bowthery.com — another ‘suspected’ scam website!
Sadly, like many of these scam website posts, my wife was seemingly scammed by bowthery.com. My wife explains, excuse the vagueness, that she saw a short on YouTube purporting to be a reduced-cost Lane Bryant products. She visited the website, bowthery.com, and found many things she liked, and the total came to just $43 for 54 (fifty-four) items. She asked me if she could make the purchase, and as she said it was from Lane Bryant, I assumed she was on lanebryant.com, so I said yes.
I should have known it was a scam because of the low price. I even commented, “Is Lane Bryant going out of business?” continuing, “These sound like fire sale prices”, still thinking my wife was on lanebryant.com. This morning, my wife quips, “I hope I didn’t get scammed.” Looking at the confirmation email, my heart sank as I just knew she had been scammed. I Googled the Bowthery name, and several scam detector websites appeared near the top of the page, which is usually never a good sign.
I visited bowthery.com from the link in the email confirmation, which looked like a generic template-based e-commerce website. If you simply visit bowthery.com without clicking the post/email link, it gives you a different site from the link in the YouTube Short. Scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking the contact us link revealed a simple sentence: “E-mail Us: contactus@bowthery.com. We are here to help. Your satisfaction is our goal.”; no phone number, no physical address, not even a PO Box. While the about us link states, “bowthery is a professional online fashion clothing boutique. At bowthery.com, we drop a great quantity of new products a week, so you always have the latest looks for less. And they are offered at incredible prices. Everything that do the clothing, the outfits, the shoes is to helping women everywhere feel confident, stylish, and comfortable.” — a literal copy and paste of their website text.
The return policy is highly restrictive. You cannot return anything, as everything is “on-sale,” and on-sale items cannot be returned, according to their policy, although I suspect there will be nothing to return!
The Whois record for bowthery.com reveals that it was registered just a couple of months ago, 2/20/2025, with registrant information redacted for privacy. scam-detector.com claims that the owner is Liang Zhu, based in Guangdong, China, but I cannot confirm this is accurate information.
They have not even taken the payment yet, almost 24 hours later, but everything I have read makes me uncomfortable enough that I will have my wife cancel her card, as they have her card details, full address, full name, and email address. I don’t want to see money disappear from our bank account beyond the $43. I can accept losing that money, but who knows what they will do with that information in the future?
I could be completely wrong, and all the items arrive at my door within the 3—5 days claimed, but all the evidence suggests otherwise. The shipping cost alone would be more than the value of the entire order.