Middle-class shoppers fall for online scam by fraudsters masquerading as Cornish fashion firm Seasalt - even though they spell the county's name 'Cornwoll'

Middle class shoppers are falling for an online scam by fraudsters masquerading as Cornish fashion company Seasalt - despite the fake site spelling the county's name 'Cornwoll'. The site contained a number of pop-ups counting down to the sale being over to push customers to buy The original post on Facebook claims Seasalt is struggling and wants to sell off old items as cheaply as possible One of the sale offers promised six items for just £42, pictured above The fake site promises jumpers for as little as £12, while dresses are as low as £10 and jewellery is on offer for just a couple of pounds. One said they saw the post on Facebook and noticed the website address used a hyphen between seasalt and Cornwall while the genuine site doesn't. When I looked at the order confirmation it said seasalts not seasalt for the company name' The scam One said they saw the post on Facebook and noticed the website address used a hyphen between Seasalt and Cornwall whilst the genuine site doesn't 'My suspicions were raised when it said closing down sale, yet they had new stock on the website,' said another Mumsnetter Others lamented Facebook's slow response time in taking down ads for the scam pages Yesterday Seasalt said it was working with Facebook owner Meta to sort the issue out Another said they had seen similar scams for womenswear brands Lucy & Yak, Joules, Boden, Cath Kidston and Jigsaw One user spoke about being duped by a similar fraudulent website pretending to be British homeware and clothing brand Cath Kidston Another said they had seen similar scams for womenswear brands Lucy & Yak, Joules, Boden, Cath Kidston and Jigsaw.