birdinhandonline.shop is a fake online shop that presented itself as "Downtown Chico | Bird in Hand", a gift-and-boutique style storefront aimed at bargain-hunting online shoppers. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-10-16. The site has since gone dark: its DNS stopped resolving and it has been offline since 2026-10-19. The page title reads like a genuine local Chico store, while our analysis classifies the domain as an e-commerce scam.
How the scam works
Shops like this borrow a familiar or friendly-sounding store name, here "Bird in Hand" with a Downtown Chico tag, and fill a catalogue with products at steep discounts to push quick checkouts. The victim enters a delivery address, phone number and card details, pays, and then receives nothing, a cheap substitute, or tracking that never moves. Beyond the lost payment, the card and personal data collected at checkout can be reused for further fraud or resold.
Evidence
Seven of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain on 2026-10-16: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, Gridinsoft, LevelBlue and Netcraft. That is a modest count, but it comes from vendors that independently track fraud and phishing. urlscan.io rated the site malicious and specifically marked it as a fake shop, which matches our classification. The domain also appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses, so other researchers had picked it up as well.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-05-26. That is nearly five months before PhishDestroy detected it, which suggests it was either kept in reserve or traded quietly before it drew attention. It was hosted on the Malakmadze Web LLC network in Georgia, an unusual home for a store presenting itself as a Northern California boutique. Its free Let's Encrypt certificate gave shoppers the padlock icon, which proves nothing about whether a merchant is legitimate.
What to do
If you paid on this site, contact your bank or card issuer now, report the charge as fraud, and ask for a chargeback and a replacement card. Watch your statements for unfamiliar charges, and treat follow-up emails or calls about your "order" or a refund as likely phishing. If you created an account, change that password anywhere you reused it. Defenders should block the domain and its hosting IP, check proxy and payment logs for customer contact with it, and report any lookalike Bird in Hand shop domains as they appear.
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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.
Primary outcomeDNS 非活动reason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation未知Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-19 01:58:46 UTC
RDAP registration未知
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-18 10:00:21 UTClast content: 2026-10-18 10:00:21 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-10-18 20:24:26 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-10-18 10:00:21 UTC → 2026-10-18 20:24:26 UTC · 10.40hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-10-18 15:12:23 UTC · precision medium · basis bounded
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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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 birdinhandonline.shop· checked Oct 16, 2026
64
Needs Work
Performance
FCP
2.9s
First Contentful Paint
LCP
12.61s
Largest Contentful Paint
CLS
0.022
Cumulative Layout Shift
TBT
265ms
Total Blocking Time
SI
3.66s
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://birdinhandonline.shop/
Final URL:https://birdinhandonline.shop/
Downtown Chico | Bird in Hand
Visit Bird in Hand in Downtown Chico for classic toys, family and strategy games, men's and women's casual apparel, kids' books, plush toys, holiday ornaments, seasonal decor, jigsaw puzzles, and more.
HSTS: not observedDNSSEC: not observedWAF / firewall: not observedCloaking flag: not observed
Open Graph title:Downtown Chico
Open Graph description:Visit Bird in Hand in Downtown Chico for classic toys, family and strategy games, men's and women's casual apparel, kids' books, plush toys, holiday ornaments, seasonal decor, jigsaw puzzles, and more.
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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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