About 1.219 site has been turned off by British police. Thousands of these sites have been advertising a lot of big brands such as Ugg boots, Tiffany jewelry and Links of London, which eventually removed by the British Metropolitan Police. Asian criminal gangs believed to be the mastermind of the thousands fake sites online stores. Customers who bought items from the site will not accept anything, or even the buyer’s credit card will be stolen.
More than 400 sites were removed, had advertised shoe boots products including Ugg boots. Geng criminals make the site look legitimate by registering domain names with”. co.uk “at the end of the URL and also get a lot of money from the results of these scams. British police working with providers of domain names, Nominet, has been deleting these fake sites, including Australiaugg4shop.co.uk, hotlinksshop.co.uk and etiffany-shop.co.uk.
According to Nominet, the site counterfeiters using fake or hide details in the email address anonym when they sign up, and almost impossible to trace. Nick Wenban-Smith, senior consultant of Nominet, which regulates more than 7 million domain names in English, he said these sites have been frozen, and can not be registered or ‘recycled’ again.
