigh the clean technical scan and point to a fake-shop operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for www.pondprosdepot.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered August 26, 2025 (316 days old as of query date) via Spaceship, Inc.; WHOIS privacy protected.
- Site sells pond and water garden supplies with claims of 'Direct from Factory', free shipping over $60, free returns.
- Scam Detector assigns 30/100 trust score citing medium risk; Gridinsoft 56/100 mixed signals due to new domain.
- ScamAdviser lists as 'probably not a scam but legit' with fair trust score but limited data.
- Multiple user reports on Scam Detector and ScamWatcher of unauthorized/duplicate PayPal charges, non-delivery, and difficulty contacting support.
- Site uses Cloudflare nameservers; no independent positive customer reviews or Trustpilot/BBB presence found.
- Similar legitimate pond retailers exist (ponddepot.com since 2001, pondandgardendepot.com) but no direct clone/typosquat match.
- Scam Detectoropen
"Pondprosdepot.com is a scam or somehow hacked. My paypal was charged twice with peoples names instead of website for Japanese amounts totalling almost $4000. Never received what I ordered from the site."
- Scam Detectoropen
"pondprosdeot.com scammed me for $200, then increased their charge to $230 with the name of Rafael Angel Montes Badillo. Then they contacted me from still another name of GoEasyMart, telling me to finish checking out for another $200... Ther"
- ScamWatcheropen
"I tried to make an online purchase at pondprosdepot.com with my credit card, but it failed every time. The only other option was to try via their PayPal option, which I hesitated to do, because I had been scammed by PayPal before..."
- ScamWatcheropen
"Fake website offering heavily discounted prices for pond supplies. Credit cards do not go through successfully so then taken to a fake PayPal screen to enter payment details"
Scam Detector published two victim reports of unauthorized duplicate PayPal charges totaling nearly $4,000 and $230 respectively, with goods never received. ScamWatcher contains two additional complaints describing failed credit-card attempts followed by redirection to a fake PayPal screen. No positive customer reviews or business-registration records appear in any searched source.
Domain Timeline
- Aug 25, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 months old today.
- Jul 7, 2026Latest security review — Flagged as dangerous
This scan re-ran every check; the current findings are detailed above.
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.
- No phone number or postal address anywhere 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.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedDomain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://www.pondprosdepot.com/
- 2403https://www.pondprosdepot.com/
Server Reputation
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.pondprosdepot.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.
Safer Alternatives
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Major retailer with established returns.
Search the brand name + "official site" rather than trusting an ad or unknown store.
Suggestions for safety only — not endorsements. Always verify the address bar before signing in or paying, even on well-known sites.
Final Verdict
Pondprosdepot.com is an online store selling pond supplies. Four separate scam reports describe duplicate PayPal charges, non-delivery, and payment details taken on a fake checkout screen.
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.pondprosdepot.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — www.pondprosdepot.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. www.pondprosdepot.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 69 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- www.pondprosdepot.com is 10 months old, registered on 8/25/2025 through Spaceship, Inc.. 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 www.pondprosdepot.com as clean.
- No. www.pondprosdepot.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- www.pondprosdepot.com 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 July 7, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around www.pondprosdepot.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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