Beware the Fakes

Did you find an awesome statue of Odin with a price to good to be true? Maybe some cheap jewelry? There’s a reason for that: theft. The internet is plagued now with online shopping sites like Temu, Wish, Shein, Aliexpress, and far, far more. If the website url seems odd, or gibberish or some mash up of a real word then random junk, you’re being scammed. If product description fails to tell you materials used, you definitely are. These sites take other designs, artwork, goods and recreate inferior knock-offs without any financial compensation to the original artist or business. They then sell the fakes reaping profits while the original artist loses out on sales, impacting their livelihood. These sites also now have access to your credit card information, and personal information… everything they need to steal from you sooner or later too.

Online Store with stolen photos (scraped from the official store) selling cheap knockoffs
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