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Techinn.com is a literal SCAM LOL how are people still falling for it

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Hi pepelz

Today i have something interesting, so i recently bought a ps5 and yeah it was cool and all got it from ps direct but my friend wanted one SO badly so I decided hey lets find some ps5s online that are in stock

We stumbled acrosss a deeeep af rabbit hole, and let's just say lots of people got scammed

The link I went to was https://www.techinn.com/en/sony-ps5-digital-edition/137769822/ and it's a literal scam, they don't even try to cover it up. It's disgusting how much they profited off of this scam website, and nobody's said anything against them

So, at first glance this seems like a legit website! Then I see it's literally $600 for DIGITAL edition, and that may fool the average Joe, but I'm not the average Joe and will do anything to make these retards that made this website pay for how much they've scammed. So, if we go to the REAL playstation website, we can see this: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/753242388339621893/808418547390218260/unknown.png

Might just be thinking "it's inflation or something, happens all the time with these scalper bots" well it's nothing of the sort, in fact that $200 doesn't even cover shipping! And the fact they're overcharging is insane, other websites obviously overcharge and do double the amount, but it's no excuse.

So, we start with the first bit of evidence being a simple whois search, here's the link: https://who.is/whois/techinn.com

We can see the domain provider (this is suspicious as it is some 2nd hand provider): https://dondominio.com/

You'd think they'd use something like namecheap, wix, godaddy, ect, but no they're a tech company, of course!

We can see this domain was bought off some other place sometime in 2010, this sells the story as it being a tech company, but I have some serious doubts.

It was last updated on 2020-01-10, that could either be october or January, either way I'll asume it was october. This is when they bought the website, and then they uploaded their scam, they did this about a month after sony announced the PS5 (september) and the owner seeing a get rich quick money eyes thing, decided to go ahead on october, and now we have the PS5 releasing in a month (november) for purchase, they put it up for sale and profit? Right?

Well, there are numerous threads saying it's a scam, numerous were deleted but I found one that is still up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5/comments/jup3ls/is_techinn_legit/

And I've got to say, feel bad for this guy yet it's still a bad thing going on, I've gone ahead and reported them to a local anti fraud team near me, they're investigating the site right now but it's unlikely they'll find more than I did.

A corporation known as Soluciones Corporativas IP has claimed to own this site, although it may be likely they are just being used as the previous company to own this site, and may have nothing or everything to do with this.

I've looked into it and it's also hosted by Google Cloud, that's a weird choice considering most people use digitalocean but I won't judge for now, it just adds to suspicion.

I'm also curious as to how they don't even use Cloudflare, a common thing that is being used by lots of people, including this forum!

It's all too suspicious, let me know if you find anything.

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Note all of the identical fake brands at the top of the page

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