Last year I bought a particular long sleeve tee made by Jack & Jones from The Iconic. It's one of the few pieces of clothing which I would love to wear every day if I could, but it's no longer made or sold. A Google search of the product code brought up the following, almost certainly fake, website, which oddly seems to stock a range of discontinued clothing at reasonable prices. Odder still is the website name, its general appearance, Engrish and lack of contact or company details.
I love that in their "About Us" section, they have this line:
We are legit wholesales for nike shoes.
That is incredibly obviously fake.
If it is fake, why is it still up?
who would take it down?
WhoIs data:
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.bizcn.com
Registrar URL: www.bizcn.com
Updated Date: 2017-12-19T03:47:18Z
Creation Date: 2017-10-19T08:46:51Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2018-10-19T08:46:51Z
Registrar: Bizcn.com, Inc.
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +86.5922577888
Registrant Organization: he yaolong
Registrant State/Province: Henan
Registrant Country: CN
Looks legit. I wonder why they went for the .org when the .com is available.
(Google the phone number…)
Probably some kind of automatic web-crawling script that finds popular but expired domains and basically hijacks them for traffic.
"Keep Chatsworth-Murray Beautiful" seems like a legitimate local organisation:
https://www.facebook.com/Keep-Chatsworth-Murray-Beautiful-15…
expired domains
Yep, spot on: https://web.archive.org/web/20170610084547/http://keepchatsw…. Started in 2013.
I did mean to check the WayBack machine but eh.
What's the website called?
The Iconic has been around for about 7 years and is one of the biggest in Aus