Store · Threat Intelligence (Takedown)
There is a site wearing your company's face scamming your customers right now, and every hour it stays up claims one more victim.
A customer calls furious over a charge on a page that 'was yours'. An Instagram profile with your logo advertises a promotion and collects payments and card data. An app with your name shows up in a store and asks whoever downloads it for their password. You built none of them, but the scam uses your brand, and the anger and the loss fall on you. Reporting it yourself to the platform enters a queue that takes days, while the money keeps leaving. The question is no longer whether this will happen to your company. It is how fast you can get it taken down.
3.8 million unique phishing sites were cataloged worldwide in 2025 alone, according to the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG); most imitate a real brand to deceive its customers.
In a single quarter of 2025, criminals impersonated 427 distinct brands in phishing scams, according to APWG: your brand does not need to be famous to become the bait for a scam.
The scam's content is hosted somewhere you do not control, so your firewall and your antivirus cannot remove it: they protect your network, not the entire internet. Only a removal request to the host, the domain registrar or the platform takes the fraud offline.
Takedown is the service that removes the abusive content from the internet, the phishing site, the profile impersonating you, the fake app, by triggering the removal with hosts, registrars and platforms, fast and at scale. Zamak Technologies drives each case from start to finish and is your point of contact.
How your brand becomes a weapon
The scam uses your name, but the loss and the anger reach you.
See four common ways criminals turn your brand into bait, and why each keeps causing damage while it stays online. None of them depends on the size of your company: it is enough to have a name your customers recognize and trust for it to be worth imitating.
A page identical to yours captures your customers' login and payment.
A site copies your brand, your layout and even an address almost identical to yours, and deceives the customer who searched for you. They type the password, the card details or make a payment thinking it is your company. To the customer, it was you who robbed them. While that page is up, every visit is a new victim. Taking it down fast is what cuts the scam at the root.
A fake profile with your logo advertises a promotion and collects the money.
On social media, a profile clones your name and your photo, replies to your customers as if it were your support and offers a discount that does not exist to capture data and payments. Often it even pays for an ad to reach more people. While the profile looks official, every follower of yours is a target, and the complaints come to your inbox, not the fraudster's.
A fake app with your name asks for the password of whoever trusts you.
In an app store, an app uses your name and your icon to look like the official one. Whoever downloads it hands over login, data or even access to the device, and then leaves a bad review thinking the service is yours. You lose the customer and the reputation at once, for a product you never published. Removing the app from the store ends the damage and clears your name.
A profile impersonating a director asks for an urgent transfer.
A fraudster creates a profile or a contact that imitates an executive of your company and writes to an employee or a supplier urgently requesting a transfer or confidential data. Because it seems to come from leadership, the order is carried out. This is the fraud known as CEO fraud. Removing the fake profile and alerting the team closes the door the fraudster opened with your leadership's name.
In all of these cases, the fraud lives outside your network, on a server, a profile or a store you do not control, and your firewall and your antivirus cannot reach it. Triggering the removal at the source, fast, is what takedown adds to your defenses.
What takedown is
It is not blocking on your firewall. It is taking the fraud offline, at the source.
Takedown, also called content removal, is the managed process of requesting and driving the removal of everything that impersonates your company or abuses it (phishing sites and pages, fake profiles, fake apps and deceptive ads) with those who have the power to remove it: the hosting providers, the domain registrars and the platforms. It is not a filter on your side; it is the removal at the source. Zamak operates that process, escalates each case and is your point of contact.
Identifies and documents the abuse
Every removal starts with the proof. Zamak gathers the evidence that a given site, profile or app impersonates your company or uses your brand without authorization: screenshots, records and the link to your domain or your identity. It is that documentation that supports the request and makes the host or the platform act faster.
Triggers the removal at the source, fast and at scale
With the evidence in hand, Zamak opens the removal request with the hosting provider, the domain registrar or the right platform, wherever the content is hosted, and escalates through the abuse channels an internal team rarely has access to. Several scams at once are handled in parallel, without your team entering each queue.
Follows through until it is offline and reports
The request is not 'send and hope'. Zamak follows each case, reinforces the request when the host is slow and confirms when the content is offline. In the end, you receive a report under the Zamak brand for each removal, ready for the board, the audit and your insurance. It is what closes the cycle between finding the scam and ending it.
