Can someone shed light on this link?

PAZP
Valued Contributor II

I was using a new search engine, freespoke.com, and typed Zazzle into the search field. The first two sites listed come up as the Z .com link. Then I scrolled down a little bit and found a third link that shows a Z .us.com link with the title “Zazzle Official Site USA”. The home page shows a Christmas in July banner. 

I went to the link and clicked the blue “sign in” but it doesn’t do anything as well other elements that look like links. The top row of titles do go to links that show a page of product info. The bottom of the page looks like a cut and paste of the Zazzle page. It looks like some kind of a test page but I'm just curious. 

 

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Windy
Honored Contributor II

Using Google, I typed in Zazzle.us.com and got a blue page which has the title WELCOM (not welcome) and it claims to want to give me 25 percent off. It looks suspicious and had a grammatical error.. I did not go further into this site.

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ColsCreations
Honored Contributor II

That's an interesting find. I checked the WHOIS info for the domain. It was registered quite recently, late April of 2022, with Namecheap as the Registrar. Compared to the WHOIS for the real Zazzle.com, it's highly suspect nevermind the weirdness of the page content itself. And sourcing the page reveals it was created using a $59 WordPress theme. Certainly looks like someone is up to no good here trying to spoof the Zazzle site. And If there was any doubt about this being somehow legit related to Zazzle, the text under the category headers says you can buy things like cat clothes, sports bras, bibs, faux taxidermy heads, and brimless pee hats. What?  LOL.

If Zazzle doesn't already know about this site they do now and I'm sure their legal team will be all over it.

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PAZP
Valued Contributor II

I don't normally go to what I call suspect pages BUT I really don't click on anything if I do. Yet there I was trying to figure it out. 

Windy
Honored Contributor II

@Scott Please let us know if http://www.zazzle.us.com is an official part of Zazzle. 

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Scott
Community Manager
Community Manager

Thanks for mentioning this site. I've passed it along.

Windy
Honored Contributor II

I tried the us.com link just now, and it's now dead. I think it's a good thing you brought this up!

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PAZP
Valued Contributor II

I looked in freespoke.com and it's still listed but if I click it reads "This site can't be reached". 👍