bbbshop.shop presents itself as "Tienda Online de Zapatos en Panamá | bbb Shoes", a Spanish-language shoe retailer aimed at buyers in Panama. PhishDestroy classifies it as an e-commerce scam: a fake online shop that takes payment for goods it does not deliver. We first saw it on 2026-10-11, and it was still online and serving its storefront on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Fake shops like this copy the look of a normal footwear store, with product photos, sizes and checkout. They then use discounts that seem too good to be true to push quick purchases. The buyer enters a delivery address, phone number and card or bank details, pays, and then receives nothing, a cheap item unrelated to the order, or a run of tracking excuses until the dispute window closes. The victim loses the purchase money and also hands over personal and payment details that can be reused for fraud or follow-up phishing.
Evidence
On 2026-10-16, 9 of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain. The flagging vendors include alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, CyRadar, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data and Gridinsoft. That is a minority of engines, but it spans several unrelated security vendors. urlscan.io rated the site malicious and specifically marked it as a fake shop, which independently supports our classification. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses and is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-04-27, about five and a half months before we detected it. A storefront that runs quietly for months before being flagged can collect orders from many buyers in that time. It is hosted at 31.222.234.243 on the Malakmadze Web LLC network in the US, far from the Panamanian customers it addresses. Its padlock comes from a free Let's Encrypt certificate, which only encrypts the connection and says nothing about whether the seller is genuine.
What to do
If you ordered from bbbshop.shop, contact your bank or card issuer right away to report the charge as fraud and request a chargeback. Keep screenshots of the order and any emails as evidence. If you entered card details, ask for the card to be cancelled and reissued. Be wary of calls or messages about "delivery problems" or refunds that ask for more payment or data. Defenders and payment providers should block the domain and its hosting IP and flag related merchant activity.
For this gTLD, the registrar above operates under an ICANN accreditation agreement. The links below provide the official fee schedule and current DNS abuse compliance guidance.
Accreditation is a contract, not a safety certification.
RAA §3.18 establishes abuse-contact and handling requirements. This report can document stored outbound notices and later technical observations; it does not by itself establish receipt, investigation, remediation, or contractual non-compliance.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Evidence layersAvailability: Content servingContent: Content served at rootDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observationコンテンツ公開中Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-19 22:34:26 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:34:26 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:34:26 UTC
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
Recorded subdomains1
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
img.bbbshop.shopDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
使用技術 · 1 identified
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HTTP/3
Miscellaneous
HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
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