Stolen Images and Videos

One of the most obvious signs of a scam ad or site is the use of stolen material (images or videos). No serious, trustworthy, business steals material* to use in their store and ads. The stolen materials often appears in the ads, the comments on…

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Low Prices

What’s wrong with a low price? In many cases: Nothing (and you might get a great deal), but in some cases it’s a sign that you should think both twice and thrice before clicking on buy. If something seems too good to be true, it…

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Inconsistent information

It’s common that these sites has information that differs from one place on the site to another. The most common examples of this is the name of the site/store, usually a different (sometimes just slightly different, like just one letter missing) name is used by…

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Missing or unrelated information

It should always be a big warning sign if a business site/store lacks important information (and even more so if it’s “wrong”, see bellow), such as: No contact/support information (e-mail, phone, etc) No business information, such as company name, address, a “Company ID”, etc No…

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Random name

Many scam sites tend to have names that seem randomly generated and doesn’t make much sense, like: Impress-happy Rosyas Analystnew / Antalystnew-life Offernew-life Masonnew Bigbluenew Equinox-nature Peacelovenew-life Surface-happy Views-nature Comnew-life Hihihub Icpcpiv Xxkshop Whlshop Oliywho Heyqueene-btrc The most likely reason to why the names are…

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