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    Something Interesting Tonight

    One of the girls in our office tonight was scanning one of our small business accounts domain names. This business is all over the front page of Google with it's search strings. She found a domain almost identical to their domain. When she checked the domain it lead straight to a website that says Ralph Lauren and nothing more.

    In the address bar it had the like domain of our business client. It was copyrighted and powered by the same domain.

    She moused over their social media icons and they all led to the home page of the site. She then checked the links to the add to cart buttons and the pay now button that let to nothing that she would attempt to click on.

    The contact page has only an email contact form on it. In doing a whois it gave a name as the technical contact with a yeah.net that leads straight to China and have dealt with many a scam email from yeah.net. When she checked the email address here again it led straight to China.

    She checked to see who hosted the site and has nothing but dedicated servers on it.

    No doubt this is a scam site and she's contacting Ralph Lauren and the host so they can work it all out.

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    I've seen this before and one of the most bizarre cases would be: One client we had was with us for about 2 years, ran into some financial trouble among other things, and their business closed. Their domain expired about 2 months later, and come 60 days, the site is back up on the same nameservers at the same cloud host we had them on, and looking like its trying to be the same thing, on the same servers (different IPs) but even the old site was cloned! Now what's the odd thing? the store was 100% brick and mortar, no online shopping etc. The website was just advertising and products list.

    I've traced down at least 50 other domains on the same IP address at the cloud service, and they all look to be expired domains with their sites brought back to life randomly with just a single link or two to a chinese site on them embedded within the multiple pages of content.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bruc View Post

    she's contacting Ralph Lauren and the host so they can work it all out.
    Yes, she should. Good hunting :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by (Stephen) View Post
    I've seen this before and one of the most bizarre cases would be: One client we had was with us for about 2 years, ran into some financial trouble among other things, and their business closed. Their domain expired about 2 months later, and come 60 days, the site is back up on the same nameservers at the same cloud host we had them on, and looking like its trying to be the same thing, on the same servers (different IPs) but even the old site was cloned! Now what's the odd thing? the store was 100% brick and mortar, no online shopping etc. The website was just advertising and products list.

    I've traced down at least 50 other domains on the same IP address at the cloud service, and they all look to be expired domains with their sites brought back to life randomly with just a single link or two to a chinese site on them embedded within the multiple pages of content.
    Interesting. I've sent this to her office so she can read it. Thanks

    Quote Originally Posted by net View Post
    Yes, she should. Good hunting :-)
    She talked to the host and they more or less acted like they didn't give a hoot but said they would look into it.

    She talked to Ralph Lauren on the phone and they jumped all over it and said they would be back in touch with her.

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