Wrong goods and website gone

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Les79 wrote: »

There is a China-based racket currently operating who buy thousands of domain names each month and put up goods for sale.

They seem to have a habit of buying domain names of recently defunct legitimate companies even if it doesn't have any connection to their items.

Nothing to do with hacking at all. I may be wrong with this specific case, but that is generally what happens.

I've previously found one of their admin websites where they store transaction records for hundreds of people across their whole network of scam sites. Quite worrying how easy it is to access this data, but to be fair the data is minimal.

I am genuinely surprised as to how easily they dupe people though! The website design is a stock design, it usually has a slapdash look about it and occasionally the English isn't perfect. Plus, I don't get why people rely on some obscure website for purchases! What happens if your item doesn't arrive? Absolutely nothing, that's what happens! One thing I like about this racket is that they DO generally send the goods (fake or not), but surely there are red flags for people who use the site?! Surely it is better to look at the main UK-based retailers first?

This is why I'd never be a good businessman, I just can't comprehend the naivety of consumers at times!

I will just add that a former company of mine had a website, that we let go just about a year ago. At Christmas last year my Experian report flagged an issue about its name and that it was trading! A quick search found a clothing site hosted on the domain, that seem to point that the company via searches on the website name! Fortunately I got both google and bing to remove these searches and now the website is no longer available! This was just one website with a uk address. If you search today for Essex woodcraft it brings up what looks like legit information, ie companies house etc, yet it does not bring up whether the company is trading.


An improvement could be that Companies house comes top in searches and flags whetehr the company is trading in search engines.