Is degussa.sale 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.
What you should do next
The check classifies degussa.sale as dangerous. Do not order unless the warning signals listed here have been credibly resolved.
- Read the warning signals and their explanations below instead of relying on the score alone.
- Do not pay by bank transfer, advance payment or cryptocurrency; use effective buyer protection instead.
- Already paid? Contact your bank or payment provider immediately and follow the recovery guide.
- Save the order confirmation, payment receipt and current site content before anything disappears.
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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.sale) 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?
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.
- 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.
- 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).
In the shop's favour
- Trustpilot The shop embeds a Trustpilot review widget through which public customer reviews can be viewed.
- 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.
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 19 December 2025. 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.
- 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.
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
- WHOIS
- Domain age
- Trade register
- Hoster reputation
- Content depth
- URL structure clone
- Trust seal check
- Platform origin
- Marken-/Behörden-Impersonation
- Trust-seal image check
- Operator cluster
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