beautyboosted.shop poses as the storefront for a hair-growth product, with pages titled "Follicle Booster - Start Your Follicle Journey." It targets people worried about thinning hair who are shopping for a quick beauty fix. PhishDestroy classifies it as an e-commerce scam and first flagged it on 2026-10-12. On 2026-10-19 the domain was still online and redirecting visitors.
How the scam works
Fake shops like this one draw buyers in with polished product pages, before-and-after promises and discounts that push for a fast checkout. The "Follicle Booster" branding sells the idea of a personal hair-regrowth plan. Victims pay by card and usually receive nothing, receive a cheap item unrelated to the listing, or find recurring charges they never agreed to. The payment and personal details entered at checkout, including name, address, phone and card number, also stay with the operators and can be reused for fraud.
Evidence
Nine of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as of 2026-10-16. The vendors include alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, Gridinsoft, LevelBlue, Netcraft and SOCRadar. That count is modest, but it comes from independent vendors that reached the same conclusion. urlscan.io rated the site malicious and specifically identified it as a fake shop, which matches our classification. The domain also appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses and is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-06-22, nearly four months before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests a storefront that was set up and run quietly before it drew attention. It is hosted on the Malakmadze Web LLC network in the United States. The free, automatically issued TLS certificate gives the checkout page a padlock icon, but that only means the connection is encrypted and says nothing about whether the shop is honest.
What to do
If you ordered from this site, call your card issuer now. Report the charge as fraud, ask for a chargeback and request a replacement card so any recurring billing stops. Check your statements over the coming months for small or repeated charges you do not recognize. Treat follow-up emails, texts or calls about your "order" or a "refund" as possible phishing, and do not pay any extra fees. Security teams should block the domain and its hosting IP and watch for lookalike beauty-product storefronts that use the same "Follicle Booster" branding.
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Latest HTTP observationRedirectingHTTP redirect observed80%2026-10-19 10:01:02 UTC
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Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 10:01:02 UTC
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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
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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 beautyboosted.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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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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공식 사이트 즐겨찾기 추가 — 이메일, DM 또는 광고에 포함된 링크는 절대 클릭하지 마세요
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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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