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How Might I Find Out If A Business Is Genuine? Or A Malware Bot Site.

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dance2trance | 15:55 Wed 12th Sep 2018 | Business & Finance
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A company called Hi Fi Headphones sends me several e-mails per day asking me to buy headphones. I have never heard of them. Clearly a MALWARE site and a BOT doing it. I checked out their web site and as I live nearby (Shoreham by Sea) and called at their given business address but they were not there and it was a totally different company making meat pies. The one photo on its site of staff looks fake.
I asked local Trading Standards and they said 'Not our prob mate', I asked Companies House and they said 'Can't help mate we just log what exists. No interest in fraudulent companies'. Does anyone have a clever idea about finding out if this company actually exists or is as I suspect just a malware bot site phishing for credit card details?
WARNING - If you tackle their web site BE CAREFUL YOU WILL BE BOMBARDED BY BOT MAIL FOREVER. DO NOT APPROACH.
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I have purchased headphones from them in the past, so I know they're a genuine company, and I probably get the same emails you're getting (last one was a newsletter yesterday). However, if you haven't used them, then it's a bit odd they would be sending you emails. According to Companies House, they only moved to Dolphin Way in May this year from Chartwell...
17:07 Wed 12th Sep 2018
if itv was me I would just alter my settings to dump the emails in the junk folder and move on
K&S Technology Ltd
A4 Dolphin Way
Shoreham-By-Sea
West Sussex
BN43 6NZ
United Kingdom
Maybe a forwarding address ?
I have purchased headphones from them in the past, so I know they're a genuine company, and I probably get the same emails you're getting (last one was a newsletter yesterday). However, if you haven't used them, then it's a bit odd they would be sending you emails. According to Companies House, they only moved to Dolphin Way in May this year from Chartwell Business Park, Lancing (you can still see their old place on Google Streetview).
Just block the address or delete the emails.
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Thank you everybody this is most helpful particularly the information about their moving address. Their e-mails refuse to be dumped in spam or junk so I got Apple to advise on this. I will check out K&S technology and the companies house link. Brilliant advice everyone! Thanks so much.
Are you sure you can't just scroll down to the bottom of one of their emails and click 'unsubscribe'?

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