Is Elektro Engel (elektro-engel.de) a fake shop?
dangerThis provider should be strictly avoided. The check shows clear signs of a fraudulent shop. Note: Some of the checks returned no data – the assessment is based on limited data.
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.
Elektro Engel Ihr Elektriker im ganz Nordrhein-Westfalen mit 24 Stunden Notfallservice bei einem Elektronotfall oder einem Stromausfall.
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 Elektro Engel (elektro-engel.de) 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
- PayPal support PayPal is not mentioned as a payment method on the pages checked; a payment route with buyer protection is therefore not recognisable.
- Security headers The server sets hardly any of the common security headers - the site is technically carelessly configured; on its own this is not evidence of fraud.
- Legal pages Several mandatory legal texts are missing from the site: the terms and conditions and the right of withdrawal.
- Social media presence No social media profiles are linked, or the linked profiles are unreachable - there is therefore no independently verifiable trace of the provider online.
In the shop's favour
- WHOIS According to WHOIS the domain has been registered for several years, or its registration data has been unchanged for years - an indication of a permanently operated presence.
- Domain age The domain has existed for around 25 years and therefore has a long operating history - fake shops usually disappear again after a few months.
- 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.
- 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 Nuremberg, 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 DigiCert Inc and last renewed on 15 June 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.
- Fake shop lists The domain does not appear on any of the fake shop warning lists checked - warning lists lag behind newly created shops, however, so this is no clean bill of health.
- Payment methods The shop names Sofort 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Text quality The page text is linguistically unremarkable - no leftover placeholder text, no missing umlauts, no machine-like flow.
- Country coherence Country of the responsible entity, VAT ID and legal details are consistent and all point to Germany - the statements about the company's registered office do not contradict each other.
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
- VAT ID (VIES)
- Trade register
- IP neighborhood
- Hoster reputation
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Trust seal check
- Reputation
- Platform origin
- Marken-/Behörden-Impersonation
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