Recognizing rogue webshops

Online security is becoming increasingly important not only for yourself but also in your own hosting space.What you need to pay more and more attention to on the internet nowadays is whether a webshop is legitimate or not.

It is increasingly common that people are scammed on a rogue web shop.There are many different things to look out for before making a purchase online.

In this blog post, we will go through what exactly you should look for in an online shop.

Customer experiences

If you see an online shop then it is also important that you look at the experience of other people.Fake shops often have little or no reviews on it.

If there are reviews on it is also useful to see when they are posted.It can happen to this kind of websites that they are all placed on the same day.

The content of these reviews is also important, if they all look alike then there's a good chance they're fake.You will often see that there are no negative reviews between them.

The contact details

In almost every web store you will find a possibility to contact for support.Think of a phone number, email address, ticket system or live chat.

Often you will see that fake web stores have little or no contact information.If there is an email address listed then you will often see that it is a gmail or hotmail address.

Also, a legitimate web store always has a KVK number listed on their website.You can then look up this number to check whether this is a genuine web store.

Too good to be true

You can often end up on a fake store if you are looking for expensive items, for example.Imagine you are looking for expensive Adidas shoes of 200 euros for example.

Then you end up on a website like "cheap-adidas-shoes.co.uk" for example.Instead of 200 euros, the shoes you are looking for here are only 60 euros for example.

This sounds too good to be true and this is certainly the case.You will then be able to place and pay the orders without any problems and sometimes you will also receive a confirmation.

However, you will never receive the product you ordered and contact will not be possible.

If you have any questions about this, you can always check whether a chat employee is available.If no one is available you can always send a ticket to our helpdesk.