Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The website www.francescopielli.com (Francesco Pielli) is an untrustworthy eCommerce store claiming to give away free luxury watches and the shoppers pay for shipping only. Online users are advised to stay away from the untrustworthy website, and those who have shopped from it, run the risk of receiving counterfeit goods, poor quality goods that look nothing like what was advertised, or nothing at all. Therefore, we do not recommend purchasing from the Francesco Pielli.
Unsatisfied online users who have shopped on the untrustworthy website are asked to contact their bank or financial institution to have their transactions canceled and money refunded.
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Ordered a watch in early November 2017. Paid $12.99 in shipping. Got nothing, nada, goose-eggs. Numerous emails sent, no response
I ordered one in early Dec for Christmas. Joke on me. Just received it. Complete rubbish, I could not give it to my 6 year old as watch but as toy and a bad one at that. complete scam!
I ordered one and got it a few days ago after about three weeks. The watch looks OK although obviously not high quality, but since I just paid to ship I guess it can't be too much of a rip-off in that regard (not that a company can't make a lot of money overcharging lots of people $5 for a watch). The watch has no branding or brand name of any kind on it, so from that perspective it's obviously not that they're giving away free watches to gain brand exposure as their website states. The bigger issue is that the card I used to order was fraudulently used today and I had to shut it down - and while I can't say I have proof that the two occurrences are linked I did use a credit card that isn't used day-to-day in case it was a scam and so it's odd that there would be fraud on it for the first time after ordering the watch.
Can your website follow-up on purchases?
No. Contact your bank and cancel the transactions and have your money refunded before it it too late.
I made a purchase a month ago, but haven't received a watch.
I made a purchase a month ago and got rubbish...
