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A fake Pangaia store sells the 365 hoodie for $38.15 and lists Pangaia's own support email

pangaiastore.shop is a working store selling Pangaia clothing under the PANGAIA wordmark. Registered on 13 July 2026, it was one of 15 Pangaia lookalike domains our sweep found registered or live. An exact-image search on 15 official product photos found a second route to shoppers: unrelated websites, apparently compromised, indexed with Pangaia product pages that forwarded visitors to a discount store.

25 Sep 20266 min readTakedown Research

TL;DR

  • 74%: Visual similarity
  • 65%: Advertised discount
  • $38.15: Fake price of the 365 hoodie
  • 11: Hijacked sites indexed with Pangaia pages
  • First step: Archive pangaiastore.shop now

Captured 25 Sep 2026 · 13:52 UTC

Archived storefront evidenceCaptured 25 Sep 2026 · 13:52 UTC
Officialpangaia.com
Official Pangaia storefront captured by Takedown
Fakepangaiastore.shop
Fake Pangaia storefront captured by Takedown
74%
Visual similarity
65%
Advertised discount
$38.15
Fake price of the 365 hoodie
11
Hijacked sites indexed with Pangaia pages

A new homepage wrapped around Pangaia's name

Pangaia's homepage is editorial: a black sign-up bar, a centred PANGAIA wordmark, a short Women, Men, Kids, Our Mission menu and full-width campaign photos of people wearing the collection.

pangaiastore.shop moves the wordmark left, adds a search bar and expands the menu into Women, Men, Kids, Staples, Fabric & Innovation, Accessories and Sale. Its hero is a still life of folded sweats under the line Engineered Essentials for the Future, with one Shop Now button. The visual assessment rated it a likely copycat at 74% similarity with 88% confidence.

The homepage is new. The product copy and the support inbox belong to Pangaia.

What we caught

01 · © 2026 PANGAIA in the footerHeader and page title

pangaiastore.shop leads with the PANGAIA wordmark. Its page title, Materials science brand dedicated to environmental conservation, paraphrases Pangaia's own, and its footer reads © 2026 PANGAIA.

02 · Pangaia's own product descriptionsProduct pages

The store sells the older 365 Midweight line with Pangaia's own descriptions: 320 GSM organic cotton, PPRMINT™ oil treatment, Made in Portugal. The product photos appear to be Pangaia's studio shots.

03 · A $109 hoodie for $38.15Pricing

Most featured items are marked down 65%. The Womens 365 Midweight Hoodie in navy drops from $109.00 to $38.15, and kids' 365 pieces from $59.00 to $20.65. pangaia.com sells its current Midweight Hoodie for $205.

04 · Support routes to PangaiaContact page

The Get in Touch page lists support@pangaia.com as the store's customer service email. Any buyer with an order problem ends up in Pangaia's inbox.

The evidence, page by page

pangaiastore.shop product page for the Womens 365 Midweight Hoodie in navy
pangaiastore.shop · product

Womens 365 Midweight Hoodie in navy, with Pangaia's 320 GSM and PPRMINT™ copy. From $38.15.

pangaiastore.shop product carousel with 65% discounts and generic reviews
pangaiastore.shop · reviews

A $109.00 hoodie at $38.15 and $79.00 shorts at $27.65, above reviews signed Julian R., Elena W. and Marcus L.

Why Choose Us block on pangaiastore.shop claiming 10,000+ customers
pangaiastore.shop · Why Choose Us

The template block: 10,000+ happy customers, 500+ products, 50+ countries.

pangaiastore.shop contact page listing support@pangaia.com
pangaiastore.shop · contact

The store's only contact address is Pangaia's own support email.

sellsbotiko.click store listing Pangaia hoodies at 20.93 euros
sellsbotiko.click

Where the hijacked search pages led: Pangaia hoodies at €20.93, images loaded from pangaia.com.

Stock blocks claim 10,000+ happy customers

Below the product carousel, the store switches to generic parts. A Why Choose Us block claims 10,000+ happy customers, 500+ products and 50+ countries. A review section shows three five-star quotes signed with a first name and initial: Julian R., Elena W. and Marcus L.

None of it is specific to Pangaia, and none of the numbers are sourced. These are stock blocks from a ready-made store kit, dropped between real Pangaia product names and photos to make the page feel established.

Hijacked search pages fed a store registered that day

The exact-image search returned 1,905 matches for 15 official product photos. Most weren't copies: plain black and grey sweats photograph alike, so the search also surfaced other brands' own shots. The results naming Pangaia included 11 unrelated websites, among them a Mexican municipal planning institute and a flooring supplier in Azerbaijan, indexed with pages titled as Pangaia hoodies and track pants.

At least three of those pages forwarded visitors to sellsbotiko.click, registered on 25 September 2026, the day of our capture. It listed around 30 Pangaia hoodies at €20.93 each against a claimed regular price of €41.86. Its images loaded directly from pangaia.com. Its product titles were copied from retailer and press listings, some still ending in the retailer's name. Two of the 11 sites had already had their hosting accounts suspended.

Mostly parked domains, and 3 to watch

Most other domains were parked or for sale, including pangaia.org, pangaia.site, pangaa.com, pangai.com and pangia.com. pangaiashop.com was an unfinished French-language store template full of placeholder text, with no products. Three need monitoring: pangaiashop.shop, registered on 7 May 2026 with no website yet; pangaiaonline.com, which pointed at an e-commerce platform but returned an error; and pangaia.life, now lapsed into its redemption period.

Marketplaces were quiet. Alibaba returned pangasius fish and panga boats, AliExpress returned generic hoodies, and Temu and TikTok Shop returned nothing. eBay showed second-hand Pangaia resale. Amazon returned a batch of Pangaia-branded listings, but the seller wasn't visible to us, so we couldn't confirm who sells them. Several Rozetka listings titled The Pangaia sold tracksuits for ₴6,900. We couldn't open those pages to check them.

How to shut it down

The takedown plan, step by step, built from the evidence above.

1

Archive pangaiastore.shop now

Capture the homepage, product pages, prices, contact page, checkout path, DNS records and registration date while the store is live.

2

File with the host and the registrar

The store's address points straight at its hosting provider. Send one evidence package to the host and a separate one to the registrar.

3

Report sellsbotiko.click and its redirects

Submit sellsbotiko.click with the pangaia.com image URLs it loads, and alert the owners of the hijacked sites so they can remove the injected pages.

4

Monitor store, shop and online domains

Watch pangaiashop.shop, pangaiaonline.com and any new Pangaia domain that adds a retail word such as store, shop or online.

Take it down yourself, or have us do it

Summary

Every confused buyer writes to Pangaia

pangaiastore.shop has no customer service of its own. It lists support@pangaia.com, so any buyer who needs help with an order ends up in Pangaia's inbox, asking about a sale Pangaia never made.

The second route needs no typed domain at all. A shopper searching for a Pangaia hoodie could land on a hijacked page and get passed to a store registered the same day.

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