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It pops up as an ad on Facebook and then takes you to the website but the url doesnt look right. So i left that url and looked up the actual website Snugglewarm.com and it looked identical to the other one. They always have a promotion that ends in 24 hours every other day, get 50% off shipping and the 24 hour clock is counting down. You can make the purchase, they send you a confirmation email, and give you a tracking number. Heres where it starts to get a littls fishey. When you go to track your order it shows that its been received but that its in china and has an unknown destination as of now. I let that sit for the first 5 or 6 days until i didnt see any change on thd tracking what so ever. So i emailed the "contact" email and asked why my package was in china; if they could give me a more detailed tracking since it has been sitting as receieved for almost a week. They email back pretty quick, within 48 hours but just tell me they use overseas suppliers and then give me the same tracking number i already have. Well then about 2 days later there is an update to the tracking and it goes from saying its in china to its with SF Express but still has an unknown destination. So with this update i let it go and hopefully the order is actually processing, until today. The tracking updated again, another week later, now it actually shows something of a route and checkpoints it will go through. However every single one of those are different places, airports, and security in china, with no real destination to the US or any US courier. So i decided to have my AI Gemini do a deep search on the company and all the contact information i had and here is what it concluded. The company name is more than likely and "off-the-shelf" shell company and that the name MG Infotech LLC implies that they would sell technology items, not retail. The phone number used is a non-fixed Voice over IP number, basically an untraceable internet-routed burner; the area code (424) is a legitimate overlay of the 310 area code intentionally selected to align with the 90212 zip code. The domain (Snugglewarm.com) is no where to be found on the WHOIS domain lookup database, which is a public record database that has all registered domains due to the regulations from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It also is a "passing off" scheme that is "piggybacking" off a legitimate trademarked brand, which is a heating blanket made only for medical use as a medical device in hospitals called Snuggle Warm and only medical distributors provide these blankets. The domain also has zero digital footprint, concluding it is more than likely extremely new and/or the operators have purchased a "domain privacy" service. Lastly the address given, 9720 Wilshire Boulevard, 1, Beverly Hills, California, 90212, is a multi-tenant, transient "virtual office" with multiple unknown entities associated with it. So as of today i have filed reports with the Federal Trade Commision, FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and now the BBB. If you ever see a "snuggle warm" blanket and its not directly associated with medicine in some way its more than likely a scam