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I've seen a couple online gun stores over the last year or two that are clearly setup to rip people's money off. I didn't see any other threads about this so this may be a good place to list any of them you may have found. I've got some background in vetting these type of fake websites. Please be sure if you list one here that it is truly a scam website.

This started today as an investigation after getting email from glocktalk.com about the message thread that involved
kentuckyglockstore.com and a user here who had apparently been scammed by this website. But when I came here to see the message thread it was gone. I found the user kentuckyglockstore.com on glocktalk has been banned and then found some interesting things when I went to that website. One was an address that does not seem to exist. If you click on 'Contact Us' at the top of the website it lists:
Honor Gun Company
4798 Thunder road
95134 United States

That Zip code is in San Jose, California. That actual street does NOT exist there. It also does not exist in Kentucky. In another area of the website this address is listed :
"15 Outer Loop, Louisville,ky, 40219 United States " which also does not seem to exist according to Google maps.

Then it gets more fun when you click on their Glock 19 Gen 5 review: Unboxing the Glock 19 Gen 5 - KENTUCKY GLOCK STORE. They show a picture which is definitely not a Glock - I think it is a Beretta. And this is a review below the picture which was in Latin. I converted it to English:

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:ROFLMAO:

So what do you think - is this a fake website or not? Anyone in that area who can check it out the physical address?
At least for now avoid sending any money to that place. More info on the way and if you know of other scam gun websites please list them here.
 

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Hi Bren, Yep I noted he had been banned in my post above. I hadn't seen the thread you mentioned about the fake address though. Thanks for confirming. In making a call to their listed store phone I just get a woman's voice saying your being forwarded to voice mail.

uofaengr, The problem is new places will pop up that have no reviews and if they have the lowest price some people will go for that. By posting the bad ones here it will help reinforce Google searches on the bad ones. I've used the website:
Front sometimes to find the lowest price on an item and in one case it turned out to be a scam website. So it should help to have more info here I believe on known bad ones and may even discourage scammers from trying.
 

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Fake.

Even without the bogus address it doesn't take much to see the payment methods and order minimum as an obvious fraud.
I hadn't looked at that yet but yeah I'm sure it's a scam. Here's just another big hint - a picture of a Glock 20 they sell:

Trigger Air gun Gun barrel Gun accessory Airsoft gun


o_O :rolleyes: :LOL::LOL::LOL:
 

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Yes, I have begun more thoroughly searching on an unknown company. However, it's been said, why not just use known, reputable sites? I was searching for ammo deals, and man, be careful with scam sites claiming to have ammo in stock for those prices.

If it seems to good to be true, it's because the far and away vast majority of those times, it is...

With all due respect, why is this thread in General Glocking? I believe the thread has value and merit, but it's not what I expected when scrolling the GG forum.
Sorry about the location. I looked around for a better subforum but didn't see any relevant. I'm not a heavy user here as you can tell by my number of posts in almost 17 years on here... Maybe a mod can move it to a more appropriate subforum?
 

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Somebody here bought primers from them and got scammed and posted a thread about it. It seems to have disappeared, which is a shame since it warned others about the scam.
(y) That's essentially why I decided to start this thread after seeing that one had disappeared.
 

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Here is a few more I found when visiting the real and valid Canikusa.com web site which is warning about these fake sites using the Canik or Century Arms names. I checked out one of them which takes only cryptocurrency or Zello - a big RED flag and appears to ship guns directly to sellers which of course is illegal and another major RED flag. I reported the domain to the site registrar by using ICANN Lookup which shows the registrar of any website and a way to contact abuse at the registrar.
Sites listed on the real Canikusa.com as being fake :
centuryarmsusa.com
ammostoreonline.com
canikgun.com
canikpistols.com
canikarmory.com
centuryfirearmstore.com
 

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Good job. That's too funny what they were begging for. It's like a robber saying please don't call the police on me since this gun I'm robbing people with cost me a lot. Head shaker...
 

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If I'm gun shopping on line I pick a company that I have dealt with before and ordered ammunition, holsters, or anything else and been happy with the purchase. It's just not worth saving a few bucks to me on a "Chance."
I don't really think many people would fall for the fraud sites I listed in the post above but the people making these fraud gun sites just might be anti-gun hackers that are trying to give the gun industry a bad reputation so I wouldn't want to let these frauds get any money from the less informed / newbie buyers.
 

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Well here is another fake one: Shop - Georgia Gun Shop
No phone number, reference to Taurus web page for contact but page does not exist and they only accept Bitcoin, credit card or PayPal (PayPal does not allow purchase of guns) and NO request for an FFL to ship. They appear to have over 240 pages of guns and from the one I was searching it was about $75 less than anywhere else. FAKE!
 
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