Blogging before you exist
A company published three blog posts, then registered its domain eight weeks later. Backdating is one of the strongest tells in the corpus — here is how to check any site’s dates yourself in five minutes.
Look at a scam site’s own dates. On one shipper site in the Wiener-Gate corpus, three blog posts are dated April, May and June. The Terms and Conditions claim a 1 July revision. The domain was registered on 28 July.
The Terms claim to have been revised 27 days before the website existed. The newest blog post predates the domain by eight weeks. There is no innocent explanation for a company blogging three months before it registered its domain — the history was manufactured to make a site registered last month look like a business with a past.
You can run this check yourself: take any published date on the site — blog posts, legal pages, “last updated” stamps — and diff it against the domain’s RDAP creation event. Publication dates falling before domain creation are the tell.