Extreme caution cheaprshopping.com

I was looking for a mobile phone, and http://cheaprshopping.com has what it seems the best deal on that phone. However browsing around its webpage, it seems they do not have any contact details, telephone and address and also lack any sort of UK shop number that is used by legitimate online shops. I don't want to accuse them falsely but this website does seem rather dangerous to do business with. I would suggest to stay away, unless there is some proof for the opposite (that they are operating legitimately) Also a simple whois request on the website shows that it is about one month old. http://whois.domaintools.com/cheaprshopping.com http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?domain=CHEAPRSHOPPING.COM Not very reassuring in my experience...

plasma8000series.com is most probably a scam

As usually I was searching online for something to buy and hit on this website, http://plasma8000series.com/ which similar to other scam websites does not provide any sort of contact information, plus the website itself looks very bogus and dodgy and what is more, if you create an account, you never recieve the so called activation link.

Also strangely enough when you type in plasma8000series.com/contact.htm you get redirected to the following webpage

http://www.electronichaven.biz/products/index.php

and when you type on the address bar www.electronichaven.biz you get redirected to AMazon!!!

Verdict: Stay AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE

shoppingzn.tk most probably scam shoping site

Well, it has been sometime but I think I just discovered a new scam e-shop.

I was looking for a computer gadget today through google shoping function and I found the cheapest one in this page:
http://shoppingzn.tk
Bells and whistles started ringing right from the start

bad sign 1: It had ZERO reviews on google.
bad sign 2: After a whois look up the page seems to be a FREE DOMAIN for which the owner cannot be disclosed, although they claim their address to be in:
Room 319
City: ShenZhen
Country: China
Postal code:518067

And the registar is in Amsterdam

Organisation:
BV Dot TK
Dot TK administrator
P.O. Box 11774
1001 GT Amsterdam
Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 5315725
Fax: +31 20 5315721
E-mail: abuse: abus @dot.tk, copyright infringement: abus @dot.tk

Your selected domain name is a Free Domain. That means that,
according to the terms and conditions of Free Domain domain names
the registrant is BV Dot TK in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Due to restrictions in Dot TK's Privacy Statement personal information
about the user of the domain name cannot be released.

more bad signs: their online help made of 3 people (shanteel richard and taphne) is always busy. (So many customers need their help??!!!) not to mention that these 3 people work 24/7...

they offer to show you their telephone number after you placed an order!!!!

some of the icons they use, eg paypal, fedex, ups etc are inactive and some are active!!!

on the log in to checkout page, they ask you to create a password!!! very poor design if you ask me... (thank god)

When I typed the http://shoppingzn.tk/ i got a very bizzare home page thanking me for the payment and the confirmation of the credit card company which I did not make ?!?!

their blog seems to be a total BS...

ONLINE SHOPPING SCAMS / FRAUDS WEBSITES

At 29th of August besthdelectronics.com was registered on godaddy.com and went online as a shopping website.
In reality it was nothing more than a scam/fraud website with only one purpose, steal your credit card and identity information and most probably resell them for peanuts.
This website was not and is not alone or the only one. Another one the kgadgets.co.uk also registered the same date was very similar to the previous in terms of design and had the exact same purpose. This also went offline a few days after I discovered it.

There are a few things in common on scam / fraudulent shopping online web-pages.

1. T have too good to be true prices. That is the bait. Visitors think they are mis-prices or just excellent deals and go for it regardless.
2. They have no online reputation. Zero or minimal Google results. A shopping site that just started has of course zero reputation but usually somehow throughother means, even if just online.
3. So far they had no contact details at all. No telephone number, no vat registration, no post address, no owners name, no email, not even P.O. box.
4. They had an online contact form, you could fill and ask questions but they NEVER replied.
5. Because usually they copy other websites, they have inconsistencies. For example they may state they are 10 years in business, but then you look their webpage copyright and it is for different number of years.
6. These particular ones after you made a purchase, they rushed to ask for credit card details BEFORE providing postage information. I mean ok, some provide free postage, but they tell you they do so.
7. Once you made a transaction through their system, your order would be canceled! Of course since they do not sell anything, they don't want to raise suspicion on themselves.

I am pretty sure they have read this blog and have seen my remarks that reveal their fraudulent nature. And this probably means that next time, they will probably make sure to cover most if not all the points above, for example by using some kind of fake telephone number, or some sort of fake VAT registration number, or some fake address, or some fake or real email.

The bottom line is this: BE CAREFUL OF ONLINE SHOPPING SCAMS / FRAUDS. There are a lot out there. If by any chance you had shared your details with some suspicious website, I would suggest to cancel your card at once!

and God bless as my Nigerian "friends" say.

www.direct-techs.co.uk review

As a commenter noted on a previous post

www.direct-techs.co.uk
is most probably a scam! Extreme caution is advised.

No contact information, no email or address or other important info!
registered on 16/Aug/2010 look here
copyright of website since 2008 (?!??!?!)
Not many google results with this webpage either!
They got an empty page in delivery information and returns!!!