The scheme
One address shows Google your shop and your customers a different one
A mirrored copy tells apart who is requesting it. Search engines and the reviews of ad networks are shown your real shop: the same shop ID, the same products, texts and photos, and your legal notice (Impressum) with company name and address. A person in a browser gets someone else's shop with its own name and bait prices.
[your-shop].com
[your-sh0p].net
Pattern: zero instead of o, .net instead of .com, hard to tell apart in many fonts
Reviews are shown the original, buyers a different shop
That way the site passes every check with your name and harms you, even without a single sale. The copy can show up with your content in search, in ads and in AI assistants, and compete for your own search terms.
What Google and ad reviews see
Your shop
- your entire range with your texts and photos
- your legal notice with company name, address and contact details
- no reason to reject or downgrade the site
What your customers see
Someone else's shop
- a different name at almost the same address
- your products at bait prices, paid for through a card form
- nothing that points to you
Why you cannot find a copy like this yourself
If you open the address in a browser, you see someone else's shop and take it for just another merchant. The site only shows search engines and ad reviews that your own shop lies underneath. AntiClone records both views, compares them with your shop and secures them as evidence. If the goods never arrive, the customer blames the name that Google displayed, which means you.
How a case runs in AntiClone, from the finding to offline
With any plan from Basis up, every confirmed case goes through this process. How fast a site disappears is decided by hosting providers, registrars and payment providers, and nobody can promise that.
FindingClone Radar
The radar sees the new website and recognizes your shop underneath
The same shop ID, the same products, texts and photos. You get a message with a priority score, and the site appears in the app with all the evidence.
Evidenceautomatic
AntiClone secures both views
What Google sees and what customers see, plus the page source, server responses, hosting provider and registrar, all with a timestamp and checksum. You get the PDF report once AntiClone has reviewed your confirmed case.
One clickyou
You confirm the copy
One click in the app. Before that, you have granted the authorization once, so that AntiClone may write in the name of your company.
ReportsAntiClone
AntiClone checks the case and reports it to the hosting provider and registrar
In the name of your company, with the check report attached and a deadline for the reply. You get a copy of every report, and replies go directly to you.
After the deadlineif needed
If the site is still online, the payment providers follow
The deadline is stated in every report: 4 days unless you set something else. Without payment providers the copy can no longer take money. Forms with a captcha, such as those at Google, are ready and waiting for you.
Offline90 days of checks
AntiClone checks every 30 minutes whether the site can still be reached
It only counts as offline when two checks at least one hour apart confirm it. Then you are told. If the site comes back, you are told as well.
What a copy like this costs you
A site like this does not have to sell much to do harm. It costs you visibility and trust at the same time.
In search
With your texts and photos, the copy competes on Google for the same search terms and can take places that would otherwise belong to your shop.
In ads
The ad review sees a reputable shop with a real legal notice. That way ads for the copy can get through and appear where you find your customers.
In AI assistants
AI shopping assistants recommend shops they consider a good fit. The more copies there are, the more often they can recommend the wrong address.
With the customer
Anyone who orders from the copy and gets nothing blames the name that Google displayed. For you that means questions, complaints and bad reviews.