Scammers can generatively create sites, I catch niche items in searches when I’m checking the world for something no longer in production.
Sister’s fiancé is a “shoehound” so I had to be fairly firm and repeat that if something is out of stock everywhere and was a limited run, she’s not going to find it online unless it’s outright fraud or cheap counterfeit. Far more likely to be the former and it isn’t worth the energy to have to go through a chargeback process in either case.
I don’t doubt they do good business on whatever identity/card/bank info theft, the sketchiness of these sites in UI and that wowstorenotascam.biz is mostly outweighed by the perceived need for something the person can’t realistically have and at not-insane resale prices.
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