Quote:Čitalac FakeNews Tragača požalio nam se kako je sa jednog sajta za prodaju obuće naručio cipele brenda Camper, da bi, kada je porudžbina stigla, doživeo neprijatno iznenađenje. „Nisu doneli stvari, ali su doneli naočare kao u 3D bioskopu, koje koštaju najviše 100 dinara“, objašnjava nam čitalac. Iako je već pri prijemu pošiljke shvatio da je u pitanju prevara, naš čitalac doveden je pred svršen čin: „Poštar je zahtevao potpis ne dozvoljavajući da se paket otvori kao i obično, takva su pravila u Pošti“.
Drugi čitalac Tragača bio je nešto obazriviji. „Ne sajtu koji vam šaljem sam našao dosta povoljne cene jakni poznatog brenda Helly Hansen, pa me zanima po vašem mišljenju da li je to neka prevara“, upitao nas je čitalac. Proverili smo oba sajta i ustanovili da se najverovatnije radi o prevarama.

Quote:Exclusive: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests

Quote:Eine einzelne Bande betreibt aus China Zehntausende gefälschte Onlineshops. Einblick in ein Millionengeschäft
(A single gang runs tens of thousands of fake online shops from China. Insight into a million-dollar business)

Quote:Un gigantesque réseau de faux sites de vente de vêtements, administré de Chine, a escroqué plus de 170 000 personnes rien qu’en France ces quatre dernières années. Des documents internes révèlent son fonctionnement.
(A gigantic network of fake clothing sales sites, administered from China, has defrauded more than 170,000 people in France alone over the past four years. Internal documents reveal how it works.)

Quote:Skupina raziskovalnih novinarjev iz medijskih hiš Guardian, Die Zeit and Le Monde je po analizi številnih podatkov razkrila mrežo kar 76.000 lažnih spletnih trgovin. Kupce so zavajale z izjemno nizkimi cenami luksuznih blagovnih znamk, kot so Dior, Nike, Lacoste, Hugo Boss, Versace, Prada ipd.

Quote:We investigated a sprawling criminal e-commerce network that operates fake webshops. The fake shops processed over a million orders with an aggregate order volume of USD 50 million over the past three years.
A criminal group, which we name BogusBazaar, operates an extensive network of 75,000+ domains hosting fraudulent webshops. As of April 2024, approximately 22,500 domains were active. The network has processed more than one million orders since 2021, with an estimated aggregate order volume exceeding USD 50 million.

Quote:Fraud Method: Fake shops harvest credit cards and steal funds
BogusBazaar lures victims onto fake webshops, mainly offering shoes and apparel by well-known brands at low prices. BogusBazaar pursues two crime methods in parallel:

1. Credit card harvesting. Fake payment pages collect victims’ contact and credit card details
   
2. Fake selling. Fake shops initiate payments for expensive merchandise. In most cases, the victims do not receive any merchandise. Occasionally, they receive cheap counterfeits. Payments are facilitated through PayPal, Stripe, and credit card processors
   

Both methods are sometimes used against the same victim in sequence: First, credit card data is harvested through a spoofed payment interface. The victim is then shown an error message and forwarded to a functioning payment gateway, which initiates a payment.

Quote:Defendants are individuals and business entities of unknown makeup who own
and/or operate one or more of the e-commerce stores under at least the Seller Aliases identified on
Schedule A and/or other seller aliases not yet known to Plaintiffs. On information and belief,
Defendants reside and/or operate in the People’s Republic of China or other foreign jurisdictions
with lax trademark enforcement systems, or redistribute products from the same or similar sources
in those locations.