Description

A family member received an email from portlandleathersale.com regarding some bags for sale that were 'high brand' for cheap. A purchase was made from the website and a confirmation email was received that had a sending address of no_reply001 which tipped us off. The email was plain text and had a purchase total that was not equal to what was charged to our account (off by a few dollars). Upon searching the internet for the company, another was found with a similar name of Portland Leather Goods that actually appeared in the Sponsored search result, where Portland Leather Sale was not found at all. The certificates from the website showed that it was made only a few weeks prior and GoDaddy WhoIs showed that matching address and phone number as this scam. It was determined that the website was fraudulent and the email was phishing.