Starting your day to sit down with a smile your face. The time is finally up for you to buy yourself a new digital camera. Through some google ads you simply stumble upon a camera store named justcam4you. Suddenly the camera of your dreams is on sale. 30% cheaper than your local store and guess what?!? It has free delivery.

Now is the right time to give things a second thought. Who would bother to actually sell a camera for a Import price, and stay broke by the end of the month? When things seem too good to be true, they usually are. First thing you stumble upon during check out after a order is that they take credit cards from US and UK only. The rest of the world has to pay by wire transfer. Receiving money through wire transfers is what fraudulent operators usually prefer to do.

Visa users usually have the ability to get their money back through a fraud policy. Wire transfers makes the situations a whole lot more difficult. So a good idea would definitely be to check out basic background information, reviews and read about experiences from past clients.

Sadly google has become a paradise for scams and internet frauds. This famous search engine is unfortunately not acting like a directory listing for serious companies, but rather lists companies with larger popularity. Such experiences can become a expensive lesson learned for some people.

My story

The money was finally transferred to the company, and the client is politely told to allow 5 business days to allow the transaction to go through. A few days later a kind sales representative dropped a mail saying that the order is being processed. Terrible as it sounds, this was not the case at all .

Some tips for you to consider when buying online

You can never know for 100% sure if a online purchase will reach your home or not, but there are some guidelines to follow

1. Make sure that the online payment process is done by credit cards and not debit. Debit cards does not have the same protection as credit cards when it comes to fraudulent situations.
2. Make sure that the payment system has a https:// instead of the regular http://. A https url indicates that you are connected to a secure server. A padlock at the bottom of your browser window is also a sign of being connected to a secure web area. ,
3. Read carefully through their terms and policies. It's usually stated there if your personal information will be shared with other businesses or not. If you are not comfortable with their policy change online store.
   
4. Look through your bank statements during transaction times to rule out possible fraudulent/unwanted transactions.
   
5. Make sure you are able to pay with a credit card as wire transfers gives out much more sensitive information to the company than a credit card does.
   
6. Check up the company before ordering and go for authorized serious companies that have good reviews, SSL credit card payment, and are commercially known.
   
7. With credit card payment there is a policy that will not hold you responsible for a fraud, hence give you the chance to have your money returned based on the card issuers policy.

Signs of justcam4 you being a fraud

1) The many listed domain names in the same company:

• www.justcam4you.co.uk
• www.justcam4you.com
• www.justcam4you.net
• www.justcam4-you.co.uk
• www.justcam4-you.com
• www.justcam4-you.net
• www.just-cam4you.net
• www.just-cam4you.co.uk
• www.just-cam4you.com
• www.justlaptop4you.co.uk
• www.justlaptop4you.com
• www.justlaptop4you.net
• www.justlaptop4-you.co.uk
• www.justlaptop4-you.com
• www.justlaptop4-you.net
• www.just-laptop4you.net
• www.just-laptop4you.co.uk
• www.just-laptop4you.co
  

2) Several servers for the same scam

PING www.justcam4you.com (59.125.229.74) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 59-125-229-74.HINET-IP.hinet.net (59.125.229.74): icmp_seq=1 ttl=42 time=192 ms
64 bytes from 59-125-229-74.HINET-IP.hinet.net (59.125.229.74): icmp_seq=2 ttl=42 time=192 ms
64 bytes from 59-125-229-74.HINET-IP.hinet.net (59.125.229.74): icmp_seq=3 ttl=42 time=191 ms
64 bytes from 59-125-229-74.HINET-IP.hinet.net (59.125.229.74): icmp_seq=4 ttl=42 time=192 ms
64 bytes from 59-125-229-74.HINET-IP.hinet.net (59.125.229.74): icmp_seq=5 ttl=42 time=192 ms

www.just-cam4you.com seems to be a CNAME for p6p.geo.vip.ac4.yahoo.com

PING p6p.geo.vip.ac4.yahoo.com (98.136.92.79) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from p6p.geo.vip.ac4.yahoo.com (98.136.92.79): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=59.4 ms
64 bytes from p6p.geo.vip.ac4.yahoo.com (98.136.92.79): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=53.9 ms
64 bytes from p6p.geo.vip.ac4.yahoo.com (98.136.92.79): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=50.0 ms
64 bytes from p6p.geo.vip.ac4.yahoo.com (98.136.92.79): icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=48.5 ms
64 bytes from p6p.geo.vip.ac4.yahoo.com (98.136.92.79): icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=55.3 ms

3) False sense of SSL protection

Another giveaway is the layout on the front page. They’re using multiple images of SSL protection. Comode, Thawty, and StartCom.

4) Business IP address stemming from Costa rica.

Conclusion

The dream of a new camera quickly became a nightmare.

This company is not serious and I hope a experience like this can bring out the message that you should never trust suspicious stores. And after such evidence about justcam4you I here by draw this conclusion. Stay away!