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Fake Adidas sale sites selling unbranded summer clothes at 90% off

Shops at addresses such as saleadidas[.]com and adidas-offers[.]com use the Adidas name and an Adidas-style menu of shoes, clothing and accessories for men, women and kids. The products actually on sale are unbranded women's summer dresses and tops. Every item shown is marked "On sale" at €10,95 to €12,95, next to a crossed-out price above €110, about 90% off. The shops offer a login, a basket and an email sign-up. The same shop code and tracking tags link 14 sites in total, many of them named after other fashion brands.

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What’s different in this version

These traits set this message apart from the usual pattern.

  1. The brand taken is Adidas, but the products shown are unbranded women's dresses, camisoles and tops, not Adidas goods.

  2. There is no Adidas logo on the product pages. The Adidas name appears in the web address and in the copied menu.

  3. The copied menu has spelling mistakes such as "Baskerball", "Glvoes" and "Slip On & Staps".

  4. Every item shown has the same kind of discount, roughly €11 instead of more than €110.

  5. At least four Adidas-named addresses were used between August 4 and August 24, 2026. adidas-offers[.]com was registered one day before it was reported.

  6. Automated checks flagged scripts on these pages that hide their own code, try to block browser developer tools and look up the visitor's internet address.

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How this scam works

  1. 1

    Step 1: A shop appears at an address that carries a familiar retailer's name without being that retailer's website. The name is often placed to the left of the real address, so it reads correctly at a glance.

  2. 2

    Step 2: The page copies the retailer's wordmark, colours and footer closely enough to pass a glance, including a copyright line in the real company's name.

  3. 3

    Step 3: The goods on sale do not match the retailer: a clothing brand's shop offering designer handbags, phones, drones or car parts, with product text scraped from wholesale listings.

  4. 4

    Step 4: The site behaves like a normal shop. It offers accounts, a basket, orders and a customer service chat, which is what makes a shopper willing to type things into it.

  5. 5

    Step 5: Anything entered goes to whoever runs the site rather than to the retailer, because the retailer has nothing to do with it.

✓ Do this

  • Read the web address from the right. The real site is the last part before the first single slash, and a brand name in front of it is just a word somebody chose.
  • Go to the shop the way you normally would, through its own app or by typing its address yourself, and see whether the same offer exists there.
  • If you have already paid, tell your bank or card provider straight away and ask about a chargeback.
  • If you reused a password on the fake shop, change it everywhere else you use it, from a device you trust.

✗ Avoid this

  • Do not judge a shop by whether it looks right, or by a safety checker finding nothing wrong. A copy can be good enough to pass both.
  • Do not assume a padlock or 'https' means a shop is genuine. It only means the connection is private, not that the shop is.
  • Do not enter a card, an address or a password on a shop you reached from a link, before you have checked the address.
  • Do not trust a brand's logo, a copyright line, or a long list of well-known names on the page. All of those are copied in a few minutes.