{"id":2025,"date":"2015-07-14T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/?p=2025"},"modified":"2015-07-14T14:47:59","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T14:47:59","slug":"dorset-police-fake-designer-goods-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2015\/07\/14\/dorset-police-fake-designer-goods-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorset Police &#8211; Fake Designer Goods Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People looking for a cheap designer bargain online are being targeted by fraudsters advertising fake designer goods. The items received are usually cheap and inferior counterfeits of handbags, clothes and sunglasses amongst other things.<\/p>\n<p>The general rule is \u2018if it looks too good to be true then it probably is.\u2019 Designer products sold at heavily discounted prices are an immediate sign that something isn\u2019t quite right.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What can you do to protect yourself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where possible, buy from well-known, High Street retailers. If you&#8217;ve never heard of a firm, or it is based overseas, be sceptical.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid paying by cheque or bank transfer.\u00a0 Use PayPal or a credit card as they will give you additional protection.<\/li>\n<li>Search the internet. Type the website you are buying from and look for reviews of what others customers are saying about the company. Bad customer service feedback usually finds their way online quite quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Check for spelling mistakes or poor grammar on websites as this may suggest the website has been put together by a fraudster.<\/li>\n<li>Sign up to Action Fraud Alert at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionfraudalert.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/www.actionfraudalert.co.uk\/<\/a> to keep you updated with what\u2019s going on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you believe that you have been a victim of fraud you can report it online <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud\">http:\/\/www.actionfraud.police.uk\/report_fraud<\/a> or by telephone 0300 123 2040.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People looking for a cheap designer bargain online are being targeted by fraudsters advertising fake designer goods. The items received are usually cheap and inferior counterfeits of handbags, clothes and sunglasses amongst other things. The general rule is \u2018if it looks too good to be true then it probably is.\u2019 Designer products sold at heavily&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/2015\/07\/14\/dorset-police-fake-designer-goods-alert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorset Police &#8211; Fake Designer Goods Alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crimewatch","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/logo.gif?fit=121%2C93&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MmHE-wF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 01:49:54","action":"Draft","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2025\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stourpaine.info\/matters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}