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Is it a scam website? - Soroush Kefayati - 05-27-2014 04:20 PM
Visit this site. what do you think?
Is it a scam website? Have you heard anything about "Sigma Expo" (it's something like "Power balance products")
Read "About us" on its website. it shows a store on:
283 W San Marcos Blvrd, San Marcos, Ca 9208
But I think it's not true & There is no store like that there...
http://www.sigmaexpo.com
(I forgot to write the website)
- Jake - 05-27-2014 04:21 PM
Some would say all dealers of those magic healing products are scams.
Whether this one delivers anything is questionable, I confirmed the address they give is a block of apartments, the site domain name is actually registered to an address in Iran !
That store front he shows is actually a photo of a Walmart store with a different sign photoshopped on:
http://assets.inhabitat.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2010/12/21-Million-to-Commercial-3.jpg
The 3 basic tests you can make of an online store.
1) Check the domain name whois owner information, many of the Chinese counterfeit sites will be immediately exposed, (anything from China would be fakes.)
http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
2) Test 2: check the Contact Us page, if there is no identifying phone# or address forget it, imagine how easily an email alone can be ignored.
3) Search the web for complaints, try Googling: "thesite.com" scam, to see if it's been submitted to fraud site registries, a site under 3 months old may not yet be included even it deserving.