Takedown does not replace prevention (registering your domains, verifying your official profiles, training your team) or detection (the monitoring that finds the abuse): prevention reduces and detection finds; takedown is what makes the fraud disappear once it already exists. Whoever detects without removing only documents the loss.
What is included
The removal that takes it down and the management that drives it, together
You point out the scam (or our monitoring finds it) and Zamak takes care of all the rest: the proof, the request, the escalation and the confirmation that it is offline. You focus on your business.
The removal that takes the fraud offline
The takedown of the abusive content at the source, whatever the vector.
- Removal of phishing sites and pages that imitate your company or capture customers' data and payments
- Takedown of fake profiles on social media that impersonate your brand or your executives
- Removal of fake apps published with your name or your icon in app stores
- Action against deceptive ads and misuse of your brand, logo or domain
- Work with hosting providers, domain registrars and platforms, wherever the content is hosted
- Follow-through on each case until confirmation that the content is offline
Management and contact by Zamak
The layer that drives each case and places it all alongside your company.
- Opening and driving each case end to end, without your team entering the platforms' queue
- Gathering of the evidence that supports the removal request, to speed it up and for your record
- Prioritization by severity: what captures money or customer data is triggered first
- Report under the Zamak brand for each removal, ready for the board, the audit and the insurance
- A single point of contact to escalate a new scam as soon as you or a customer finds it
- Model sized to your risk: one-off removals on demand or a monthly allowance within a plan
Inside the service
How a scam with your name comes offline
For those who want the detail: this is how a site, a profile or an app that abuses your brand ceases to exist, from the moment it is found to the confirmation of removal.
Broad coverage of vectors
The removal covers the main channels a scam uses: phishing sites and subdomains, fake profiles on social media, fake apps in app stores and ads that abuse your brand. A scam rarely comes alone, and handling every vector closes the exits the criminal would try next.
Action at the source, with whoever can remove it
The request goes straight to whoever has the power to take the content down: the provider that hosts the site, the registrar that controls the domain or the platform that harbors the profile or the app. It is the path that actually removes, instead of just reporting in a generic form and waiting. Zamak knows these abuse channels and speaks their language.
Evidence that speeds up the request
A request without proof goes to the back of the queue. Each case is built with the evidence that demonstrates the abuse: the link to your brand or domain, captures of the scam and the record of where it is, with automatic text reading in images so nothing hidden in screenshots is missed. It is what makes the host act quickly.
Speed and scale
Doing it yourself usually means waiting days, depending on each provider's goodwill. A mature process, with the right channels and active follow-through, resolves many cases in hours, and handles several scams at the same time. In takedown, speed is what defines the size of the loss avoided.
Prioritization and escalation
Not every scam is equally urgent. What captures money or customer data goes first, and a case a provider ignores is escalated through other paths until it comes down. The order follows the damage to your business, not the order in which the scams appeared.
Reporting under your brand and recognized intelligence
The record of each removal arrives under the Zamak brand, not a vendor's name. Behind it, the analysis and hunting that support the requests come from internationally recognized threat intelligence, which gives the case weight with the providers and authority to what you take to your board and your insurance.
The intelligence behind the service has operated since 2012, is a member of FIRST (the international forum of incident response teams), contributes to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, protects over 500 organizations worldwide and runs with 99.99% uptime, 24 hours a day.
The analysis and hunting run without stopping; Zamak opens the case, triggers the removal, follows through until it is offline and is your point of contact.
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The comparison
Reporting on your own, calling only the lawyer, or a managed takedown
When a scam with your brand appears, there are three paths: report it yourself in the platforms' forms and wait, involve only legal with a notice, or hire a managed takedown that gathers the proof, triggers the removal at the source and drives it until it is down. The comparison is between response models. The Zamak column lists only what Zamak delivers to the client.
