This dodgy website?...
 

[Closed] This dodgy website? Why yes...

 Leku
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http://www.northwalesaquaristssociety.co.uk

My wife was looking to buy some new football boots for our son. She found some on-line at a good price and bought with the switch card.

I have now pointed out the web address and have suggested she gets her card cancelled asap.

Firstly - I am right?

Secondly - anything else worth doing?


 
Posted : 06/09/2018 6:19 pm
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Probability is that you're right.

Site looks pretty iffy without digging too deeply and there's no address or contact details..thats always a bad sign.

Speak to the card company and see if you can cancel the payment or do a charge back.

Cancel the card of course!


 
Posted : 06/09/2018 6:39 pm
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The shipping and returns page is also very badly worded, I've seen worse on some scam sites but still.


 
Posted : 06/09/2018 6:43 pm
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Domain was registered for two years, a year ago.

Registration Date:2017-06-05
Expiration Date:2019-06-05

That's a good sign in that it wasn't "last week" and scam domains tend to only be registered for a year.

However, the site looks cheap, obviously bears no resemblance to the URL, and crucially has no contact or location details beyond a "contact us" web form.

There's no secure connection on the site - the shopping basket is communicating in plaintext - and forcing it into https spits out an invalid server certificate for "hghopkinsandsons.co.uk."ย  For added lols, the web server is located in Panama.

If I were a guessing man, I'd say that's a stolen / hacked domain.

First thing I'd be doing is ringing the bank.ย  Then I'd be changing passwords anywhere else where you've reused the same credentials submitted to the site.


 
Posted : 06/09/2018 6:45 pm