Witchery customers have found online deals really were too good to be true.
Samantha Richards couldn’t believe the deals that clothing retailer Witchery was offering online.
But, as it turns out, she shouldn’t have. The site she spent $102 on was in fact a scam, only pretending to be the popular women’s clothing store.
“I have a bad feeling people could easily have spent more than that as the sale offers were amazing,” she said.
Customers are being targeted with fake advertisements on Facebook and Instagram, which then take them to a fraudulent website.
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Richards said she found the website to be extremely professional, and she never once thought it was not an official website.
It was only 10 days later, when she checked the confirmation email to see how long her order would take to arrive, that she saw the return email address was odd.
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Attempting to make contact with Witchery was difficult, she said.
“The Lambton Quay branch never answered the phone and I could only get through to the Wellington Airport branch who gave me the customer service email, so I could contact them.”
“I have had to cancel my bank card because [scammers] now had…
