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Scammers rebuild fake shopping sites within hours of a takedown

One retail scam used more than 1,200 look-alike .shop domains sharing a single IP address.

Scammers rebuild fake shopping sites within hours of a takedown

The sites reused HTML, JavaScript and payment-page designs intended to harvest card numbers, expiry dates and security codes, according Akamai’s Fraud and Abuse Report 2026. A ticket scam used a similar setup. Several websites impersonating official ticketing and hospitality portals for a major sporting event were designed to route payment and personal information to the same collection system.

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Reported by helpnetsecurity.com.

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