Is shinyflakes.de 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.
FakeshopAI automatically checked Shinyflakes (shinyflakes.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?
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 – embedded as an image, but not clickable
Review seal – a plain logo is common here and not a warning sign. - eKomi – embedded as an image, but not clickable
Review seal – a plain logo is common here and not a warning sign.
We check the embedding, not the content of the certificate: a linked seal may be expired or issued for a different domain.
Warning signals
- 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.
- Security headers The server sets only some of the common protections. Present: a content security policy (CSP). Not set: enforced encryption (HSTS), protection against embedding in other sites (X-Frame-Options) and protection against file type confusion (X-Content-Type-Options). 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.
- Payment methods Only a single common payment method is recognisable; secured alternatives are missing.
- 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.
- Reputation Web research found indications of negative experiences that could not be conclusively confirmed (rating 1.9 out of 5 from 12 reviews).
- Trust-seal image check A well-known trust seal is merely pasted in as an image and does not lead to the official provider - a genuine seal is always linked.
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.
- 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 San Francisco, 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 Let's Encrypt and last renewed on 12 July 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.
- 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 shows one linguistic irregularity (such as placeholder text, missing umlauts or unnatural 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.
- Operator cluster The site shares no operator-specific identifiers with other domains we have checked - there is therefore no indication of a network of similar shops.
- Financial fraud The site shows no financial fraud characteristics or belongs to a regulated financial institution - the typical patterns of investment fraud are absent.
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
- WHOIS
- Domain age
- VAT ID (VIES)
- Trade register
- IP neighborhood
- Hoster reputation
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Trust seal check
- Platform origin
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