My wife called me in to have a look at how good their prices were and I too was amazed. But the old cliche; "if it looks too good to be true, it is too good to be true" got me wondering.
Using my Internet detective skills I did a WHOIS look up on the domain name. A WHOIS Look up is just a search which is generated at the central domain name Registry database and is available to the general public. It shows information like when a domain name was registered, when it's due to expire and who the Registrant (Legal owner) of the domain name is.
A quick look at the WHOIS record confirmed immediately that this was indeed too good to be true. It is registered to someone in China and is yet another of those Phishing type website where they are passing themselves off as the real Ugg Boots company.
There have been a lot of these sort of websites set up in China. Nominet, the .uk central Registry closed down just over 1,200 such websites last year working in conjunction with Scotland Yard's eCrime unit. Read the news article here:
Much to my wife's relief she hadn't processed an order and we saved ourselves all the aggro that would have ensued in trying to chase our order. Now, perhaps we might have actually received the UGG Boots but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out that the boots wouldn't have been the real deal!
If you find a website like this one and you think the prices look really cheap; think twice. Do a WHOIS look up to see if the website is owned by the legitimate company and if in doubt DON'T buy from the website.
To do a WHOIS Look Up just go to the Domain Tools website and enter the domain name of the website without the "www" and click the "lookup" button. See the image below for an example:
By all means drop me an email and I''l be pleased to do some Internet detective work for you. So please take care when shopping for your Christmas pressies online this year.
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