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CoffeeGeek

PSA for Coffee Folks.

There is a new website that popped up, brevilleUS.com, that looks slick and as if it is actually made by Breville as their outlet site.

IT IS A SCAM SITE. 1000% scam. Hat tip to a consumer for pointing me to that. I confirmed with Breville this AM it is a scam. Please spread the word. Worried about people falling for this and losing their hard earned cash.

Spread the word.

cc @coffee @espresso

@coffeegeek I saw one of these a few months ago for le creuset pots, it looked really really realistic. the low prices for sure give it away, though.

@lemay @coffeegeek
There has to be some kind of sweet spot between listing prices so low that the scam is too obvious and suckering as many people as they can before the domain is shut down.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso Here's the best part: The hot chocolate pot is normally $99.95 but if you act fast, you can get it for a mere $105.95.

@LilPecan @SRDas @coffeegeek @coffee @espresso Sorry, but I’m having a hard time imagining what a choc pot could add to a normally stocked kitchen that would be worth $100.

@LilPecan
I can imagine them actually sending it to customers to be able to say "we have shipped products, we are not a scam, we just had some problems with shipping"
@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso

@coffeegeek Dang, 90% off everything might give it away. :)

@coffeegeek

Thank you. I passed it along to some non-fediverse people I know who have Breville products.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso I saw one like that for Rapha cycling clothes. There's lots of these. If you see an ad like this on FB or anywhere like that--it's probably a scam.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso

The fake Breville site brevilleUS[.]com is being hosted on Cloudflare IP address 34.149.140[.]193 which is hosting a TON of other scam eCommerce sites for a bunch of different brands. There appears to be other Breville-themed eCommerce domains which are definitely fake and should be avoided:

brevilleoutlets[.]com - not active at time of analysis.
brevilles[.]us - hosting Breville products, fraudulent.
brevilleofficial[.]us - currently hosting beauty products, but could switch to Breville products at any time.
brevilleuss[.]com - currently hosting firearms products, but could switch to Breville products at any time.

This is just one IP address, there’s likely more out there. These fake storefront sites are a scourge on the internet and pop up so frequently it’s hard to keep up with take-down requests.
urlscan.io/search/#page.ip:%22

Well-established orgs like Breville should have dedicated security teams monitoring for Breville-themed IP infringement/phishing/fraud sites. Regardless, I went ahead and submitted an abuse report to the hosting registrar for all these domains.

urlscan.ioSearch - urlscan.iourlscan.io - Website scanner for suspicious and malicious URLs

@saltmyhash @coffee @espresso this is really good info; I've forwarded it to my contact at Breville.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso

Sad. I use there products! Thanks.

Under the circumstances, you might want to use the Mastodon edit feature obfuscate the link in your post. I like how @saltmyhash did it by enclosing the . in brackets [.] in the URL. Then just screen shot and include the picture. You probably don't want people to click through into a scam.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso get a $2800 machine for $130 or buy this $99 machine for $105

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso

Be suspicious of very high end ANYTHING that's being sold for "unbelievably low LOW prices".

But I'm a warm broth morning drinker and there's no high end market for morning broth, or any kind of broth, ☕ alas.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso I saw one for blundstone shoes too. So cheap it made me suspicious. Advertised on fb or instagram.

@coffeegeek@flipboard.social @coffee@a.gup.pe @espresso@a.gup.pe Contact Google about this (they don't really care, but Breville should also do so, and actually do so with a "cease and desist" type legal letter, that they will care about). By looking (because of your post) shows it's hosted on Google, has full domain privacy, while breville.com (where I'd probably go first) has full information, and is using AWS.

Performance absolutely for me is a red flag. The fake one takes 2 minutes to load. The real one 21 seconds.

More subtle things, fonts are wrong. And to me, pointing out, "this is a bad site" tends to be not that useful. I've
seen bad sites for banks in a 3,000 population city. Pretty much just that one city really served by it. Not that people knowing about that aren't helped, but spotting the fakes is more important.

In doing that, that got me looking at my own site, at least to see if I can find something useful with it. Thank you. Also, I'd probably be trying to find someone local to buy from (not that they didn't get scammed).

@JigmeDatse So, before I made a public post, I did submit the site to Breville direct (I have a lot of contacts with the company, including the President, Global Beverages), to a) let them know about it, and b) confirm it was a scam site.

Once I did that, and knew Breville was taking action (they are), I then posted the PSA to all my social media reach (which is, combined, about 75,000 people).

I assume their lawyers + tech people are on the ball on this.

@coffeegeek@flipboard.social Awesome. Glad that people who do have connections actually care about this. I have the technical knowledge to see the technical flags as to why a site looks suspicious, but there's not much I really can do about it.

What I
do do about it, is share what I notice when I do some level of investigation. Hopefully with the understanding that just because of any of those things in particular (or even all of them) it doesn't prove that something is worth considering "suspicious" or "a scam".

I take it someone contacted you of a bad experience?

@JigmeDatse a consumer contacted me via IG about 2 days ago, asking if it was a scam; it looks like it has just gone online in the last few days.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso So how does that work? I assume you're supposed to send them money to some account. How do they withdraw the money they scammed without the police finding them?

@yora @coffee @espresso I wouldn't be surprised if they ask for payment via Bitcoin or something.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso

Message heard and understood.

BREVILLE IS A SCAM!

@TheStrangeGM mate, you may have missed taking your meds this AM. 😉

@coffeegeek @Kancept @coffee @espresso The usual rule of thumb still applies - if it looks too good to be true, it usually is.

@coffeegeek @coffee @espresso the internet is priming consumers to only pay full price to well-established huge corporations....

@janisf @coffeegeek @coffee @espresso not here.... my local roasters will nor be replaced.