Warning: dubious online shop “kult-o-rama”

Cheap and quick gift ideas are very popular, especially before Christmas, and the Internet is the last hope for many people looking for them. But unfortunately this hope sometimes turns out to be a trap: fake shops require payment in advance, but never deliver!

The website consumer protection.de currently strongly advises against ordering from “kult-o-rama.de” and paying in advance. We looked at this webshop and discovered several discrepancies.

NO imprint

Caution! Actually, that should be enough for a warning: this webshop does not have an imprint. In addition to the operator of the website and address, business people are obliged to name the company's representative, a contact in the legal notice and the supervisory authority as mandatory information in the legal notice. In addition, the register entry, for freelancers with a registry office, and the sales tax ID. None of this can be found at “kult-o-rama.de”.

Credit card payment in advance only

For example, it is generally only possible to pay for the single item by credit card. Payment via alternative payment portals such as PayPal is not offered. Here you also run the risk of your credit card data being used or passed on without authorization.

Not a secure connection

The entire ordering process is completely unencrypted. You can see this quite easily if you look in the browser's address bar, as there is no indication of an https-secured connection. Here you can generally remember for other online shops: you should not carry out an order process without a secure connection.

Whois information

Information about the owner data of the domain shows an interesting result: the address displayed does not exist!

(Screenshot: denic )

Various users are now warning and informing: you pay and then never hear anything again. Even if you exercise your right of withdrawal for online purchases, there is no response and there is no return transfer.

Tips from “ Auktionshilfe.info ”

The users of the forum “Auktionshilfe.info” have recently become aware of the fake shop, as well as the pages related to this fake shop. Here you can also find a clear to-do list in case of an emergency:

1.) Save the information about the relevant fake shop and this warning and print it out.

2.) If you haven't paid yet, don't do so.
So you don't need to withdraw from the purchase in any way, nor are you obliged to pay into a fraudster's account. Do not attempt to contact the perpetrator by email. Don't respond to the perpetrator's emails either, just pretend to be dead to him. The shop will disappear at some point in the near future

3.) If you only transferred in the last 24 hours , there may still be some (money) to be saved .
Even if the money was debited from you immediately, it is only really gone once it has been credited to the recipient.
There can be up to 24 hours in between during which your bank may be able to stop this. Therefore, you should rush to your bank immediately and ask them to do everything they can to stop the transfer BEFORE it is credited to the recipient. Literally every second counts now!! Your bank should definitely call the recipient bank immediately and also send a FAX there. Don't let yourself be put off, insist that your bank at least tries!
Emphasize that you are not talking about a chargeback or something similar, but about a cancellation of a payment that has not yet been valued , that is a difference.
A chargeback is absolutely impossible, a cancellation before the value date works in about every 3rd to 4th case. 4.) Report it to the police.

You can find tips and information on this under this link: archive.today/eJ60v
Be sure to print out all posts about these fake shops, including all previously known bank accounts of this perpetrator, and add them to your ad. The police will then recognize more quickly that this is not an isolated case, but rather a series of frauds.