Is Black Shepp Gastroservice (black-shepp-gastroservice.com) a fake shop?
dangerThis provider should be strictly avoided. The check shows clear signs of a fraudulent shop.
Do not place any orders here and do not enter any payment or contact details. Check the relevant warning lists and report the shop if you suspect fraud.
Partner der Gastronomie. Handel und Verkauf von Qualitätsweinen aus Deutschland, Österreich, Mallorca, Spanien und Italien. Feinkost und Delikatessen. Catering. Online-Handel.
The provider's own description, taken verbatim from the shop's pages – no statement about whether the goods exist or are ever delivered.
FakeshopAI automatically checked Black Shepp Gastroservice (black-shepp-gastroservice.com) on 2026-09-08 for typical fake shop characteristics. 37 check points were evaluated, covering operator details, legal notices, payment methods, technology, domain history and reputation. The individual findings are listed below.
Shop facts
Who runs this site?
Warning signals
- WHOIS According to WHOIS the domain has been registered for less than two years; there is no longer operating history.
- Fake shop lists The domain is listed on official warning lists for fraudulent shops (1 list hits) - consumer protection bodies or authorities have already recorded it as a fraud site.
- DNS configuration Neither MX nor SPF records are configured for the domain - there is no working email infrastructure, even though a shop should be reachable by email.
- Security headers The server sets only some of the common protections. Present: enforced encryption (HSTS) and protection against file type confusion (X-Content-Type-Options). Not set: a content security policy (CSP) and protection against embedding in other sites (X-Frame-Options). On its own this is not evidence of fraud.
- VAT ID (VIES) The VAT identification number is valid, but the company and address data held in the EU register differ from the details in the legal notice.
- IP neighborhood Several already confirmed fake shops are hosted on the same IP address - strong evidence that the same network runs several shops in parallel here.
In the shop's favour
- PayPal support PayPal is named as a payment method - a payment route with buyer protection is therefore available, through which money can be reclaimed if goods are not delivered.
- Domain age The domain has existed for 18 months and therefore more than a year - fake shops usually disappear from the web considerably sooner.
- External reputation feeds The external security databases queried hold no warning about this domain - neither for malware nor for phishing.
Further checks
- Imprint The shop has a legal notice with reachable contact details (email or phone) - in a dispute there is a named contact to address a complaint to.
- Server location The site's server is located in New York City, US and therefore within the EU/US area - a legal area in which claims against the operator can be enforced if necessary.
- SSL certificate The connection is encrypted; the certificate was issued by Google Trust Services and last renewed on 1 August 2026. Anyone can verify this themselves - via the padlock icon in the browser's address bar. Encryption says nothing about the operator's trustworthiness, though: a fake shop gets it free of charge too.
- Legal pages Terms and conditions, right of withdrawal and privacy policy are linked on the site - the mandatory distance selling information is therefore present.
- Payment methods The shop names PayPal and Sofort as payment options - so you do not have to pay in advance to order here.
- Redirects The address does not redirect to a third-party domain - the shop is actually operated under the address you opened.
- Social media presence The linked social media profiles are reachable - the provider can therefore also be checked outside its own website.
- Contact data plausibility The contact details given are plausible: the email address belongs to the shop domain and the phone number is correctly formatted - fake shops mostly use free webmail addresses here.
- Hoster reputation There is no conspicuous accumulation of confirmed fake shops at this domain's hosting provider - fraudsters do not favour this provider.
- Template/clone fingerprint No known fake shop has the same template fingerprint as this site - a mass-produced kit of the kind fraud networks use is therefore not detectable.
What we could not verify
These checks returned no result – for example because the site blocked our request or a registry was unreachable. This is explicitly NOT a suspicion: it only means we lack the basis for a statement here.
- Trusted Shops
- Trustpilot
- Trade register
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Trust seal check
- Reputation
- Platform origin
- Marken-/Behörden-Impersonation
- Domain disguise
- Trust-seal image check
- Trusted Shops seal match
All findings come from an automated check of the publicly reachable website as well as public registers, warning lists and security databases. How we check