Here's another reader e-mail requesting an investigation:

Please investigate this website. I don't think this website is reliable source. I returned the items back to them since March 1 and trying to get contact with them for the return money but could never get a hold of them except for empty promises. Is there any way I could get my money back. I still have all the emails between them and me for proof. info@tiffanyjewelry925.com

Thuong

We're afraid we didn't have to do much digging this time around, since Tiffany knock-offs are a major cottage industry on the Internet, from sellers on eBay to fake sites like this one. We published an investigation of online auction fraud earlier this year, which you can read here.

Unfortunately, as we wrote Thuong, we know Tiffanyjewelry925.com is a fraudulent site since there's only one authorized Tiffany site: www.tiffany.com. Tiffanyjewelry925.com is an obvious impostor that's been shut down, since all we got was "Address Not Found" when we tried to visit the site.

When we used WHOIS to see who's behind this site, we learned it's registered to a "La Tondra Moultrie" in Turku, Finland. We also learned that Tiffany & Co. brought a successful complaint before the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), who ordered the domain name tiffanyjewelry925.com transferred to the real Tiffany.