bigelowtea.shop is a fraudulent storefront that passes itself off as the official Bigelow Tea store. Its page title copies the brand's own wording: "Official Site - Shop for Tea Online at the Bigelow Tea Store | Bigelow Tea". It targets ordinary shoppers looking for discounted tea and gifts. PhishDestroy first detected it on 2026-10-16, and it was still online with its shop content live on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Fake shops like this copy a real brand's catalogue and look, then advertise prices low enough to make buyers act fast. The shopper fills a cart, enters a shipping address and pays, usually by card. The order either never arrives or a cheap substitute shows up, and the checkout form gives the operators the buyer's name, address, email and payment card details, which can be reused for further fraud. The .shop domain and the "Official Site" title are what make the store look like a genuine Bigelow outlet.
Evidence
urlscan.io rated the site malicious and specifically flagged it as a fake shop, which is the strongest independent signal here. On VirusTotal, 4 of 92 engines flagged it on 2026-10-16: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, G-Data and Gridinsoft. That count is low, so most browser and antivirus protections will not warn visitors yet. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses and is on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-05-21, about five months before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests the domain was registered in advance and put into use later. The site is hosted in the US on the Malakmadze Web LLC network. Its certificate is a free Let's Encrypt certificate, so the browser padlock only means the connection is encrypted. It says nothing about whether the shop is the real Bigelow Tea.
What to do
Do not buy anything from bigelowtea.shop. If you already paid, contact your card issuer or bank right away, report the charge as fraud, ask for a chargeback and have the card replaced. Watch your statements for further unauthorized charges, and expect phishing emails aimed at the address you used at checkout. Report the site to Bigelow Tea so the brand can pursue a takedown. Security teams should block the domain and its hosting IP and check proxy logs for any user purchases.
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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%2026-10-21 10:44:25 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-21 10:44:25 UTClast content: 2026-10-21 10:44:25 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.
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.
Google PageSpeed Insights — mobile performance audit of bigelowtea.shop· checked Oct 16, 2026
76
Needs Work
Performance
FCP
2.93s
First Contentful Paint
LCP
4.4s
Largest Contentful Paint
CLS
0.025
Cumulative Layout Shift
TBT
215ms
Total Blocking Time
SI
2.98s
Speed Index
Powered by Google PageSpeed Insights · Mobile strategy · Scores: 90-100 Good50-89 Needs Work0-49 Poor
Stored Capture Evidence 1 snapshot
Timestamped response metadata retained by the local collection pipeline. Each value below belongs to the displayed archive time.
Archived HTTP responseHTTP 200
Requested URL:http://bigelowtea.shop/
Final URL:https://bigelowtea.shop/
Official Site - Shop for Tea Online at the Bigelow Tea Store | Bigelow Tea
A family owned company, Bigelow Tea is committed to crafting diverse high-quality teas. Purchase a wide selection of Bigelow Green, Herbal, Black, and Organic Teas, plus Bigelow Benefits Wellness Teas, Botanicals Cold Water Infusions, and Tea Gifts online.
HSTS: not observedDNSSEC: not observedWAF / firewall: not observedCloaking flag: not observed
Open Graph title:Official Site - Shop for Tea Online at the Bigelow Tea Store
Open Graph description:A family owned company, Bigelow Tea is committed to crafting diverse high-quality teas. Purchase a wide selection of Bigelow Green, Herbal, Black, and Organic Teas, plus Bigelow Benefits Wellness Teas, Botanicals Cold Water Infusions, and Tea Gifts online.
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
This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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