We freeze fraud as tamper-proof evidence.
Fake shops disappear just as quickly as they appear – and the evidence vanishes with them. We preserve confirmed fraudulent sites as a tamper-proof snapshot: cryptographically signed, stored immutably and available as an evidence dossier for authorities and victims. Even when the site has long since gone offline.
From suspicion to evidence in four steps
Detect
Our radar checks a site and classifies it – based on hard, documented fraud signals.
Freeze
We preserve confirmed fake shops as a complete snapshot – home page, legal notice, terms, products including all loaded content.
Seal
Every snapshot is cryptographically signed (SHA-256 + signature) and stored in immutable WORM storage.
Keep it provable
This keeps the fraud provable – even when the site has long gone offline or the perpetrator has altered it.
What an evidence dossier contains
Screenshots of the site
Home page, legal notice, terms, privacy policy and sample products as visual evidence.
Preserved site
The frozen website including the content it loaded at the time.
Technical evidence
Hosting/IP, certificate, WHOIS, register comparison – the facts behind the facade.
Network & cluster
Connected fraudulent sites – identified by shared identifiers, servers and identical images.
Checksum & signature
A proof of integrity that lets anyone verify nothing was altered afterwards.
Authority export
A bundled package (PDF + data + evidence) to hand over to police or reporting bodies.
Basic free – full dossier to cover costs
Basic information
- Classification & warning
- Reason for the rating
- Report to our warning list
Full dossier
- Screenshots of the site
- Preserved, frozen website
- Technical evidence & network cluster
- Checksum + signature
- Authority export package
We offer the full dossier only when an actual snapshot with content exists – we never sell an empty page or a mere "not reachable" notice. The price is a starting value and serves to cover costs.
Why it costs money – honestly
Fakeshop AI is not a for-profit service. Checking is and stays free. But tamper-proof freezing – a real browser over a residential IP, storage, signed WORM archival – incurs ongoing costs. The small amount for the full dossier helps us keep the service running and freely accessible to everyone. Nothing more, nothing less.
We document snapshots in a tamper-proof way. Whether and how a dossier is used as evidence is decided by the responsible body or the court – we do not provide legal advice and do not guarantee admissibility in court.
Questions about evidence preservation
What exactly does "tamper-proof" mean here?
We store the snapshot unchanged and add a cryptographic checksum and signature as well as immutable storage (WORM). This makes it possible to prove that the documentation has not been altered since it was captured. Whether evidence is admitted in court is decided by the court alone – that is something we can neither guarantee nor want to.
Why is the full dossier paid?
Crawling, storing and the tamper-proof archival cost us money on an ongoing basis (servers, residential access, storage). We provide the basic data for free; the small amount for the full dossier serves to cover costs, not to make a profit.
Do I still get something even if the site is offline?
That is exactly the point: if we froze the site beforehand, the full dossier shows the preserved state – even when the live site is long gone. We only offer the full dossier when a genuine snapshot with content exists. If there is none, we do not sell an empty shell.
Can authorities obtain the material?
Yes. We provide the evidence dossier including the export package to investigating authorities and official reporting bodies.