Documented alert
oceanpulsepump.com
Under reviewoceanpulsepump.com — offers the HD/SP-00 pump requested in a fake Unilever RFQ
Published
A request for quotation sent to a European trading company on 16 September 2026 asked for 12 units of a ROBUST HD/SP-00 SERIES PUMP, “original only”. It used the sender name “Unilever” and a Unilever letterhead, was signed in the name of a real Unilever supply-chain executive, and asked for quotations to be sent to an address at unileverpurchase.com. The attached tender document, reference UNL84/20058/26, is dated 15 September 2026, sets a deadline of 25 September 2026 and states payment terms of 100% by bank transfer upon inspection of the goods.
The registry dates the current registration of unileverpurchase.com to 15 September 2026 — the date printed on the tender, and the day before the e-mail arrived. The name had been registered before: the Internet Archive holds a copy from December 2021 showing a registrar’s “Registrant WHOIS contact information verification” page. Today the domain serves an empty directory listing, and its DNS records are set up to receive e-mail.
The tender prints the company number 00334527. Companies House records that number as Unilever UK Limited, with its registered office in Kingston upon Thames rather than at the London address the tender gives as its registered office. A genuine registration number is easy to copy and says nothing about who sent a document.
The pump is offered on one website
A web search for the product code on 17 September 2026 found it offered on one website: oceanpulsepump.com, which lists “Robust HD/SP-00 Series Heavy-Duty Wastewater self Pumps”. A data sheet attached to the same e-mail shows a pump of that name under the Unilever logo.
The site presents itself as “OceanPulse Pump Ltd.” and says the company was “Established in 1988”; its About page is headed “1988~Now”. The registry dates oceanpulsepump.com to 17 January 2025, and the earliest copy of it held by the Internet Archive is from the same month. Its home, About, Locations, Contact and product pages give no street address and no company registration number. The contact details they give are two e-mail addresses and, on the product page, a US telephone number.
Why this shape of enquiry is dangerous
The trader who receives the request is the target. They do not stock the part, so they search for it, find a supplier, and pay that supplier in advance in order to fulfil an order that does not exist. Nothing ships, and the trader carries the loss.
A second request in the same week
A request impersonating MOL Group reached the same company on 15 September 2026, asking for twelve FLX-FIP745 pumps. Its e-mail text matches this one almost word for word, both tender documents follow the same template and are dated 15 September 2026, and both documents name the same author in their file properties. See the alert for lmkengineering.com.
What to do if you received this
- Do not send a quotation, and do not pay any supplier you found only by searching for the requested product.
- Verify the enquiring company through contact details you obtain independently — never those in the e-mail or its attachments.
- Check when the enquirer’s domain and the supplier’s domain were registered. Each check takes a minute.
- Report the message to your national cybercrime reporting service.
Verified facts
Each entry below comes from a public record that you can check yourself. Nothing here is our opinion.
Domain registered
oceanpulsepump.com
2025-01-17
The current registration is 1 year and 9 months old.
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Claimed trading history is not supported by the record
oceanpulsepump.com
Claims 1988, current registration 2025-01-17
The site presents itself as trading since 1988. The registry dates the current registration of this domain to 2025-01-17. Its earlier history has not been checked, so this entry states only what the registry records.
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Registrar
oceanpulsepump.com
NameCheap, Inc.
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Name servers
oceanpulsepump.com
pdns1.registrar-servers.com, pdns2.registrar-servers.com
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Current registration
unileverpurchase.com
2026-09-15
The current registration is 1 month old.
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Domain re-registered after previous ownership lapsed
unileverpurchase.com
Archived since 2021-12-28, current registration 2026-09-15
Public archives hold copies of this domain from 2021-12-28 onward, but the registry dates the current registration to 2026-09-15. The domain therefore lapsed and was registered again. The registry record does not show whether the holder is the same as before.
Source: Internet Archive CDX index and RDAP registry record
Registered for the minimum term only
unileverpurchase.com
2026-09-15 to 2027-09-15
A single year was paid for. Businesses expecting to trade long term generally register for longer; disposable infrastructure does not.
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Registrar
unileverpurchase.com
PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Name servers
unileverpurchase.com
ns1.hostycare.online, ns2.hostycare.online
Source: RDAP registry record (rdap.verisign.com)
Records last re-checked on 2026-09-17.
Part numbers used in this campaign
Our assessment
This section is opinion, not established fact. It is our reading of the records above.
The records above do not prove criminal intent on their own, and this page asserts no court finding.
Our assessment is that this request for quotation did not come from Unilever. It names a domain registered the day before it was sent, which serves no website, and a registered office that does not match the company register. It follows the pattern of the fake procurement enquiries this register documents: an urgent tender for a pump few distributors would stock, "original only", on terms under which the trader would have to buy the pumps before being paid.
We consider it likely that oceanpulsepump.com is the supplier half of the same operation: it is the only website we found offering the requested pump, it claims a trading history its public records do not show, and it publishes no address or company registration details. That link is our reading of the records and has not been proven, which is why this alert is marked for caution rather than as strong evidence.
We make no claim against Unilever or its staff, whose name, logo and company details appear to have been used without their knowledge. If you are connected with any domain named here and believe a statement is inaccurate, use the correction link below.
How to recognise this before you pay
The part number returns exactly one supplier
Genuine industrial parts are stocked by distributors, listed in catalogues and discussed in forums. A code that exists on one website and nowhere else was invented to send you there.
A large company enquires from a free mailbox
Procurement departments write from their own domain. Gmail, Outlook and similar addresses do not become legitimate because the signature says otherwise.
Replies are directed to a slightly different domain
Check the reply address character by character against the company's real website. A city name or extra word appended to a famous brand is the whole trick.
The supplier wants payment before shipping
Advance payment to a supplier you found only through the buyer's enquiry is how the money leaves. Established suppliers offer terms or escrow.
The supplier's domain is young, or recently changed hands
A registry lookup takes thirty seconds. A "manufacturer since 2004" operating from a domain registered last spring is telling you something.
No company registration number
Registered companies in most of Europe must publish their registration number. Check it against the national register rather than trusting the footer.
Think something here is wrong?
If you are connected to any domain or address named on this page and believe a statement is inaccurate, tell us and point at the record that shows it. We will correct or remove it promptly where the evidence supports that, and we will say that we did.