Is yorkreporter.com safe?
http://yorkreporter.com/
Checked on
How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (58 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
Yorkreporter.com exhibits signs of a deceptive storefront operation
Yorkreporter.com presents as a commercial shop but displays significant inconsistencies, including a mismatch between its branding and the site's underlying template. The operator is linked to multiple storefronts, and the site has been flagged by security vendors, indicating a high risk of commercial deception.
Loading saved screenshot
Preparing the saved page preview.
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 40/100
High Risk covers scores 21–44. 2 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Moderate2 antivirus results 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.
- MinorThe site lacks a phone number and a clear physical address.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection
- SupportsThe registrable domain is 2248 days old
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.
Lost money or shared details on yorkreporter.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 yorkreporter.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
Dynadot Inc takes abuse reports at abuse@dynadot.com (+16502620100). 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
Yorkreporter.com presents as a commercial shop but displays significant inconsistencies, including a mismatch between its branding and the site's underlying template. The operator is linked to multiple storefronts, and the site has been flagged by security vendors, indicating a high risk of commercial deception.
Operational and Technical Risks
The site is operated by 'HONGKONG KATE LIMITED', an entity associated with multiple disparate storefronts, which is a common pattern for low-trust e-commerce networks. Furthermore, the site lacks essential transparency, failing to provide a phone number or a verifiable physical address on its main pages.
Technical security checks reveal that the domain has been flagged as suspicious by multiple antivirus engines. While the site uses a valid TLS certificate, these security flags suggest a history of problematic behavior that outweighs the site's domain age.
Inconsistent Site Content
The site's content is highly irregular; while it is marketed as a shop, the live site displays a 'Job Portal' template. This discrepancy between the intended commercial purpose and the actual site structure is a strong indicator of a non-genuine operation.
Why the score is 40
The site lacks a phone number and a clear physical address. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
2/ 93
detectionsSaved analysis from October 7, 2026 - stale
2 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 2
- Total
- 93
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| alphaMountain.aiSuspicious | suspicious |
| FortinetSuspicious | spam |
All 93 engine results
- alphaMountain.ai - Suspicious
- Fortinet - spam - Suspicious
- 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
- 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
- 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 - Unrated
- 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.aiSuspicious
- BitDefendermisc
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerfinancial data and services
- 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
Loading saved screenshot
Preparing the saved page preview.
Visual context from the captured page
Yorkreporter
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Yorkreporter
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
yorkreporter
- Meta description
- The same text as the page title
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- About page/pages/about-usRead
- Terms/pages/terms-of-serviceRead
- Refund / returns policy/pages/return-policyRead
- Shipping policy/pages/shipping-policyRead
- Contact page/pages/contact-usRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
yorkreporter
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 58 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
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 own pages name a company in Hong Kong or mainland China as the business behind it.
- 022 antivirus results 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.
- 03The site lacks a phone number and a clear physical address.
Web research findings
Independent findings for yorkreporter.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.
- COLTD.HKopen
"HONGKONG KATE LIMITED is a business entity registered in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. Incorporated on 02-04-2024"
- docmienphi.comopen
"Company Name: HONGKONG KATE LIMITED Company Address: FLAT/RM 602 6/F KAI YUE COMMERCIAL BUILDING NO.2C ARGYLE STREET MONGKOK KL"
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.
- Domainyorkreporter.com
- Redirects towww.yorkreporter.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesimg.staticdj.com · static.staticdj.com
Domain Timeline
- Sep 5, 2020Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 6 years old when this review was saved.
- Nov 2, 2026Saved security review — Rated High Risk
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
yorkreporter.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.
- No phone number listed on the captured page.
- No operator postal address visible on the captured page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (customer@yorkreporter.com).
Domain & Encryption
Report this domain to its registrar: send the address and what happened to this contact.
Certificate issued for www.yorkreporter.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- Google Fonts
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://yorkreporter.com/
- 2301https://yorkreporter.com/
- 3200https://www.yorkreporter.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.
2 antivirus results 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
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The site lacks a phone number and a clear physical address.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 2 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Oct 7, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 2, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result2 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 7, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 2, 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 yorkreporter.com a scam or a legit online store?
Is yorkreporter.com safe to use?
I already paid or entered my details on yorkreporter.com — what should I do?
Can I get my money back from yorkreporter.com?
I ordered from yorkreporter.com but nothing arrived — is it a fake shop?
How do I report yorkreporter.com?
yorkreporter.com looks professional — how can it still be a scam?
Has yorkreporter.com been flagged by antivirus engines?
Is yorkreporter.com on any phishing or malware blacklists?
How old is the yorkreporter.com domain?
Does yorkreporter.com have a valid SSL certificate?
How often is the yorkreporter.com report updated?
08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Yorkreporter.com exhibits signs of a deceptive storefront operation
Yorkreporter.com presents as a commercial shop but displays significant inconsistencies, including a mismatch between its branding and the site's underlying template. The operator is linked to multiple storefronts, and the site has been flagged by security vendors, indicating a high risk of commercial deception.
09 · Community
Community
Are you the owner of yorkreporter.com?Verify and reply