beautiesofvermontstore.shop is an e-commerce scam posing as Beau Ties of Vermont, the American maker of handmade bow ties, neckties and pocket squares. It uses the brand's own style of page title, "Handmade in the USA: Bow Ties, Neckties and Pocket Squares Experts", and adds "store" to a lookalike of the brand name on a cheap .shop domain. It targets gift buyers and menswear shoppers who search for the brand and land on what looks like its official storefront. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-10-12, and it was still online and serving its shop pages on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Fake brand shops like this copy the real catalogue and photography, then list the products at steep "sale" discounts to rush the buyer to checkout. The shopper enters a name, shipping address and card details and pays for ties that never arrive. Sometimes a cheap unrelated item is shipped instead so a tracking number exists. The victim loses the purchase amount and also hands over card data and personal details that can be reused or sold. A crafted page title naming a real artisan brand is what makes the site convincing in search results and shared ads.
Evidence
On 2026-10-16, 11 of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain. They include BitDefender, ESET, G-Data, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Gridinsoft and LevelBlue, a spread of independent vendors rather than a single outlier. urlscan.io rated the site malicious and specifically identified it as a fake shop, which matches our classification. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses, showing other researchers are tracking it.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-07-19, about 85 days before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap is consistent with a store being built out before it goes live to buyers. It is hosted on the Malakmadze Web LLC network in Georgia, far from the Vermont brand it imitates. The free Let's Encrypt certificate gives it a browser padlock, which proves nothing about whether the seller is legitimate.
What to do
If you placed an order, call your card issuer now. Report the charge as fraud, request a chargeback and ask for a replacement card. Watch your statements for further unfamiliar charges, and treat follow-up emails about "delivery problems" or refunds as likely phishing. Buy only through the brand's own known site or a verified retailer. Security teams and mail filters should block the domain, and payment providers can use these indicators to flag merchant accounts tied to it.
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Evidence layersAvailability: Content servingContent: Content served at rootDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation활성 콘텐츠Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-19 10:34:52 UTC
RDAP registration알 수 없음
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 10:34:52 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 10:34:52 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.
기술 · 1 identified
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After a phishing incident
피해자를 위한 권고 사항 및 조언
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
지금 당장 어떻게 해야 할까요?
긴급
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
모든 비밀번호 변경 — 이메일, 익스체인지 계정 등, 동일한 비밀번호를 사용하는 모든 것
2단계 인증 활성화 인증 앱(SMS 제외)을 사용합니다. SMS 기반 복구 기능을 비활성화하세요.
카드 동결 피싱 사이트에 은행 계좌 정보를 입력한 경우
보고서를 작성하기 위해 어떤 정보를 수집해야 할까요?
FBI 지침
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.
정확한 날짜 및 시간 — 각 거래 내역 및 사기범과의 첫 접촉 시점
스크린샷 — 사기 웹사이트, 채팅 메시지, 이메일, 지갑 거래, 소셜 미디어
모든 URL 및 도메인 사기꾼이 사용한 (다음과 같은 것들을 포함하여 beautiesofvermontstore.shop)
커뮤니케이션 — 사기꾼이 사용한 이메일, 문자, 전화번호, 사용자 이름
비록 모든 세부 사항을 알지 못하더라도 — 어쨌든 신고를 하세요. 부분적인 정보라도 수사에 도움이 됩니다.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
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A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
How do phishing scams typically work?
가짜 웹사이트 — 도메인을 약간만 변경한, 정식 사이트와 픽셀 단위로 완벽하게 일치하는 복제 사이트
pig butchering — Telegram·왓츠앱·데이트 앱을 통해 몇 주에 걸쳐 신뢰를 쌓은 뒤, 돈을 훔쳐갔다
회복 사기 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
AI를 이용한 사기 — 딥페이크, 자동화된 피싱, AI로 생성된 사이트 등으로 인해 사기 행각을 적발하기가 더 어려워지고 있다
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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.
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