Recently our social media account under the video appeared a lot of customers encountered engine fraud scam message, we understand the situation, and intend to organize the relevant content into an article to help some customers who have not yet purchased to avoid such a scam!
Many scam websites and even some large shopping sites sell counterfeit model engine products. Because this category of products is relatively niche and expensive to manufacture, the selling price of model engine products is often high.
Many scam sellers take advantage of this and use images of real model engines to promote their products and sell them at very low prices on scam websites or large shopping platforms to scam new buyers who are unfamiliar with these niche products. Most of the people who are scammed end up losing money or receiving poor quality products that do not meet their expectations!
How Scam Websites Trick Users: Common Tactics Explained
1. Extremely Low Prices: Scam websites sell high-value products, most commonly cison v8 kits and teching v8 kits, at extremely low prices. The prices listed on the scam websites are usually 3-5% of the actual price of the product, mostly around $20-$40, sometimes even lower.
2. Disposable websites: Many scam websites have only a single product page, and there is no clear enough contact information on the page. Most of the domain names are temporary, when there are too many complaints, they will just close the site and change the domain name to reappear, after being cheated customers often can not find these fraudulent sites again, it is difficult to track.
3. Fake advertisements: Fraudulent websites often put some professional advertisement video footage filmed with the original actual products on YouTube or Facebook, and use the advertisement footage filmed with the real products to attract people to click and induce them to make purchases.
4. Fake discounts: Fraudulent websites usually display very strong limited-time discounts on the product pages to attract buyers to make impulse orders.
5. Fake resellers: some fraudulent websites will directly copy the brand's official website images and product-related information directly over, and mark a very low discount price, the page shows the selling price is often less than one-third of the real price, so as to create a tempting very high discounts, to attract customers to place an order.
6. Impostor website: Some impostor websites will choose to use the domain name very similar to the official website of a well-known brand, so that customers think that this website is an official channel, misleading customers to place orders on the imitation website, there is a very high risk of transaction.
In general, the most important feature of these fraudulent websites is that the price is unusually low, and many of the relevant details of the website page can not withstand scrutiny, and most of the content that is displayed is false.
The page will deliberately pile up a large number of customer impulsive order can be triggered to induce the elements, coupled with this type of fraudulent website will be operating from the real official website of the brand in the real product images and materials used to disguise the degree of professionalism, many customers do not carry out a full investigation of the customer is easy to be attracted to mistakenly place an order.
What Buyers Often Experience After a Scam
There are also online posts where buyers have shared their experiences after being scammed. The comment sections of these posts include detailed accounts from multiple customers, which can serve as helpful references for other buyers.
Based on these shared experiences, we’ve summarized some of the most common situations buyers tend to encounter after being scammed：
1. Most customers who place an order on a scam website often actually receive a cheap plastic model instead of the product shown on the page.
2. Most of the contact information on the scam sites is invalid and it becomes very difficult to request a refund. Even when contacted, the sellers on these scam sites only offer refunds for amounts much less than the purchase price.
3. Some fraudulent sellers will use the point that “it is reasonable to return the product at your own expense if there is no problem with the quality of the product” to set up a trap by presenting obviously poor quality counterfeit goods that are not as advertised as “the product itself is just like that, there is no problem with the quality”, and then requiring the buyer to return the product at their own expense.
They then require the buyer to return the product at their own expense in order to receive a full refund, even though the product itself is not worth the money.
On the surface, the process looks like a “normal return”, but in reality the problem is that the product itself is not the same as the product actually displayed on the website.
The result is that the buyer has already paid for the inferior product, and if they choose to return it, they will have to bear another shipping cost; if they don't return it, they will lose both money and goods, and the fraudulent seller will be able to minimize their losses or even make a profit anyway.
How to Avoid Being Scammed
1. Please make sure to purchase through official websites or reliable channels, such as official websites like us. We are responsible for every product we sell, ensuring quality and authenticity guaranteed.
2. Be wary of low prices, if the price of the product is obviously unreasonably low, there is likely to be a problem. You can search for such products on Google to understand the actual approximate price, used to correspond to determine whether the price on the website is within a reasonable range.
3. Verify the contact information and customer service information on the website. Regular websites will provide clear contact information and perfect customer service, if the relevant information is missing or vague, you need to be more vigilant.
Cison V8 and Teching V8 are two of the most popular and most frequently used products by fraudulent websites.
Since there are so many customers who prefer these two products and they are both relatively expensive in their own right, scam sites take advantage of this by luring consumers into placing orders through extremely low prices.
The reality is that the real Cison V8 and Teching V8 are very precise, they have very large and complex parts, and the focus on high quality materials and small production runs make it very difficult to sell such products at extremely low prices.
Each one of these products is machined to a high standard to ensure that it runs like a real engine, so if you see a “bargain” price that is far below the official price, be very wary, it's almost certainly a scam.
What to Do If You Are Cheated
1. Immediately try to contact the seller and ask for a refund; if the seller does not respond or shirks his/her responsibility, you should promptly escalate to the shopping platform's customer service or dispute handling system.
2. Initiate a dispute or rejection request through your payment service provider (e.g. PayPal, credit card company, or bank), and provide relevant evidence, including screenshots of the order page, screenshots of the product page, and records of communication with the seller, to increase the likelihood of a successful complaint.
3. You can share your experience on forums or social media, explaining the way and details of the scam you encountered, as a way to help others to be more vigilant, and also to prevent more people from falling for the scam.
About Vortrixe, we currently have only one official website. In order to ensure that you are purchasing a genuine product and can enjoy complete after-sales support, please be sure to place your order through the official channel. We are unable to provide guarantee or after-sales support for orders placed on other websites.
We advise our customers to be vigilant when shopping online, and if you come across any website or product information that can be used during the shopping process, please feel free to contact us for verification.
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