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Your customers searched for you. A scammer paid to get there first

Fraud Studio monitors and disrupts fake websites impersonating your brand through paid search.

We autonomously scan Google, Bing, and Yahoo ads for copycat sites designed to scam customers, steal credentials, or sell counterfeits. When we find one, we flag it, block it and take it down.

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The problem

Fraudsters are using the trust you've built against you.

They’re buying ads against your brand keywords, and sending customers to websites designed to look like yours. Those sites are used to:

  • Steal usernames and passwords

  • Sell counterfeit products

  • Scam customers out of money

  • Damage trust in your brand

    • The solution

    We find the impersonators. Then we take action.

    When we identify a fraudulent site, we:

    • Detect: 24/7 monitoring of ad auctions, new domain registrations, and lookalike SSL certs.
    • Dismantle: automatic takedowns filed to hosts, registrars and blocklists
    • Devalue: poisoning the stolen data

    We make fraud expensive to run.

    Talk to us about what you’re seeing

    For security and fraud teams

    Built for the operational side of fraud prevention.

    What we run:

    • Paid-search monitoring
    • Pattern-based scoring
    • Abuse reports
    • Blocklist submissions
    • Data poisoning
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    How it works

    A process that gets sharper the more you tell us.

    • They’re targeting you.

    • We make it expensive.

    • They move on.

    Is fraud studio a fit?

    Fraud Studio is the solution to active impersonation.

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    Customers are buying fakes with your name on them

    Counterfeits, scam checkouts, orders that never ship.

    Someone is cloning your login page

    Lookalike sites built to harvest credentials.

    You take one down and another appears

    Fraud rings operate new domains on a regular basis.

    E-commerce
    brands

    Customer
    logins

    repeat
    offenders

    The nitty gritty

    Focused on paid-search impersonation.

    TLDR; Meta ads are too highly targeted to reliably surface, so our monitoring is focused on search-ad channels.

    We monitor:

    Google ads

    Bing ads

    Yahoo ads

    We don’t currently monitor:

    Facebook or Instagram ads

    Organic search

    Social media

    Phishing disruption

    For phishing sites, we can go beyond takedown requests.

    When appropriate, we can coordinate with your internal team to create controlled canary or decoy credentials and submit them through the fraudulent site.

    The goal is to slow the attacker down or overwhelm the operation while other disruption efforts are underway.

    Make yourself a hard target.

    Fake sites are targeting your customers right now. We find them, take them down, and make what they steal worthless.

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    Faq's

  • When we identify a fraudulent site impersonating your brand, we investigate and collect evidence, then report it to the hosting provider and domain registrar. In parallel, we submit it to Google Safe Browsing, Microsoft SmartScreen, and Netcraft so browsers can warn visitors before a full takedown completes. Pursuing multiple channels at once shortens the time the site can operate.

  • Paid-search brand impersonation is when a scammer buys search ads on your brand name and sends the clicks to a fake site built to look like yours. Those sites steal logins, sell counterfeits, or take customers’ money. Fraud Studio monitors Google, Bing, and Yahoo ads for these copycats and works to get them flagged, blocked, and taken down.

  • Yes. Fraud Studio monitors Facebook and Instagram ads alongside Google, Bing, and Yahoo. When we find an ad sending people to a fake version of your site, we work to get it flagged, blocked, and taken down.

  • A full takedown can take time, since it depends on hosting providers and registrars acting on abuse reports. While that’s in progress, a Google Safe Browsing listing can still protect customers: anyone clicking the ad sees a red “deceptive site” warning before reaching the fake page. It’s one of several disruption paths running at once, not a replacement for takedown.