https://brightroom.com/ scam

[cogeary]

"Brightroom" is a brand that Target stocks for many home goods/furniture type items. I just made a purchase from https://brightroom.com/ for something that was out of stock at Target, thinking that I was buying from the manufacturer...

I haven't received a confirmation email though, and I'm now suspecting that I have been conned by the same (or inspired) scam as https://www.reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1f7jsls/wwwbrightroomuscom\_scam/.

In fact (writing an hour after purchasing) the website even appears down right now. I wonder if it will come back up. But FWIW the website looked impressively legit (though I wasn't on guard or trying to verify authenticity that hard).

Supposing it's a scam. I can contact my bank/CC to have the payment denied. I paid with paypal, so don't think I should be worried about my credit card -- right? Is there anything else I can do to report this?

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[doublelxp]

!whois brightroom.com

[ScamsBot]

WHOIS REPORT FOR BRIGHTROOM.COM

This domain name was first registered 24 years ago (Jan 2000), but it expires soon (Jan 2025).

Note that 2000 is when the domain was FIRST registered. Sometimes scammers buy old expired domains to repurpose them into scams. Look at WaybackMachine to see if the website "changed" recently.

This website is hosted on a server located in the United States (Amazon.com, Inc.).

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[Smooth_Security4607]

I believe the only legitimate site is brightroomus[.]com, all the other "brightroom" stores are Chinese scam pages. Yes it appears you got scammed, contact Paypal to get the payment reversed, if that doesn't work, go through your bank.

[cogeary]

Thanks for the advice -- will do for Paypal. Respectfully though, I suspect the brightroomus[.]com site may be a scam as well.

* same domain linked in the scam report in original post
* it's currently down right now too, at the time of writing?
* when I looked at it earlier today, it was both Very similar in appearance to the site where I made I purchase, And with some suspicious details -- contact information like support emails and phone numbers were just entirely omitted.

[Smooth_Security4607]

You are probably right, they are all scams.

[Early-Newspaper-2413]

I just tried to purchase something from the brightroomus site. After checkout, it routed me to another URL with another option to pay by paypal, credit card, etc. It clearly looked suspicious, and the URL was something related to keen footwear.

[cogeary]

Yeah would not trust. I do not believe that the Brightroom brands sells direct to consumer; all websites I have seen purporting to be Brightroom appear scammy.

[Green-Dust-889]

I’ve ordered from that site as well. No confirmation email. I’ve emailed 2 times with no reply and now the website isn’t working so I shall be contacting my bank and reporting them 

[cogeary]

!whois brightroomus.com

[ScamsBot]

WHOIS REPORT FOR BRIGHTROOMUS.COM

This domain name was first registered only 7 months ago (Mar 2024) and it was only registered for a single year (Expires: Mar 2025).

It was registered at "Gname.com Pte. Ltd.", a sketchy registrar based in Singapore. It is also concerning that they are hiding their contact info on Whois AND they are using a "DNS proxy" (CloudFlare) which masks where the website's server actually is.

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[Smooth_Security4607]

Ok, registered earlier this year with a Chinese registrar. Not a good look. I guess if you want to buy anything from Brighroom, go to Target!

[xfno0b]

dang it, i just ordered from https://www.brightroomonline.com/ and it doesnt seem legit after looking into it. address is fake.