SCAMS & How to avoiding them

[mikkiwikki]

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[winnieriffic]

Am I missing something? Where's the post?

 

[tinatark]

lol

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

It's a double post I believe... here is the one down lower on this page..

I thought I would start a thread in the hopes of preventing OTHERS from being SCAMMED a very big budgetary OOPS

Whatever you do DONT try to buy UGG boots from this site.
http://www.uggboots-shoppe.com

They advertise 99 dollar boots and dont sell anything.

I just was scammed and had to cancel my credit card based on reports from other users via my google search. I should have searched BEFORE putting in my CC number. The site looks identical to the real site...

WHICH I now know is
http://www.uggaustralia.com

Lesson learned...before you buy ANYTHING online...google the domain URL for stories of foul play a quick search would have showed me the error of my ways...This is the FIRST time I was scammed...Im quite cynical...typically...lol

 

[Cheshire Figment]

Whenever I wonder about any web site, especially a store, I will go to networksolutions.com and do a "whois" search. They are the primary registrar for the US.

In the case that the OP referred to, It returned the following information:

Domain Name: UGGBOOTS-SHOPPE.COM
Registrar: HICHINA ZHICHENG TECHNOLOGY LTD.
Whois Server: grs-whois.hichina.com
Referral URL: http://www.net.cn
Name Server: DNS19.HICHINA.COM
Name Server: DNS20.HICHINA.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 21-jul-2011
Creation Date: 30-oct-2010
Expiration Date: 30-oct-2011

Which would have said the company is in China and set off all sorts of alarms.