Ask HN: Where to Report Scam Webshops?

17 points

2 years ago

Might have found a bunch of suspiciously similar-looking and very possibly fake webshops in a scam network, or at least I don't think this many unrelated brands would end up using the same outlet provider. Couldn't find any contact info, the shipping info and privacy policies are bullshit, the prices are suspiciously low, the wording is strange on every site and no Hungarian would start every word in uppercase (unless they are braindead). Some sites are just redirects to others, and quite a lot of them has intentional typo. For example, www.salonomnhuoutlet.com and www.salomohungary.com

Reported this at https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/ but it seems like the sites are not yet flagged as https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search shows the sites as safe. Is there any way to get these sites off the net?

The list: https://bgp.tools/prefix/196.245.161.0/24#dns

Don't know what that cprapid.com is, but it's on the Badware Risks filter list.

Btw, at least for me, the top 3 results for "salomon xa pro 3d" are these scammy-looking sites.

I've found an article about this phenomenon too: https://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/521539-surge-in-online-shopping-scams-in-south-africa.html

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