SCAM website help please

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Ordered some clothing from a website that had an address ending uk.com and the website looked very good.
Hindsight I should have looked into it closer. The money went out to buygoodssing.com
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based in Singapore.
Yes I know now its obvious and I'm a complete c0k for getting roped in.

What they do is use designer names in front of uk.com like drscholluk.com to make it look legit. Oddly instead of getting the goods they send out stupid gifts like a wallet or cheap hat.

Anyway my question is... is there any way of reporting this? They're fleecing thousands of other gullible halfwits and keep doing it. Is there any international means of reporting them? Obviously I'll never get my money back but I'd like to try and chase it up.
 
From doing a check on Scam Adviser, the website is about 2 months old and the owner has decided to hide their identity on WHOIS so all red flags. The website does not have many visitors but has lots of reviews so probably many of them are fake, another red flag.

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Best thing to do first is notify your bank ASAP.

You can report any type of fraud via Action Fraud who are the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime where you should report fraud if you have been scammed, defrauded or experienced cyber crime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

How did you pay for the goods and what was the total cost? If you payed by credit card and the total cost was more than £100 then you could ask your bank to make a Section 75 claim as the credit card company has equal responsibility (or ‘liability’) with the seller if there’s a problem with the things you’ve bought or the company you’ve bought them from fails. If you used PayPal to make credit card purchases you won’t have Section 75 protection.

If you paid by debit card then you could ask your bank to use chargeback.

Chargeback isn’t legal protection like Section 75. It’s an agreement Visa, Mastercard and American Express have signed up to. The scheme enables you to claim a refund from your card provider if a purchase doesn’t arrive or is faulty. If you make a chargeback claim, your card company tries to claim your money back from the company you’ve paid, by reversing the transaction.

There’s usually no minimum spend in order to be covered by chargeback, but time limits apply for making a claim – 120 days from making the purchase, depending on the type of card. If the purchase is for something in the future, for example, tickets to an event, then the 120-day limit starts from the day the event would have happened.

Chargeback claims can take some time to process because the card company has to get the money refunded before it can pass it onto you.
 
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Hopefully you paid by CC?
If so they will reimburse you
Good luck - there for the grace of god go we……
 
My dad ordered a air frier in November from a company based in Singapore…
Great ‘deal’ of 25% of full price..🤔
He then asked me about a month later if I thought he’d been scammed…
They started sending delivery notes and package tracker information stating it had been sent and couldn’t offer refunds..
Tracker info stated it had been delivered to a sorting office in London…
Told them to contact bank who have already refunded them but since contacted them to say it wasn’t a scam..
Dads now worried bank will try to reclaim money but I’ve told him to go worry as it’s in their hands now to get money of the vendor..
It’s getting so difficult to work out which online retailer is real nowadays….

May be time to move back to physical shops..
 
Fat_Dragon said:
From doing a check on Scam Adviser, the website is about 2 months old and the owner has decided to hide their identity on WHOIS so all red flags. The website does not have many visitors but has lots of reviews so probably many of them are fake, another red flag.

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Best thing to do first is notify your bank ASAP.

You can report any type of fraud via Action Fraud who are the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime where you should report fraud if you have been scammed, defrauded or experienced cyber crime in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

How did you pay for the goods and what was the total cost? If you payed by credit card and the total cost was more than £100 then you could ask your bank to make a Section 75 claim as the credit card company has equal responsibility (or ‘liability’) with the seller if there’s a problem with the things you’ve bought or the company you’ve bought them from fails. If you used PayPal to make credit card purchases you won’t have Section 75 protection.

If you paid by debit card then you could ask your bank to use chargeback.

Chargeback isn’t legal protection like Section 75. It’s an agreement Visa, Mastercard and American Express have signed up to. The scheme enables you to claim a refund from your card provider if a purchase doesn’t arrive or is faulty. If you make a chargeback claim, your card company tries to claim your money back from the company you’ve paid, by reversing the transaction.

There’s usually no minimum spend in order to be covered by chargeback, but time limits apply for making a claim – 120 days from making the purchase, depending on the type of card. If the purchase is for something in the future, for example, tickets to an event, then the 120-day limit starts from the day the event would have happened.

Chargeback claims can take some time to process because the card company has to get the money refunded before it can pass it onto you.
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Solid advice FatDragon, but might be worth emphasising that Paypal does not give you the protection you enjoy from a credit card. I only use Paypal for amounts under £100. Last year I reclaimed over £2,500 from an events company for a festival, including glamping, that had gone into liquidation due to Covid. The credit card company paid within days of receiving the required paperwork.
 
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Looked into these type of sites before. Apparently, the reason they send you something pretty much worthless (such as a cheap wallet), is so that when you contact your payment provider, the vendor has proof that they delivered something to your address. You basically cannot prove what item you did / didn't receive and the payment providers are then reluctant to get involved.

Hope you get it sorted though.
 
TheBlueButterfly said:
Looked into these type of sites before. Apparently, the reason they send you something pretty much worthless (such as a cheap wallet), is so that when you contact your payment provider, the vendor has proof that they delivered something to your address. You basically cannot prove what item you did / didn't receive and the payment providers are then reluctant to get involved.

Hope you get it sorted though.
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Makes sense that. Thanks very much.
 
Def tell your bank. Similar thing happened to me a few years ago and they paid me back. Didn’t even use a credit card.
 
Norfolkred1 said:
Look at this whopper I received today. Not even in my name and unsubscribe in Texas. Some people could be drawn in.

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Lloyds Direct email domains end in @lloydsdirect.co.uk but this one ends in a Spanish domain @favaxixwrzmemailingbancosantander-mail.es

Also as you state, why would you have a Texas address next to unsubscribe. Not the smartest of scammers.
 
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