by Ravenlord31
Sun Dec 08, 2019 4:07 pm
Hello everyone,
Sorry to bother you; I'm in need of your expert skills
I was searching around online for a pair of boots that I really want, but they're out of stock pretty much everywhere, and are no longer produced. I was quite happy when I found them on https://www.maharajabcn.es , and was about to make a purchase, however there were a couple of potential red flags which made me hesitant to actually put the order through.
Would you please be so kind as to give it a look?
Here's what I've found so far:
- no company info, address, or phone number
- no product reviews, no mention of this shop on Google ANYWHERE
- some knitwear products have chinese names, and there's "cn" at the end of the domain
- managed to found another "shop" that seems to be an EXACT copy in terms of design, subpages, text, products - https://www.treboldeoro.es/
- didn't get a confirmation email from them after registering an account
- their SSL is a free one, the kind that usually comes with some hosting packages; it's only registred for 3 months (Nov 2019 - Feb 2020), but I guess it could be set to renew automatically so not sure if this should seem suspicious or not
- the logos in the page footer (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) seem fake; there's more logos like that when I proceed to checkout, and those ones seem to be low-resolution, I can actually see the pixels; Western Union is present, but not Paypal;
- did a domain whois lookup, and the hosting is provided by a Chinese company - DNSPOD, the servers are in Finland
Is there any chance that it might be a legitimate (although very-poorly-set-up) webshop that sells products from China via drop-shipping ?
Thank you for taking the time to read this message!
Kind regards,
Radu
Sorry to bother you; I'm in need of your expert skills
I was searching around online for a pair of boots that I really want, but they're out of stock pretty much everywhere, and are no longer produced. I was quite happy when I found them on https://www.maharajabcn.es , and was about to make a purchase, however there were a couple of potential red flags which made me hesitant to actually put the order through.Would you please be so kind as to give it a look?
Here's what I've found so far:
- no company info, address, or phone number
- no product reviews, no mention of this shop on Google ANYWHERE
- some knitwear products have chinese names, and there's "cn" at the end of the domain
- managed to found another "shop" that seems to be an EXACT copy in terms of design, subpages, text, products - https://www.treboldeoro.es/
- didn't get a confirmation email from them after registering an account
- their SSL is a free one, the kind that usually comes with some hosting packages; it's only registred for 3 months (Nov 2019 - Feb 2020), but I guess it could be set to renew automatically so not sure if this should seem suspicious or not
- the logos in the page footer (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) seem fake; there's more logos like that when I proceed to checkout, and those ones seem to be low-resolution, I can actually see the pixels; Western Union is present, but not Paypal;
- did a domain whois lookup, and the hosting is provided by a Chinese company - DNSPOD, the servers are in Finland
Is there any chance that it might be a legitimate (although very-poorly-set-up) webshop that sells products from China via drop-shipping ?
Thank you for taking the time to read this message!
Kind regards,
Radu
