How to identify fraudulent sites

How to identify fraudulent sites

I'm yosi, the administrator of Chillout with Beats.

I was looking for sale items on my smartphone for a while, but when I looked closely, I thought I would buy it at a fairly attractive price, and it was a fraudulent site.

I haven't seen any fraudulent websites in DTM, so I was careful.

It looks like a normal shopping site, so don't be fooled.

I will post a link for the time being, but this site is a fraudulent site.

Never buy it.

So I investigated how to identify fraudulent sites.

How to identify fraudulent sites

There was an easy-to-understand explanation on the Saitama Prefectural Police website.

If you are injured, contact the police immediately.

Check the domain

First is the part called the domain.

On this site, ".com" of chilloutwithbeats.com is the domain.

If this domain is different, the first half can exist with the same name.

The Saitama Prefectural Police website has the following description.

I don't often see the end of the domain (".top", ".xyz", ".bid", etc.)

The reason why such a domain name is suspicious is that it costs less to use.

See the image below.

The price is the cost of using a domain name for one year.

The price is obviously different.

Sites like ".xyz", ".site", and ".work" should be considered suspicious at first.

Check store information

Most shopping sites have store information, so be sure to check it.

Summarizing fraudulent sitesサイトhad.

According to this site, there are many fraudulent websites that have nothing to do with it, but there are many cases where the name of an existing company is used without permission.

* Except for the WEB address and e-mail, the fake site is set to random (existing other companies or appropriate).There are no fake sites at real addresses or companies.The company name, address, and person in charge are given without permission.

I quoted it.

If you search for a URL or email address on this site and get caught, it is a fraudulent site.

In this case, the store information was as follows.

I looked it up, but it was the real estate company that was displayed at the top of Google.

It's not absolute, but it doesn't matter.

Since the address was Hokkaido as a trial, I also added the keyword of Hokkaido and searched.

The advertising agency is displayed at the top.

I looked at other search results, but it doesn't seem to matter.

Check the payment method

Especially suspicious is the case of only credit card or bank transfer.

If it supports Paypal, the credit rating will increase a little.

Paypal says "Buyer protection systemThere is a system called ", so if you do not receive the item, you can apply for a refund. (However, it does not always come back and there are conditions)

Accounts that receive refund requests from multiple people will be frozen, so it also means that you can pay with Paypal = there is some trust.

Check your email address

I think it's almost a fraudulent site so far, but I'll show you other ways.

Search for URLs and email addresses.

This time, the contact information was "topics@teomarina.com", so I searched for this keyword.

The search results are as follows, and fake site information was caught.

In this case, it was very rough and it turned out that it was a fraudulent site.

However, it seems that the technique has become more sophisticated these days, so basically it is best to purchase from a reliable site.

Summary of how to identify fraudulent sites

Summarize.

Don't jump because it's cheap.