Is sonoransurplus.com 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.
Sonoran Surplus ensure that customer get value by delivering quality lab equipment and testing equipment.
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 Sonoransurplus (sonoransurplus.com) on 2026-09-08 for typical fake shop characteristics. 36 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
- Imprint A legal notice is linked, but it provides no usable contact details or was itself unreachable.
- 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.
- Legal pages Several mandatory legal texts are missing from the site: the terms and conditions, the right of withdrawal and the privacy policy.
- 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.
- Hoster reputation This domain's hosting provider hosts a disproportionate number of confirmed fake shops.
- Reputation Web research found indications of negative experiences that could not be conclusively confirmed.
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.
- 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 7 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
- Server location The site's server is located in Singapore, SG and therefore outside the EU and the USA - enforcing your rights there is considerably harder in a dispute.
- SSL certificate The connection is encrypted; the certificate was issued by Let's Encrypt and last renewed on 8 September 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.
- 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.
- IP neighborhood No known fake shops are recorded in the domain's IP neighbourhood - no fraud network known to us runs on the same server.
- 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.
- 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
- VAT ID (VIES)
- Trade register
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Text quality
- Trust seal check
- Platform origin
- Marken-/Behörden-Impersonation
- 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