Yeaun (Yeaun.com) is the latest trending scam starting to pick up traction within the online retail industry.
Likely affiliated with the ZodBuy and Kmkai scam that we have been exposing over the past week and a half, Yeaun reflects similar aesthetics to both verified scams and fits the mold of a fake online retailer that cannot be trusted.
To learn more regarding what we are coining to be the Yeaun scam we invite you to read our honest, unbiased review disclosed below.
About Yeaun
Yeaun appears to be an online marketplace that supports an ample selection of baby shoes.
Reflecting a minimalistic site template, Yeaun allegedly supports up to 135 pairs of baby shoes while offering a wide range of their inventory at what many would consider to be competitive price points.
Among one of the characteristics that makes Yeaun.com such a dangerous retail scam would be how their site fails to arouse much suspicion amongst unsuspecting consumers.
Unlike many fraudulent online retailers that employ similar scam tactics, Yeaun does not try to bait consumers by pretending to offer huge online savings or ridiculous online sales that are clearly too good to be true.
Instead, Yeaun takes a more conservative approach (like ZodBuy and Kmkai) to scamming by simply setting up what appears to be a genuine retailer that offers competitive price points.
As a whole, however, Yeaun is NOT a legitimate retailer.
Who is Behind Yeaun?
Yeaun claims to be a, “a professional and reliable online shopping center..” yet they fail to disclose any verifiable ownership or corporate information.
Apart from an anonymous contact submission form featured on their Contact page, Yeaun only discloses the following identifying information:
Karley Adney
3717 Brunswick Drive
Carmel, IN 46033
United States
When cross-referencing ‘Karley Adney’ with Yeaun across social networks and search engines we were unable to verify the legitimacy of Karley Adney (the same instances happened with both ZodBuy.com and Kmkai.com).
The only other form of contact we are provided would be the email address karleyadneyok@gmail.com.
To add, Yeaun’s Privacy & Security and Terms of Use pages imply that Yeaun.com is operating on its own accord while no shred of identifying information can be found.
Shipping & Refunds
Unlike with ZodBuy and Kmkai, which reflected identical shipping and return policies, Yeaun appears to reflect a variation of those policies.
Whether the con-artists behind this growing network of scams have caught wind of our reviews and made alternations we are not entirely sure.
While the format of these policies may be mixed around, when further investigated you can still connect many similarities and quickly deduce that the policy pages of Yeaun were taken from the same template used for both ZodBuy and Kmkai.
Domain Insight
Yeaun.com was privately registered on March 29th, 2019 through the GoDaddy, LLC registrar.
According to SimiliarWeb, Yeaun.com does not reflect any web rankings according to their market intelligence report.
This could partially be due to the fact that Yeaun is a recently incepted domain, therefore the site has not had much time to accrue much organic traffic.
As with the ZodBuy and Kmkai scams we exposed, Yeaun appears to be relying heavily upon Facebook advertisement campaigns to solicit and bait consumers into their retail trap.
Yeaun Red Flags
Lack of Transparency
Yeaun does not provide verifiable ownership or identifying information.
No mention of a corporate entity can be found while the legitimacy of the entity known as Karley Adney is a total mystery.
More likely than not, ‘Karley Adney’ is nothing more than a figment of some demented scammers imagination used as a scapegoat to relay liability.
Affiliation with Known Scams
Yeaun.com is structured and organized with a similar site template of the ZodBuy scam and Kmkai scam that we exposed recently.
Not to mention that considerable portions of their policy pages are derived from both scam sites.
1 Year Domain Registration
Many phony online retailers will reduce their overhead costs by only registering their sites for a duration of 1 year.
Whereas, most legitimate online retailers that plan to stick around for years to come, will pay more upfront for 2, 5 or 10 year domain registrations to reduce their long-term overhead costs.
Clearly, Yeaun.com does not plan to stick around for long.
Anonymous Contact Methods
Yeaun fails to disclose any identifying forms of contact.
Sure they disclose an address but you search that address in Google Maps you may notice how the address yields a residential address.
A residential address that we were unable to verify in affiliation with Karley Adney or Yeaun.com.
No telephone number, corporate entity or verifiable forms of contact can be found at Yeaun.com, just how the scammers want it.
Is Yeaun.com a Scam
Yes, Yeaun.com is a scam.
Yeaun Scam Review
The creators behind the Kmkai and ZodBuy scams thought that they would only need to make a few minor alternations to their scam sites to negate suspicions.
However, it is clear that Yeaun is nothing more than another link in the chain of this scam networks growing list of retail scams.
Why trust your hard-earned money with an online retailer that fails to provide verifiable ownership information or the bare-bone minimum in regards to contact methods?
Clearly, Yeaun is NOT a trustworthy online retailer and should be avoided at all costs!
Best Retail Alternative: Amazon.com
Outcome: Yeaun is a SCAM!
Blacklisted Site: Yeaun.com
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Update. Since I escalated my claim against Yeaun.com to PayPal, their investigation has concluded, and it went in my favor for a full refund. PayPal was unable to obtain further information from yeaun.com, and the case was closed.
Do not let these fraudsters take your money. The sooner you file a complaint, the faster a resolve in your favor will happen! Good luck, and be relentless!
Oh yeah, I definitely see a pattern here. My purchase was for $69.97!
Just to follow up. After putting in a claim for “not receiving my item” PayPal refunded my money.
I’m yet another victim to this fraudulent webstore. Did a search for a Cordoba 1 2 size Coco acoustic guitar on Google, and found yeaun.com listed this item for $20 dollars less than the next best offer on another site. I felt it was legit since they accepted PayPal. Boy, was I ever so wrong! The very low price should’ve been a red flag, and the fact a telephone number isn’t listed. All I got after the purchase was a confirmation from PayPal, and never one from yeaun.com. The PayPal confirmation didn’t list Yeaun, rather a Jennifer Davies as a seller, and my item was listed as numbers and letters in no recognizable way.
Never got responses from the email provided from PayPal, and no response through their claim portal. I have since escalated my claim, and awaiting PayPal’s decision. Stay tuned
SCAMMERS,TRACKING NUMBER IS PICKED UP BY SOMEONE IN ANOTHER CITY,PAYPAL CLAIM FILED AND STILL WAITING,WILL NOT REPLY TO EMAILS
SCAM! On 6-16-2019
They are now on EBAY . My husband was buying a torch kit for $69.97. He caught it right after the cart and it went thru already from PAYPAL. He contacted EBAY 4 days ago. Same date as the so called purchased and never herd from them. He is now contacting EBAY again to try to dispute it. I think he is out of luck trying,but worth a try.
Yeaun.com is a SCAM. REPORT THAT SH*T.
Payed 69.97 with PayPal for a kayak. Received a transaction no. From PayPal but no order has come. PayPal said product protection. They tell me no refund contact the seller that is a bullshit company. I think PayPal is as much bullshit as this fraud. Deleted PayPal, back to my cards.
I have since called paypal 3 times and put in a dispute after claiming over and over that this is a fraudulent site. We will see how it plays out and I will keep you posted!
How to I refund back from yeaun.com. ?
I just ordered something from yeaun.com and from the get go it doesn’t seem legit. I called paypal immediately but they said the payment was sent. That being said, I need to wait 5-7 business days to even be able to file a complaint! I did get a reference number from my paypal call. So upset and concerned I won’t even get my paypal refund back.
Zodbuy.com is a spoof retail site in the hopes that the buyer will forfeit payment within 30 days of disputing the charge to Paypal. Unfortunately the scam works if the buyer fails to dispute in the correct or timely manner. Kind of like a bad drug deal. Chinese Crooks!