A fake Castore store copied 3,422 products, England Rugby's 26/27 kit included
castorestore.shop is selling Castore team kit and sportswear under the Castore name, with almost every item marked 65% off. The catalogue runs to 286 pages and 3,422 products, and the product photos we checked are Castore's own. It was the one live store among 100 Castore lookalike domains we checked.
- 3,422
- Products on the fake store
- 65%
- Standard discount
- 35
- Other sites showing 2 Castore photos
- 2
- Lookalike domains already suspended
Castore's own tagline over kit at 65% off
castore.com is an editorial sportswear store: the winged Castore mark, a slim Men, Sports, Women and Sale menu, and full-bleed campaign photography. castorestore.shop looks different at first glance. It has a plain white header, a generic hero image, and a corner logo from an unrelated organic-products brand, probably left over from its template.
The catalogue is where it gets convincing. The page title is 'Precision Performance Sportswear | Castore', Castore's own tagline. The menu offers Golf, Sports and Teams, and the store is full of kit a supporter would recognise: Kent Spitfires T20 shirts, Harlequins Pride jerseys, England Rugby home kit and England Cricket caps, each with a red -65% badge.
It sells Castore's catalogue, with Castore's photos, at a third of the price.
What we caught
England Rugby, Harlequins, Kent Cricket, club merchandise, golf and training wear. The catalogue even carries England Rugby's 26/27 travel range.
We ran two of the store's product photos through an exact-image search. Both led straight back to the matching castore.com product pages, and the files are the same 970 × 1219 pixels as Castore's originals.
The England Rugby 25/26 home shirt is $24.85, down from an 'original' $71.00. Castore lists it at £85, currently reduced to £42.50. A Harlequins replica shirt goes for $4.90.
The same two photos appear on 35 other websites, most unrelated to sport, hosting pages of scraped shirt listings. They include a church, a coach company and a university news site.
The evidence, piece by piece
Castore's Harlequins Pride shirt photo, left, and the same file on the fake store. Image-hash distance: 3.
The England Rugby 25/26 home shirt for $24.85, down from an 'original' $71.00. Castore lists it at £85.
Page 286 of 286: England Rugby's 26/27 travel range, 65% off.
The only contact listed is a support address at castore.com, plus a message form.
A McLaren Team 'Castore Core' T-shirt from US $2.85, one piece minimum.
The official front and back photos of Castore's McLaren Core Essentials T-shirt, left, and the same photos on the DHgate listing with the seller's watermark added. Image-hash distances: 0 and 2 out of 192.
The listing that uses the Castore name. It showed US $2.85–11.62 on 26 September and US $20.75 for one piece a day later, with 6 transactions and 4 reviews. Built from listing data because DHgate showed us an Access Denied page.
Google's exact-image index matched the same official photo on DHgate listings from five different sellers. By 27 September, four of the listings had been reused to sell other shirts.
Product addresses copied from castore.com
The fake store's product addresses match Castore's. The Kent shirt sits at /products/red-kent-spitfires-t20-shirt on both sites, and the Harlequins Pride shirt at /products/harlequins-23-24-replica-pride-jersey-mens. Each product carries a full feature list and description. With matching addresses, the catalogue looks pulled from castore.com automatically.
The photos came with the product data. An exact-image search on the fake store's Harlequins photo returned Castore's own product page first, and our image-hash comparison found a distance of 3: the same photograph. The store is current, too. It lists England Rugby's 26/27 travel T-shirt at $26.25 and the travel joggers at $42.00, each 65% below an 'original' price.
The domain was registered through Dynadot on 5 June 2026 and uses Cloudflare nameservers. At capture it pointed to a server on a US-registered hosting network. The contact page lists only a support address at castore.com plus a message form. The returns page promises a 28-day window in one paragraph and a 30-day window a few lines later.
A $2.85 'Castore Core' T-shirt on DHgate, with official photos
The two image searches also found the Kent and Harlequins photos on 35 other websites, most unrelated to sport: a church, a coach operator, a taekwondo club, a real-estate agency and a university news site. These pages carry machine-generated shirt listings under unrelated domains, the pattern we see when legitimate websites are compromised to host shop pages.
Two other lookalikes were already down. castoreuk.com was registered on 29 April 2026 and placed on client hold by 1 June. castore.store, registered in August 2025, is on server hold and pending deletion. A third, castorestore.com, returned a Cloudflare error saying its DNS pointed to a prohibited IP address.
On DHgate, a Castore search returned one listing using the name: a McLaren Team 'Castore Core' T-shirt from US $2.85. Its front and back photos are the official retail photos of Castore's McLaren Core Essentials T-shirt with the seller's watermark added, at image-hash distances of 0 and 2. Google's image index matched the same photo on DHgate listings from four other sellers. By 27 September, all four had been reused to sell other shirts.
No order placed, and Amazon came back licensed
castore.com blocked our automated product checks, so we could not download its full catalogue or compare every price directly. Official prices here come from Google's index of castore.com. We placed no order with the fake store and cannot say what, if anything, a buyer would receive.
Marketplace coverage was limited. DHgate blocked us from opening listing pages, so its details come from listing data. The DHgate results Google showed as 'Castore hoodies' were band-tour and fashion hoodies: the word Castore appeared only in DHgate's search text, never in the sellers' own titles. Our Alibaba and AliExpress searches returned casters and earphones. On Amazon, Castore's official photos appear on 59 listings across 11 Amazon marketplaces, almost all licensed Formula One team wear. We could not match those sellers to the brand, and we found no evidence they are selling fakes.
How to shut it down
The takedown plan, step by step, built from the evidence above.
Archive the store before it moves
Save castorestore.shop's catalogue, product pages, prices, contact page and DNS records before the operator moves the store to a new domain.
Report castorestore.shop in one package
Send the registrar, Cloudflare and the hosting network the matching product addresses, the identical photos and the Castore name on every page.
Delist the hijacked pages
Ask search engines to delist the hijacked pages carrying Castore's photos, and alert the site owners, who are probably unaware.
Watch every kit launch
The fake store already lists 26/27 kit. Monitor lookalike domains and image search around each launch, when demand peaks.
Every kit launch gives the fake more to copy
castorestore.shop copies Castore's catalogue: product names, web addresses, descriptions and photos. That's enough to put a real England shirt photo on screen at a third of the price, with a castore.com address as the only contact, so any complaint lands with Castore.
Castore's biggest sales moments are kit launches. The fake already lists 26/27 kit, and every new release gives it more to copy.
Scan your own brand
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