Difference between NRS and NRS Outdoor Safety?

tketcham

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• Monday at 2:53 PM

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I was going to order a pair of NRS Boundary Socks and instead of ending up at NRS.com I ended up at NRSOutdoorSafety.com

What's the difference? Or is NRS Outdoor Safety a scam site? If not, why the two sites?

 

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• Monday at 3:40 PM

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Looks like a scam, or at best a reseller. The nrsoutdoorsafety.com domain name is registered in China and has been around less than a year. The nrs.com domain is registered in California since 1995.

 

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• Monday at 3:55 PM

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Thanks. I've placed a fair number of orders with NRS so this new web site caught me by surprise. Glad I caught it though.

 

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• Yesterday at 8:59 AM

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Looks like NRS doesn't it. Not sure I would have caught it.

 

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I was just doing some window shopping at NRS and came across this page:

How To Detect a Fraudulent NRS Website or eCommerce Store

Learn to identify counterfeit and fraudulent NRS websites and ads, resolve disputes with credit card companies, and protect yourself from scammers posing as NRS dealers.

www.nrs.com

It must be a significant problem if they are posting public warning pages.

 

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• Today at 7:13 PM

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eckilson said:

Looks like NRS doesn't it. Not sure I would have caught it.

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They mimic NRS's website very, very well. At first I thought it was some kind of alternative online store for water sport/safety professionals. Something similar to what Filson offers for foresters, loggers, ranchers, etc. Darn artificial intelligence is going to ruin web retailing if this is how convincingly they can spoof websites.

I just submitted a fraud alert with the FTC. Hopefully they're still funded.

 

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I'm running into the same kind of thing with bicycle accessory companies. First hint is the too-good-to-be-true prices.

 

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tketcham said:

They mimic NRS's website very, very well.

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Yep. They even cut & pasted the "about" write-up where they talk about their Moscow, Idaho headquarters. (they did, however, remove the phone number from the "contact us" section).