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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Certificate fingerprint1831f2eeff447189b41a90b172a3f7bc28989cdab28c47b3f36da83672fe7a7dCertificate names · 1 SANs
beautiesofvermontstore.shop
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内容在线Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-21 10:33:10 UTC
RDAP registration未知
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-21 10:33:10 UTClast content: 2026-10-21 10:33:10 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.
技术 · 1 identified
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After a phishing incident
针对受害者的建议与指导
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
我应该立即采取什么措施？
紧急
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
更改所有密码 — 电子邮件、Exchange 账户，以及任何使用同一密码的账户
启用双因素认证 使用身份验证器应用（而非短信）。禁用基于短信的恢复功能
冻结卡片 如果您在钓鱼网站上输入了银行信息
我应该为报告收集哪些信息？
联邦调查局（FBI）指南
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.
当地警方 — 即使无法立即采取行动，也能留下正式记录
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?
虚假网站 — 与正规网站完全一致的克隆网站，仅域名略有改动
猪的屠宰 — 通过Telegram/WhatsApp/交友软件花数周时间建立信任，随后钱被骗走
退款诈骗 — 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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