Clone patrol for car dealers. We find the fake lots selling YOUR cars - and we take them down.
The Federal Trade Commission warned car buyers that scammers are cloning real dealership websites - copying the lot's name, listings and photos "down to the last detail," sometimes with AI - and collecting wire deposits for cars the real dealer never sold.
It is already costing real people real money: a couple wired $45,000 for a Lexus listed under a cloned dealer's name. A North Carolina buyer sent $77,300. A Texas clone took $36,240. One Indiana dealer told law enforcement that buyers lost $70,000+ to a site impersonating his lot. Investigators found clusters of about 30 fake dealer sites running off a single overseas server. The victims don't blame the scammer they can't find - they blame YOUR lot, in person, furious.
The day you sign up, we record your whole lot: every VIN, every stock number, and a tamper-proof hash of every inventory photo. That fingerprint is what a clone can never fake its way past.
Day and night, the patrol sweeps the web, public marketplaces and new domain registrations for your VINs, your photos and your name - and scores every hit. Your own listings and your syndication feeds are recognized and left alone.
Every confirmed clone gets a full evidence packet and a filing set - host, registrar, Google Safe Browsing, a DMCA notice for your photos, the marketplace trust team - filed under the authorization you sign at signup. Respawns get caught and re-filed.
Full copies of your lot on lookalike domains, built to harvest wire deposits.
Your cars listed under your name by a seller who isn't you - the $45,000 Lexus pattern.
Your inventory photos re-hosted anywhere: matched by content hash, not by filename.
One-letter-off versions of your web address, registered and watched before they go live.
Pages wearing your name and your cars, DM-ing your customers for deposits.
Clones that come back under a new name after a takedown - matched on VINs and photos, re-filed.
Every protected lot gets this badge for its real website, linking to a public verification page that confirms the lot's real domain and phone number - the two things a buyer can check in ten seconds before wiring a deposit. A clone can copy your cars, your photos, even your name. It cannot copy its way into the registry. The badge protects your buyers, and it tells every other dealer who sees it exactly who keeps your lot clean.
The host, the registrar, the marketplace, or Google - they make the final call on every removal, and we don't pretend otherwise. What we control is the case they receive: matched VINs, photo hashes, registration records and timestamps, filed fast and tracked to an answer. Weak reports get ignored; evidence packets get acted on.
No. Filings go out only under the authorization you sign at signup - the same letter-of-authorization setup every legitimate brand-protection firm uses. No signed authorization, no filings. You can revoke it any time.
Some channels are partly walled off - Facebook Marketplace is the big one. We sweep public and indexed listings, the open web, the marketplaces we can reach, social pages, and new domain registrations. Anyone who promises you 100% coverage of the whole internet is selling you a story.
It depends on who holds the clone. Cooperative hosts and marketplaces often act in days; stubborn offshore hosts can take longer and sometimes need escalation. We track every filing, escalate on schedule, and watch for the clone respawning under a new address.
Two things: your inventory (the feed your website already runs on, or your site address) and the signed authorization at signup. After that, your job is reading one short report a week.
No. LotGuard 365 is a document-preparation and process service: we assemble evidence and file reports and notices as your authorized agent, including DMCA notices for photos you own. For lawsuits and legal advice, you want an attorney - we'll hand them a packet worth having.
Honesty box: every number in the demo patrol above comes from a real run of the LotGuard 365 engine over a clearly labelled SAMPLE dealer (a fictional Michigan lot, 12 invented vehicles, planted clone pages) - the results are baked from that run, not typed in. Your own listings and your authorized syndication channels score clean in the same run; a real Ohio dealer with a similar name scores clean too. Takedown filings in the demo are DRY-RUN drafts - nothing was filed or sent. The FTC figures in the warning box are from the FTC's September 1, 2026 consumer alert and contemporaneous reporting on real cases. Checkout is live: the plan buttons above open real Stripe checkout for RMH Marketing and Consulting LLC.
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