My shopify store is illegally being mirrored/cloned without our authorization

Store Design
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I’ve noticed that our Shopify store was being mirrored/cloned by a different domain name.

It’s strange how all changes get reflected immediately on that cloned website.

Any content on our website is re-worded as their website, too.

For example, info@ourwebsite.com is changed to info@fakeclonedwebsite.com .

I do not know what this fake website is trying to gain from it but so far, I reported to Shopify’s DMCA request at https://help.shopify.com/en/legal/dmca#/login but they only advised that they cannot provide any legal advice.

I reported all webpages to google as they are stealing our traffic and also reported to FBI.

I found a thread on Shopify discussion and those other Shopify users have inserted a code on theme.liquid to stop the cloning but I wasn’t able to get this done correctly.

Anyone has experienced this issue?

Any advice you can give?

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there is a post about it on reddit here is the link reddit how to take down cloned site

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Thank you so much for your help.

Would you know if we just keep on adding additional codes when we noticed more domains mirroring our site going forward?

Thanks

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yes you would have to put the new domain per the code you can add it to the the top of the other if statement something like

//this statement evokes (calls the code) 

if(document.URL.indexOf("InsertMirrorUrlHere") >= 0){

window.location.href = "InsertCorrectUrlHere"; }
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I have this happening to one of my shopify sites! Can I have the full code? I can NOT get it fixed yet. Any help would be amazing!!

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@TwistedMissy - we had this happen too, and figured out a solution. If you are still experiencing this issue LMK and I can try and help you!

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hi there, what is the solution - can you help me please