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An extensive online fraud operation based in China has scammed over 850,000 individuals in Europe and the US by luring them with fake online shops touting designer goods. Victims were deceived into sharing their credit card details and personal data. The scam involved thousands of bogus domain names and resulted in substantial financial losses, including nearly €320,000 from Irish victims alone over a three-year period. The FBI has also issued warnings about related gift card fraud targeting retail companies.
‘We got a ring, it looked like a washer in a Cartier box’: Irish victims lose almost €320,000 over three years in global online shopping scam centred in China https://t.co/XEwTjbeoKN
Fake Online Stores Scam Over 850,000 Shoppers https://t.co/sPyp0CV77N
Irish victims have told stories of placing online orders for clothes that were never delivered and then receiving cheap fake rings in bogus Cartier boxes from an address in China as part of a scheme apparently designed to confirm their addresses. https://t.co/XEwTjbeoKN