How can I protect my jewelry business from counterfeit websites?

Hey @lkstar ,

If you go to https://www.who-hosts-this.com/

you will see that it’s hosted by cloudflare, maybe writing to them with proof regarding what you own, how it’s hurting your brand, and maybe pointing out that cloudflare themselves as a company is supporting this by not taking action would be good to push them.

As you have now experienced, this is the dark side of the e-commerce world and these people do exist in other parts of the internet as well. Of course we have to protect ourselves because we can’t rely on anyone to protect us.

I would advice you to post on all socials about this, add a banner to your website claiming that your url is only maziandzo.com and and other shop links do not belong to you and they are scams, and send out an email to all registered or past customers regarding this.

You could engage lawyers and such, but that’s an expensive procedure and it’s not one you can always rely on. The stuff above should help you minimize alot of damage. Normally when scammers realise that the actual owner has realised what’s going on they also know that their scam is going to fade away, so they stop because scammers don’t like to work hard anyway. If things are going to get difficult, they’ll move on. I’ve seen that from experience. Making as much noise as you can is a better bet than hiring lawyers and all that garbage at the moment.

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