> How can i tell if a website is legit. www.onlypuma.org?

How can i tell if a website is legit. www.onlypuma.org?

Posted at: 2015-03-04 
100% scam.

That is a fake website pretending to sell cheap merchandise.

Any site that advertises merchandise cheaper than the official manufacture's website is a fake site shipping gosh awful crappy knock-offs or simply collecting cash and not even bothering to ship fakes.

The pictures on the site look like the real merchandise because those pictures ARE of the official merchandise. Those pictures were stolen from the official manufacture's website. If you receive anything at all, which is doubtful, it will not resemble those pretty pictures at all.

The payment options say it all, Western Union, moneygram and paypal. The credit card icons are just there for show, that site does not accept credit cards, only anonymous cash payments.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Paypal can only get your money back if there is money left in the scammer's paypal linked bank account. Scammers know this and will withdraw your money immediately, no money in the account means no possibility of refund for you.

In all seriousness, when something goes wrong, what will you do? Send an email that is ignored and blocked? Send chat requests until you are ip banned? Call internationally and speak fluent Chinese?

The UPS, TNT and DHL icons are there only to take up space, that site only ships with EMS, the Chinese post office, good luck getting the "tracking number" they give you to work on the EMS website. You will need even more luck trying to contact EMS when your tracking stops and your "package" is lost somewhere.

You could then be really lucky, your "package" is discovered, seized by "customs" and all you need to do is pay even more money via Western Union or moneygram to the "custom's official" who uses a free email address just like that site has a free email address as its contact information.

Free email addresses are easy to open and close completely anonymously.

Some 95% of sneaker sites asked about here turn out to be Chinese counterfeit sites, perhaps 80% of these sites can be immediately identified by the domain name registration WHOIS information to be Chinese owned, this one using a paid proxy makes investigation more tricky.

Always do a web search for the name, like: "onlypuma.org" scam

Automated reviews says "suspicious"

http://www.scamadviser.com/is-onlypuma.o...

http://www.webutation.net/go/review/only...

The 7 week old site is too new to have made it into many of the human review, scam reporting sites.

A web search does reveal that they have employed an automated spasm linking campaign to attempt to boost search ranking.

The site has the earmarks of a counterfeit site, just the prices lower than the volume discount sites is the biggest clue that they are not authentic, despite what the site claims. Note their contact us link in the upper right is broken, imagine the nightmares if there are any problems.

I could determine that the one other site sharing the same file server: bootssale.org

is a Chinese registered site in all likelihood sharing the same owner:

That registration can be tied to other sites, including:

pumashoeshot.org

christianlouboutinhots.org

vibramfivefingerssales.org

shoesjust.org

You look up the website's registration info.

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-se...

You can see that this site hides its registration info behind a proxy. Basically, they don't want you to know who owns the site.

By looking at site, you can find some clues. First of all, the website has no contact info and the wording on the site is a bit "off". Plus, the website looks like every other website out there that sells cheap Chinese-made counterfeits.

Final Answer: Real website.....Fake shoes.

Try This White Dawg

http://instructions.wikihow.com/Find-if-...

Thanks.

I really like a pair of Pumas that I can only find on their site. I've never bought from this site before an it seems a bit sketch but like I said its the only place I can find the pair I want. Please help

Thanks