Where to report a scam website

[RupertGB]

I am not sure where to post this, and so turn to this site, in the hope that there might be some sensible suggestions.

i was shopping yesterday for Christmas, searched on google, and found a jacket that was branded, and was a great price.

There were a few indications that it was clearance stock, so I put in my details, and got as far as the check out... at which point I felt something was not quite right.

I checked it out, and the payment provider is china, and Norton say they suspect it is connected with the sale of counterfeit goods.
Same PP different website:


I checked out the website, and it was until a month ago a nightclub site. Then found more domains, selling the same stuff, and linked to by a network of dropped domains.

Hence they rank ready for the Christmas season.

i might or might not have got a jacket delivered. I might or might not have had a branded one, or a fake from china (15 days delivery)

There is no phone number.

I would rather this sort of site does not rank. Having been penalised by Google for "Low quality links" pointing at my site" I find it offensive they rank this sort of thing, that only pushes people to shop at the sites they recognise on the high street.

But Who do I report it to? Who would be interested?

i started filling out a police fraud report, but frankly it was asking the wrong questions.

Ideas?

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Report to Google

 

[Cherrie Hub]

hi, I have no idea how to go around it - alert police about what?... They do not commit crime by having cheap links pointing to their website. They will commit crime, if they take your money and will not supply the goods, after sufficient amount of time you could alert police of their actions. If you really want to go ahead with it, why not report this site to Google?

 

[deniser]

At least the general public is becoming more aware of these kinds of site so eventually people should with any luck stop buying from them.

We get phone calls every day from prospective purchasers checking us out before placing an order because of the fake Chinese sites.

 

[RupertGB]

Deniser, yes, but they will not buy from anyone they do not recognise. That includes every small business out there.
Cherrie, its not the links, its the product. They are claiming to be branded, but are certainly fake.

Chris where would you report it? I can find dmca stuff, and violence etc laws, but the brand need to do that really.

 

[ecoleman]

No a lot you can do unfortunately other than to report it to Google in the hopes they may investigate and remove them from SERPS.
The police can't and won't do anything. The site is based in China.
Heck the police aren't even interested in ecommerce fraud in the UK. Action Fraud is also just another expensive government organisation that puts a few people in high paying jobs but do absolutely nothing.

 

[altonroot]

May be you should file a police report because it is the case of consumer fraud. Reporting Google is fine Google will remove it but who knows people land there from somewhere else so report to police is necessary.

 

[ecoleman]

May be you should file a police report because it is the case of consumer fraud. Reporting Google is fine Google will remove it but who knows people land there from somewhere else so report to police is necessary.

The police can't do anything if the scammers are in China.

 

[altonroot]

The police can't do anything if the scammers are in China.

They can do block the whole server in country so no website will be accessible through out the country.

 

[ecoleman]

They can do block the whole server in country so no website will be accessible through out the country.

Good luck with that.

 

[RupertGB]

I have reported it to North Face. Reporting to Google seems difficult.

May be you should file a police report because it is the case of consumer fraud. Reporting Google is fine Google will remove it but who knows people land there from somewhere else so report to police is necessary.

no crime commited. as stated above. Not interested. As ecolman says.

 

[altonroot]

Good luck with that.

Sorry! I have missed your comment above. If police is not interested than may be it is very difficult to tackle such fraud.

 

[altonroot]

As far Google's side concern you can approach the Google webmaster forum or may be write a detail post and turn to Twitter or Google+ to send it Google representative. John Muller is best person. He is on twitter too.

 

[RupertGB]

well, a simple "spam report" to Google. lets see if they are still there after the w/e.