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Managing Partner @ The Conversion Wizards (Ex-Microsoft)

Another worrying trend in ecommerce: Scammers copying your site, logo, collateral, then selling cheap knockoffs... —- Copycats are stepping up their attacks on small businesses. Sellers of products including merino socks and hummingbird feeders say they have lost customers to online scammers who use the legitimate business owners’ videos, logos and social-media posts to assume their identities and steer customers to cheap knockoffs or simply take their money. “We used to think you’d be targeted because you have a brand everywhere,” said Alastair Gray, director of anticounterfeiting for the International Trademark Association, a nonprofit that represents brand owners. “It now seems with the ease at which these criminals can replicate websites, they can cut and paste everything.” Technology has expanded the reach of even the smallest businesses, making it easy to court customers across the globe. But evolving technology has also boosted opportunities for copycats; ChatGPT and other advances in artificial intelligence make it easier to avoid language or spelling errors, often a signal of fraud. Link to full story below. —- Use tools like copyscape to periodically check if your product descriptions and website copy appear elsewhere. #ecommerce #fraud #scammers #chatgpt #ai

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