Speed until it is offline
The Zamak choice
Managed takedown
The right abuse channels and active follow-through remove many cases in hours
Reporting on your own
The platforms' generic queue: days, when it answers
Legal notice only
A legal timeline, too slow for a scam acting now
Coverage of the vectors
The Zamak choice
Managed takedown
Sites, profiles, apps and ads, on any provider or platform
Reporting on your own
Only each platform's channel, one at a time
Legal notice only
Focus on the legal harm, not the technical removal
Several scams at once
The Zamak choice
Managed takedown
Handled in parallel, with prioritization by severity
Reporting on your own
Your team drowns in the volume and the queues
Legal notice only
Each case is a new action, costly and slow
Evidence that speeds it up
The Zamak choice
Managed takedown
Proof built for the provider to act fast and for your record
Reporting on your own
Whatever you manage to gather alone, with no standard
Legal notice only
Documentation for the case, not for the removal
Point of contact and driving
The Zamak choice
Managed takedown
Zamak opens, escalates and confirms; you follow the result
Reporting on your own
You yourself, between your other tasks
Legal notice only
The firm, focused on the legal side
Cost and effort to have this
The Zamak choice
Managed takedown
A predictable cost, per removal or on a monthly allowance, with no team to build
Reporting on your own
Your team's hours, with no scale or assurance
Legal notice only
Fees per case, high for the volume of scams
A comparison between response models to a brand abuse (reporting on your own, the legal route only and the managed takedown). The Zamak column lists only what Zamak delivers to the client. The removal's effectiveness is high, but the timeline depends on each provider, registrar and platform, and not every case is resolved immediately.
Risk, impact and response
For every scam with your name, a removal before the damage grows
A phishing site with your brand captures customers' data and payments
Harmed customers, improper charges and the reputation of a scammer falling on you
How takedown responds
The removal is triggered at the source, the site goes offline and the damage stops growing
A fake brand profile runs a scam promotion on social media
Mass fraud against your followers and a flood of complaints to you
How takedown responds
The fake profile is removed and the case is escalated with the platform until closed
A fake app with your name appears in an app store
The credentials of whoever downloads it, and a bad review that falls on your brand
How takedown responds
The fake app is removed from the store and your name stops being used as bait
A fake profile of an executive requests a transfer from an employee
A transfer fraud carried out in your leadership's name
How takedown responds
The fake profile is removed and the team is alerted before the order is carried out
The proof, the removal trigger, the follow-through and the point of contact are Zamak's.
For every decision maker
What taking the scam offline fast means for whoever decides
Ending the abuse of your brand before it spreads solves a different pain for each role in the company.
Owner and founder
Your name protected from becoming a scam tool
When someone uses your brand to rob your customers, you are not left with your hands tied hearing that 'there is nothing to be done'. The scam is found, the removal is triggered and the content comes offline. The name you built to inspire trust stays yours, not bait in a criminal's hands.
Executives and management
The diffuse risk of brand fraud becomes a predictable response
Instead of reacting in a panic to each new scam, you have a removal process contracted and documented, with a report for the board, the insurance and the audit. Digital crime caused 16.6 billion dollars in losses reported to the FBI in 2024 alone, a 33% jump in one year, and phishing and impersonation are among the highest-volume crimes; having the removal ready is a fraction of that risk.
Internal IT leader
The removal your team cannot do on its own
Your team takes care of the network and the systems, but does not have the relationship with the providers and the platforms to take down a scam hosted elsewhere, nor the time to fight in each queue. Zamak, as your backup, takes on that part, alongside your team, never in its place; you point out the abuse and follow it until the content is offline.
IT partner
A removal module for your offer
Offer your clients the removal of scams with their brand, without building your own takedown operation or maintaining the relationship with dozens of providers and platforms. Zamak operates behind the scenes and drives each case; the relationship with the client stays yours.
Why Zamak
The removal of the scam, with people who understand your business driving the case
Zamak Technologies does not just hand over an alert that a scam exists. It gathers the proof, triggers the removal with hosts, registrars and platforms, escalates what gets stuck, follows through until the content is offline and translates each case into your business language.
It is years of experience caring for the IT of companies, with specialists who serve in Portuguese, English and Spanish. It is your backup for the abuse that happens outside your perimeter and your point of contact, alongside your team, never in its place.
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Is there a scam using your name? Zamak takes it down.
As you read this, fake sites and profiles impersonate companies to rob their customers: there were 3.8 million phishing sites in 2025 alone, most imitating a real brand, and every hour up claims a new victim. Whoever has the removal ready ends many scams in hours, not days. Talk to Zamak and have a takedown at hand to take the fraud offline, with the proof, the escalation and the follow-through handled by Zamak.
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