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Is this a scam site or not? - Dsadaserr - 11-09-2012 09:34 AM
http://www.thenorthfacestyle.com/index.php?main_page=login
I saw it on the side of Facebook just now, the sponsoring ads section?
Is this a scam?
- arsenic sauce - 11-09-2012 09:43 AM
There was a little chinese sign on the sign, so I wouldn't trust it. Try amazon or eBay if you want cheap stuff. Or you could go to their regular site http://www.thenorthface.com but as you know, it's all expensive
- Drizzy - 11-09-2012 09:43 AM
Of course not. It's a company that makes jackets. As long you don't try to sell it to people.
- nayf n - 11-09-2012 09:43 AM
don`t trust.
Fake website for a lot of reasons.
Good Luck.
- RichlyCrispy - 11-09-2012 09:43 AM
Although The North Face is a company, their site is http://www.thenorthface.com
The registration information for the link you posted looks a little sketchy, as in it was only registered a few days ago and it's registered in Norway where as the official site is registered in the United States...
That may not mean it's definitely a scam, but it is cause for concern.
- deepjellyfish679 - 11-09-2012 09:43 AM
100% scam.
That is a fake website pretending to sell cheap merchandise.
Any site that advertises merchandise cheaper than the official manufacture's website is a fake site shipping gosh awful crappy knock-offs or simply collecting cash and not even bothering to ship fakes.
The pictures on the site look like the real merchandise because those pictures ARE of the official merchandise. Those pictures were stolen from the official manufacture's website. If you receive anything at all, which is doubtful, it will not resemble those pretty pictures at all.
The payment options say it all, Western Union and moneygram. The credit card icons are just there for show, that site does not accept credit cards, only anonymous cash payments.
Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.
In all seriousness, when something goes wrong, what will you do? Send an email that is ignored and blocked? Send chat requests until you are ip banned? Call internationally and speak fluent Chinese?
That site only ships with EMS, the Chinese post office, good luck getting the "tracking number" they give you to work on the EMS website. You will need even more luck trying to contact EMS when your tracking stops and your "package" is lost somewhere.
You could then be really lucky, your "package" is discovered, seized by "customs" and all you need to do is pay even more money via Western Union or moneygram to the "custom's official" who uses a free email address just like that site has a free email address as its contact information.
Free email addresses are easy to open and close completely anonymously.