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Christmas, BlackFriday, Summer Sale,…<\/h2>\n\n

Every year there are periods when special offers are put online. This offers everyone the opportunity to make great bargains. At the same time, this time is also a haven for scammers to make decent money with so-called fakeshops. On these stores also “great” offers are made, which are usually even cheaper than the “competition”. This entices the “customers” to store on these websites. The customers wait in vain for their goods…<\/p>\n\n

A new bike<\/h2>\n\n
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As an example of such fake stores, we would like to purchase a bicycle. Specifically, we would like a bike from the premium brand Radon. If you search for this type of bike on Google, you will come across 3 webshops relatively quickly, which we will take a closer look at below.<\/p>\n\n

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bike-discount.com<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First, let’s look at the bike-discount.de store, as this domain sounds the most “eye-catching” (subjective evaluation :). Here, all simple checks are processed, as they are also used for the analysis of e.g. phishing pages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1. google research “fake\/consumer protection”.<\/h2>\n\n

The first check is simple, but efficient. You check whether the store or the domain (what is at the top of the URL) already appears on the Internet in connection with the terms ‘fake’ or ‘consumer protection’. Here, the corresponding links provide information about whether it is already known that the website is a fake.<\/p>\n\n

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Result<\/h3>\n\n

The website bike-discount.de has some entries related to the terms ‘fake’ and ‘consumer protection’. However, it can be seen that bike-discount.de is not a fake store, but that this store is copied from counterfeiters and is itself the original.<\/p>\n\n

2. footer<\/h2>\n\n

Here there are different aspects which should be checked:<\/p>\n\n