chikmagalur.shop is an impersonation phishing page that presented itself as a shop called Vellomart, with the browser tab reading "Vellomart – Vellomart". The domain name points to the Indian coffee town of Chikmagalur and has nothing to do with the brand it displayed. That mismatch is typical of throwaway domains reused for copied storefronts. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-03. The site has been offline since 2026-10-14 and was still unreachable at the last check on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Schemes like this copy the look and name of a retailer, here Vellomart, and present a working-looking catalogue, often with steep discounts to push quick purchases. The real goal is the checkout page. It collects names, delivery addresses, phone numbers, email logins and full payment card details, and orders are rarely or never fulfilled. Victims lose the money they paid. They also face follow-on card fraud and targeted phishing that uses the personal details they typed in.
Evidence
On 2026-09-16, VirusTotal showed 4 of 89 engines flagging the domain: alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft and SOCRadar. That count is low, which is common for short-lived shop clones that rotate domains faster than most vendors catch them. Four independent vendors still agreed, and the domain appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses. Those pulses tie it to infrastructure other researchers are tracking. PhishDestroy lists it on its own blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Spaceship, Inc. under the .shop extension, a common choice for disposable storefronts because it looks credible to shoppers. It was hosted on a US-based address, 35.206.71.20, in a cloud provider's address range. The site lasted roughly six weeks between our first detection on 2026-09-03 and going dark on 2026-10-14. That short lifespan fits operators who spin up a storefront, harvest orders, and move on.
What to do
If you bought anything or entered card details on this site, contact your bank or card issuer right away. Ask them to block the card, dispute the charge and issue a replacement. If you created an account or reused a password there, change that password wherever you used it and turn on two-factor authentication for your email. Be wary of calls, texts or emails mentioning a Vellomart order, since your contact details may now be in a scammer's hands. Defenders should block the domain and its hosting IP, and add it to email and web filters in case it reappears under the same infrastructure.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年10月9日score 81/1001 brand signal
Submitted URLhttp://chikmagalur.shop/
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ICANN OVERSIGHT
認定と RAA の背景
Registrar accreditation and DNS abuse obligations
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.
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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The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
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