Is horizons28.com a fake shop?
dangerThis website should be strictly avoided. The check shows clear signs of a fraudulent website. Note: Some of the checks returned no data – the assessment is based on limited data.
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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 horizons28.com on 2026-09-08 for typical fake shop characteristics. 34 check points were evaluated, covering operator details, legal notices, payment methods, technology, domain history and reputation. The individual findings are listed below.
Shop facts
Warning signals
- Imprint No legal notice with a proper postal address can be found on this site - for an offer aimed at German-speaking customers this disclosure is required by law.
- WHOIS According to WHOIS the domain has been registered for less than two years; there is no longer operating history.
- 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.
- Financial fraud The site presents itself as a bank or investment platform without verifiable financial supervision or deposit protection - a classic pattern of investment fraud.
In the shop's favour
- Server location The site's server is located in San Francisco, US and therefore within the EU/US area - a legal area in which claims against the operator can be enforced if necessary.
- Domain age The domain has existed for 17 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.
- Security headers The server sets most of the common protections. Present: enforced encryption (HSTS), protection against embedding in other sites (X-Frame-Options) and protection against file type confusion (X-Content-Type-Options). Not set: a content security policy (CSP). On its own this says nothing about the provider's trustworthiness.
- Legal pages The site links the privacy policy. Terms and conditions and a right of withdrawal are only required when selling to consumers and were not checked here.
- 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.
Further checks
- Redirects The address does not redirect to a third-party domain - the shop is actually operated under the address you opened.
- 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.
- Country coherence Country of the responsible entity, VAT ID and legal details are consistent - the statements about the company's registered office do not contradict each other.
- Scam pattern No known scam pattern was detected - the site does not match any of the fraud patterns documented by us.
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.
- Trustpilot
- SSL certificate
- Fake shop lists
- VAT ID (VIES)
- Trade register
- IP neighborhood
- Hoster reputation
- External reputation feeds
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Text quality
- Trust seal check
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