Verdict
starbucks.co.jp appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | Official Starbucks Japan site with ecommerce storefront, rewards/account management, store information, news and corporate pages. Primary functions are product sales, digital gift cards and member services. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 28 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
What this website presents is the official Starbucks Coffee Japan corporate and ecommerce service, offering coffee, beverages, merchandise, digital gift cards, rewards and account services alongside store information, news and corporate content. Its apparent business model is branded retail commerce supported by product sales, gift-card transactions and member services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the reviewed content did not show phishing, brand-impersonation, credential-harvesting or malicious behavior indicators. The site’s business presentation is coherent with a mainstream retail brand, and external reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious detections. The available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, while independently verifying the real-world operator remains appropriate because identity verification is not conclusive.
- The homepage identifies “Starbucks Coffee Japan” and provides coordinated menus for products, stores, rewards, accounts, online ordering and corporate information.
- Interactive testing recorded no hidden forms, external password forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, cloaking or suspicious inline scripts.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no phishing or blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The reviewed pages describe ordinary consumer retail, ecommerce, gift-card and rewards services rather than a regulated financial product. Corporate and company-information content is present, but the available evidence does not independently establish the legal operator behind the website; on-site brand presentation should therefore be treated as apparent rather than conclusive identity evidence. No broker-dataset match was identified, which is a contextual reputational signal and not a licensing determination. The domain’s long registration history, recognized TLS certificate and stable commercial content materially support an established-site assessment.
- Domain registration: 1998-04-13; age 28.36 years.
- The homepage’s product catalogue includes beverages, coffee, food, merchandise and Starbucks Cards, while service pages describe My Starbucks, rewards, mobile ordering and digital gifts.
- Hosted on AS16509 (AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- TLS certificate issued by GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018, validation level OV, subject organization Starbucks Coffee Japan,Ltd., valid to 2027-03-31.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the merchant identity, applicable purchase and return terms, gift-card conditions and payment-protection arrangements through the brand’s established offline or independently sourced channels. Account users should also confirm that any login or payment journey remains within the expected official service flow and that support details are consistent with independently obtained company information.
- The homepage exposes account, rewards, order-status and digital-gift functions that may involve credentials or payment value.
- The site provides FAQ and contact pathways, store-locator information and corporate content suitable for cross-checking merchant details.
- The retail model involves product sales and digital gift-card or top-up transactions, making purchase, refund and payment-protection terms the relevant verification points.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation or other contradictory signal was observed, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic served through Amazon edge infrastructure on AS16509 and no origin candidate identified in this analysis. This architecture reduces direct origin exposure and is a positive defensive control, but it remains a mitigating infrastructure signal rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary retail use are proportionate to the evidence; independent merchant-identity, policy and payment-protection checks should be completed before credentials or payment details are submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of starbucks.co.jp.
- The request stayed on starbucks.co.jp. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by d-53.info, across 3 name servers. Noted
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 13.33.235.92 |
| Name servers | ns008-iif9elrm4tnnrn93.i.d-53.info, ns008-iif9elrm4tnnrn93.i.d-53.jp, ns008-iif9elrm4tnnrn93.i.d-53.net |
| SSL issuer | GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-03-31 |
| Domain age | 28.36 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about starbucks.co.jp at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.