To ask if you think I’ve just been scammed?

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I think I have and I feel sooo stupid.

I followed an Instagram as for the Space Nk 2023 advent calendar advertised as now being 45.99. Website looked like the Space NK website. I ordered and paid.

My receipt to my email said the payment would appear as to ‘leggingsoutlet’ svuch seemed very odd. I checked the website again and it’s Soace NK outlet not actual Space NK.

https://spacenk.outletzoon.com/

I’ve been scammed haven’t I?

OP .. I looked at that advertisement too it was on FB ..

I think everyone on here except maybe you!

I was a couple of clicks away from falling for this one only on Facebook. It was so convincing but just as I was going to pay something just niggled at me. So I googled the Space NK website which said, obviously, it was out of stock. I then just wondered why a random website would have these leftover ones and why Space NK wouldn’t sell them themselves if they had them?

And I’m a police detective so should have known straight away 🤣

It’s actually awesome if you’re into beauty. Even at £235, if you use everything it’s a bargain.

Well personally my reason was if you sell each item individually on eBay you can make a decent amount of profit.

I saw this very ad tonight on FB. Funnily enough, someone had posted a GIF or a meme with 'SCAM ALERT'.

I'm sorry if this has happened to you OP, but your bank should be able to help.

That's incredibly cheap for a beauty advent calendar

And my teen got the same text from 'Royal Mail' Thankfully I was able to alert her before she put her details in. Thing is, it DID coincide with an undelivered parcel. A big coincidence or these scans are getting way more sophisticated.

That's such a good idea. @mnhq would you consider this please? Thank you. 🌹

Definitely a scam. A colleague of mine purchased clothing from Bonmarche - no email confirmation & payment was made to leggings outlet.

Contact your bank asap

I have posted a suggestion on Site Stuff - if you think a 'Scamwatch' topic is a good idea, please add your support for it on this thread:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4972554-new-scamwatch-topic

The thing is, there are potentially infinite websites people can make, so if it's not on this Scamwatch section people may believe it's real. Surely it's better to take approx 15 mins of your life to learn about URLs and remember to Google before typing your bank card details into an electronic form?

I've never ever seen a scammy email/link that had a realistic looking URL.

I almost got caught too - it was on Facebook FFS!!

Do you mean the ad was on FB? Why do you think this has anything to do with what is legitimate or not? (Or do you mean there were posts on FB advising this was a scam?)

I mistakenly thought Facebook may have some kind of vetting system for their advertisers. Apparently not.

I almost fell for it . The ad is on FB now . I just googled outletzoon.

If you're seeing the ad on fb, might be worth clicking "report".

Anyone can post an ad on FB.

I fear the same

Just wanted to let you all know I've fallen for scams only twice in my life and they were both through Insta. I wouldn't use it to purchase anything these days, in fact that goes for all SM.

'outletzoon' is quite a bug clue that's it not the genuine site!

Dh did the same with a very convincing office shoes site on insta. Payment went to leggings outlet. He tried to tell the bank the day he did it, but they wouldn't have it and sort of said to wait and see. Back in touch with them today and they have cancelled all his cards etc. pain in the arse.

Yes. I was taken in too. Slowly dawned on me that it was too good to be true. But luckily I stopped my card before any money was taken.

You aren't stupid it's just a learning curve. It happens

Facebook very clearly don't give a flying fuck what crap is advertised on there as long as they get paid.
I used to report a lot of obvious scams and fake news stories leading to fake newspaper and media websites but Facebook does fuck all.

Martin Lewis had to take them to court to stop his name and image appearing on scams.

They don't give a fuck.

I fell for it too - I’ve called my bank and stopped my card. I’m going to issue a complaint to see if I can get the money back, but bank says I have to wait 2 weeks…

It's best to use credit cards for all online transactions for this reason. You can raise a dispute and cancel the payment quicker and with ease and no risk to your bank account. Hope you get sorted OP, They work on people not paying 100% attention amongst all the post Christmas sales ad's, it's easy to do.