Comments on: How to Report Web Forgery or Spam Website to Google

By: Dr Babar Khan

Dr Babar Khan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:22:34 +0000

I placed an order online for a camera to SHOPHIVE (www.shophive.com), an online shopping portal basrd in Lhr, on 25th August 2009.
I was promptly replied by the shophive people; they confirmed the availability of the item and asked me to deposit the money (Rs. 13990) through bank transfer. Same amount was transferred to their account

Next day I called Shophive and was told camera would be dispatched by TCS and I would receive it within a day.
On 28th August, 3 days after booking, no deliveries were made and when contacted Shophive, I was told that camera was shipped through AMS Couriers, a lesser known company. I called the courier office and I was told that they do not deliver, I have to pick up the parcel. On the same day I picked the parcel from AMS Couriers, Rawalpindi.
When I opened the parcel, the camera and battery were missing from the parcel. I immediately called Shophive and later sent them an email.
I contacted the CEO Shophive, Arslan Nazir and he said that they are investigating the matter and camera was erroneously sent through this unknown company. I bought the story and asked for the next step. I was offered 25-30% off if I still want to get another one. I was also asked to send the box back as they would use it for further investigations and filing a case against the couriers. I sent them the pack through TCS on 4th Sep 2009.

After lot of correspondence with Shophive CEO over weeks, through which he was hesitant to reply I agreed conditionally to book another one and get 30% off. My conditions were that if they think that the couriers stole the camera, Shophive should take up the case and inform me.
When I agreed to send them money again, they raised the price of camera to Rs. 15690. Even then, I sent them the money again through bank transfer. But after receiving the camera, for which I paid Rs. 10980 again, the Shophive plainly refused to follow up the case or return the lost camera remaining accessories which I sent to them.

By: Google-Remove "Reported Attack Site"| This Site May Harm Computer

Google-Remove "Reported Attack Site"| This Site May Harm Computer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:54:38 +0000

[...] If you ever come across such sites, please report them. Here is the procedure to report web forgery / spam sites. [...]

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:58:06 +0000

Just by looking at a website one cannot firmly decide if it is a spam or not. Looking at the website you have provided, what I can say is that the site is still new and has no value as a website. May be the company behind is a big one, but the site has no value as of current.

Also, I don’t see any spammy things there. I cannot say that the mail id cannot spam you. Many of the brands use email marketing as one of the ways to spam you and hence you might have got spams from them. Such questions cannot be answered with confidence.

If you strongly believe this website as forged one, you can report them to Google.

I see that they have copied a vast content from http://www.hyde-engineering.com/ which is bad if they both are same or the former have got rights from latter.

By: Said Bakour

Said Bakour — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:49:42 +0000

Could you please to inform me this website and e-mail attached is forgery or not

info@swibergrouplimited.com

http://www.swibergrouplimited.com/

By: Daryl Laer

Daryl Laer — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:41:18 +0000

Google ’s list HAS been used by competitors and disgruntled users to block sites. I find it very disconcerting that Google are so quick to add sites to their list but are slow, if not reluctant, to remove them.

By: p@r@noid

p@r@noid — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:12:38 +0000

This is nice piece of information. I get almost 5 forgery mails daily. Now I can at least report them.
thanks for the Pavan.

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:11:28 +0000

@venkat

Yes, users should be aware of all these things. The orkut fake pages were spread in a viral way

By: venkat

venkat — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:00:12 +0000

It will be good that users browsing should know thses features provided in Firefox ,so that if they find a phishing site they should inform to Google Directly or through reporting web frogery from help button in Firefox.The more the people aware of this info the better for them to aviod sentiive information loss to these sites,reporting as phishing sites will also help other people to browse these sites again .