500 Business Identity Theft Reports Land at BBB in One Month

The real Cottage Girls has no website. Just an Instagram account where they post pictures of vintage finds and handmade items. But when customers google "Cottage Girls" now, the first result is eveuro.com with a full shopping cart, credit card checkout, and photos lifted straight from the Instagram posts.

The store owner discovered the imposter site when confused customers started asking about items they'd supposedly ordered online. Eveuro.com had copied the Cottage Girls name, scraped months of Instagram content, and built a fake e-commerce site around someone else's business. Customers were paying real money for items that would never ship.

This identity theft hits small businesses across the country. Over 500 reports landed at the Better Business Bureau in the past month, with business owners and customers both getting scammed. The fake sites don't just steal product photos from major retailers. They clone entire small business identities, down to the name and social media history.

The mechanics are simple but devastating. Scammers find successful local businesses with strong Instagram presences but no dedicated websites. They register domains that sound official, often adding ".com" to names that exist only on social platforms. Then they build convincing storefronts using stolen photos and descriptions.

Some fake sites go further than product theft. YAGOO comfort dentures, operating through multiple domains, sells dental products that arrive with instructions revealing the items are just moldable plastic meant to be shaped at home. Customers pay premium prices expecting professional-grade dental appliances and receive craft supplies instead.

The Federal Trade Commission database shows no specific complaints against individual fake shopping sites because the domains rotate constantly. State corporation records confirm that neither eveuro.com nor the various YAGOO-branded entities maintain registered business addresses or valid contact information beyond their websites.

Stop the Damage Now

Block the charge on your credit card immediately if you paid one of these fake stores. The products either won't arrive or will be nothing like what you ordered. Contact your bank's fraud department and dispute the transaction as an unauthorized charge from a fake merchant.

Check whether a business operates a legitimate website before ordering. If you can only find them on Instagram or Facebook, message directly through social media to verify they're actually selling products online. Many small businesses don't run e-commerce sites at all.