Takedown Research
Scam breakdowns.
We point our scanners at well-known brands, then publish what we find: fake storefronts, copied listings, paid ads, and impersonating accounts, side by side with the real thing.
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6 fake Polène stores went live at once, and its bag photos sell $9.80 wholesale totes
polene-parisoutlet.com copied 408 products from Polène's US store and charges exactly a fifth of the real price. 5 more lookalike stores were live, 13 DHgate listings use Polène's raffia photos, and its camel Cyme packshot fronts unbranded totes on Amazon and a wholesale site at $9.80.
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Fake storefronts · Archived evidence · Domain intelligence
A fake Fairfax & Favor store sells the £425 Regina boot for $202, with its own photos
fairfaxandfavorboutique.shop lists Fairfax & Favor boots and bags at 65% off across 124 pages, with the official Regina photo copied pixel for pixel. Its only support address is on the brand's real domain. Two sister domains registered the same summer are already on hold.
2 fake Rivedroite stores sell its bags at up to 70% off, one since December 2024
rivedroitebags.com has sold Rivedroite's bags with copied photos since the day it was registered in December 2024, repeating product names up to 14 times to fill search. A second clone copies the French site and advertises up to 70% off.
A fake Léo et Violette store copied 175 products, down to its packaging collection
leoetviolette.shop uses Léo et Violette's own photos and descriptions, converts euro prices to dollars, then takes 65% off. Its only contact address sits on a domain nobody has registered.
A fake Jonak store sells 285 shoes at 50% off with Jonak's photos and no Jonak name
At least 24 domains have posed as Jonak shops since April 2025. Most are gone. paris-outlet.com, opened 3 days before our check, is live with 285 Jonak-style products at 50% off, and the photos we checked are Jonak's own.
116 fake Bobbies stores since 2022, one disposable domain at a time
Public scan archives have captured 116 websites dressed as Bobbies since 2022, most on domains that look like people's names. 6 new Bobbies lookalike domains are already suspended. The next one keeps arriving.
A fake Cabaïa store copied the catalogue and cut prices by up to 80%
cabaiastore.com runs a complete French-language store under the CABAIA name, with Cabaïa's product categories and named products. A banner promising up to 80% off does the rest.
How this series is made
We follow the evidence
Each brand in this series is selected because it is recognisable and heavily copied. The findings come from what our scanners surface, not from a prepared brief.
The scanner does the research
The same engine our customers use runs the sweep: reverse image matching, certificate monitoring, ad library sweeps, and handle collision checks.
We preserve the evidence
Every report is built from timestamped source and target captures, domain records, storefront signals, and a side-by-side visual assessment.
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