A fake 'official' Rat & Boa store copied all 416 products and 305 of its photos
ratandboaofficial.shop lists 416 products, the same number ratandboa.com carried on the day we captured it, and marks most of them 70% off. Rat & Boa's own homepage title says it sells online exclusively from its website. The fake, registered on 14 June 2026, calls itself the official site. Three other Rat & Boa .shop domains had already been suspended by their registry.
TL;DR
- 416: Products on the fake store
- 305: Photos matching Rat & Boa's own
- 70%: Off every reduced item
- $39.76: Price of a £100 gift card
- First step: Archive ratandboaofficial.shop now
Captured 25 Sep 2026 · 14:50 UTC
- 416
- Products on the fake store
- 305
- Photos matching Rat & Boa's own
- 70%
- Off every reduced item
- $39.76
- Price of a £100 gift card
Rat & Boa's photos inside a generic template
The official Rat & Boa site is built around its photography: a serif wordmark, a short menu of New In, Shop All, Dresses, Occasion, Jewellery and Our World, and full-bleed campaign images shot against painted walls and open sky. Prices are in sterling. There is no sale banner.
ratandboaofficial.shop keeps the wordmark and drops it into a generic store layout: a grey promotion bar reading Up to 70% Off Selected Items, a search box, a menu of New In, Clothing, Swim and Beach, Accessories and Shop, and product pages with the brand's descriptions and dollar prices. On the day of our capture, the homepage hero and several product images failed to load. The product pages that did load showed Rat & Boa's photographs.
Rat & Boa tells shoppers it sells only through its own website. ratandboaofficial.shop claims to be that website.
What we caught
The domain adds official to the brand name. The page title, Shop exclusively online through our official site | Rat & Boa, closely paraphrases the real site's title and sits above the RAT & BOA wordmark.
The store lists 416 products across 35 pages. 385 use the exact product URL of an item on ratandboa.com. The descriptions we checked, including the Rheta Skirt and Theia Dress, are copied word for word.
The store served image files for 350 products. 305 match a Rat & Boa photo once backgrounds are trimmed, and 196 have an image-hash distance of zero, meaning the file is the same photograph.
The crossed-out prices are Rat & Boa's sterling prices, relabelled in dollars or converted at about 1.33. Every reduced item is exactly 70% off. The £925 Theia Dress shows $1,226.13, cut to $367.84.
The evidence, page by page
The same campaign photograph on both sites. £325 on ratandboa.com, $129.24 on the fake store.
Rat & Boa's description word for word, and its £165 price relabelled as $165.00, then cut to $49.50.
A £100 Rat & Boa gift card in the brand's own card design, offered for $39.76.
The only contact address is on ratboa.com, a domain nobody has registered.
Template filler promising global express shipping, exclusive design pieces and a secure checkout.
385 product URLs match ratandboa.com exactly
We downloaded every product on the fake store and compared it with the public catalogue on ratandboa.com. Both had 416 products. 385 of the fake's product addresses match a live Rat & Boa product exactly. The other 31 carry Rat & Boa-style names such as Fantini, Farretti and Mazari that we could not find in the current official catalogue.
For 64 items, including every new arrival on the homepage, the store shows Rat & Boa's sterling price with a dollar sign. The £165 Rheta Skirt appears as $165.00, reduced to $49.50. Older items were converted at about 1.33 dollars to the pound. The store also sells Rat & Boa gift cards: a £100 card for $39.76, down from $132.55.
The only contact email cannot receive mail
The contact page lists one address: support@ratboa.com. Nobody has registered ratboa.com, so that inbox cannot receive mail. A shopper who pays and never gets an order has no one to write to except the real Rat & Boa.
The rest is template filler. A Why Choose Us block promises global express shipping, exclusive design pieces and a secure checkout. The FAQ claims orders ship within 24 hours and that the store takes all major cards, PayPal, Apple Pay and Klarna. The About page calls Rat & Boa a contemporary fashion house for the global wanderer, wording we did not find on the official site.
3 .shop lookalikes already suspended
Three more Rat & Boa .shop domains were on registry hold and could not resolve: ratandboastore.shop, registered on 13 April 2026, ratandboashop.shop, registered on 3 May, and ratandboaboutique.shop, registered on 17 September and last updated five days later. ratandboashop.shop used the same registrar as the live store, and both used Cloudflare nameservers. ratandboa.net and ratandboa.org, registered in 2014, showed blank pages.
The marketplace sweep was mostly noise, because Rat & Boa shares its words with the snake-feeding trade. Amazon and Alibaba returned frozen feeder rats, rat traps and plush toys, and AliExpress returned unrelated goods. eBay showed second-hand Rat & Boa resale and one listing openly titled as a Rat And Boa dupe. Temu, TikTok Shop and ads returned nothing. An exact-image search on 12 official photos found two hijacked websites indexed with Rat & Boa product images and a few resale and editorial pages. No marketplace listing was passing the photos off as its own.
How to shut it down
The takedown plan, step by step, built from the evidence above.
Archive ratandboaofficial.shop now
Save the product pages, prices, gift card listing, contact page, checkout path, DNS records and registration date while the store is live.
File with the registrar and the host
Send each one evidence package built on the 305 matched photographs and the copied product text.
Lead with the photographs
Pair each copied image with its original on ratandboa.com. Copied photography is among the easiest claims to prove and often the fastest route to removal.
Watch new .shop registrations
The registry has already suspended three Rat & Boa .shop domains. Monitor new names that add official, store, shop or boutique to the brand.
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Summary
Every unanswered order ends up at Rat & Boa
Rat & Boa's clearest message to shoppers is that it sells only through its own website. The fake store took that sentence, added official to a domain and copied the whole catalogue underneath, gift cards included.
Its only contact address cannot receive mail. A shopper who buys a $39.76 gift card or a $367.84 dress there and hears nothing back has one place to turn: Rat & Boa. Three lookalike domains were suspended before we reached them. The one still up is the one that looks most like the real thing.
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