Is degussa.website 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.
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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 Degussa (degussa.website) on 2026-07-25 for typical fake shop characteristics. 35 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?
Trust seals on this page
A genuine trust seal is clickable and leads to the provider's certificate – a test the seal providers name themselves. We run it automatically on every check.
- Trustpilot – leads to the provider
We check the embedding, not the content of the certificate: a linked seal may be expired or issued for a different domain.
Warning signals
- PayPal support PayPal is not mentioned as a payment method on the pages checked; a payment route with buyer protection is therefore not recognisable.
- 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.
- 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.
- Template/clone fingerprint The site has the same kit fingerprint as 2 confirmed fake shops - it comes from the same series. Sites like these are not built one by one, they are rolled out in bulk.
- External reputation feeds External security databases list the domain as malicious (malware or phishing).
- Reputation Web research found indications of negative experiences that could not be conclusively confirmed (rating 4.5 out of 5 from 4245 reviews).
Same operator traces
These domains share an operator-specific marker with the checked site. Fake shops are rarely run on their own.
In the shop's favour
- Trustpilot The shop embeds a Trustpilot review widget through which public customer reviews can be viewed.
- Domain age The domain has existed for 15 months and therefore more than a year - fake shops usually disappear from the web considerably sooner.
- DNS configuration The domain has a complete email configuration with MX and SPF records - the shop can therefore actually send and receive email under its own address.
- VAT ID (VIES) The VAT identification number given in the legal notice is valid according to the EU VIES system and matches the company details.
- Trust seal check The embedded trust seal is officially linked or confirmed by the provider - it can therefore be traced back to the issuing body.
Further checks
- Imprint The legal notice names Degussa Goldhandel GmbH as the operator with reachable contact details - in a dispute there is someone to turn to.
- Server location The site's server is located in Harrislee, DE 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 Encryption Everywhere G3 TLS ECC P384 SHA384 2023 CA1 and last renewed on 7 January 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.
- Security headers The server sets the common security headers - the site is technically cleanly configured. On its own this says nothing about the provider's trustworthiness.
- 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 credit card and purchase on invoice 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.
- Text quality The page text is linguistically unremarkable - no leftover placeholder text, no missing umlauts, no machine-like flow.
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
- Trade register
- Hoster reputation
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Platform origin
- Marken-/Behörden-Impersonation
- Trust-seal image check
- Operator cluster
- 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