bentclubstore.shop is a fraudulent web store. Its storefront is titled "Verbindbare Sonnensegel, Teppiche, Kissenrollen" (connectable sun sails, rugs, cushion rolls), so it is aimed at German-speaking customers shopping for garden and home textiles. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-10-13. When last checked on 2026-10-19, the shop was still online and serving its full catalogue.
How the scam works
Shops like this list ordinary seasonal products, often at prices well below normal, to draw buyers in through ads or search results. The checkout accepts the order and takes payment, but the shade sails and rugs either never arrive or are replaced by cheap items that bear no resemblance to the listing. Victims lose the purchase price. The card details, delivery address and contact information they typed in also stay with the operators, who can reuse them for further fraud.
Evidence
On 2026-10-17, VirusTotal showed 7 of 92 engines flagging the domain: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, LevelBlue and SOCRadar. That is a modest share, but it comes from seven unrelated vendors. urlscan.io rated the site malicious and specifically marked it as a fake shop, which matches our classification. The domain also appears in two AlienVault OTX threat pulses and is on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-05-26, about 140 days before we detected it. That gap is long enough to suggest the domain was registered in advance and given time to age before the storefront went live. The site is hosted on the Malakmadze Web LLC network in the United States. Nothing about the setup reflects a German retailer, even though the shop is written for German buyers.
What to do
If you ordered from this shop, contact your bank or card issuer now, report the transaction as fraud and ask for a chargeback. If you paid through PayPal or a similar service, open a dispute there before its deadline. Keep your order confirmation and any emails as evidence, and watch your card statements for unfamiliar charges. Be wary of follow-up messages offering refunds or delivery updates, since these are often used to collect more personal data. Defenders and ad platforms should block the domain and remove any shopping ads that point to it.
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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 22:43:57 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:43:57 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:43:57 UTC
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Recorded subdomains1
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
www.bentclubstore.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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