Greetings,
Recently, I saw many scammers and frauds cloning the other websites (specially hype/ponzi websites) to create a new fraudulent website less than a few hours with a different name. Many scam detectors are exposing these websites here on forum. But unfortunately, there are many of them and still, there many new people trusting these websites. The best thing to do here is to report these websites to the domain registrar and hope they get down soon before anyone get into the trap.
In this little guide here, I'm going to explain about how to report the scam and fraudulent websites to their registrar effectively. Since these websites are usually using
namecheap(External link) as registrar, I'm going to explain about this one specifically. However, the progress is the same for the other ones usually.
Know their domain registrar:1. In order to detect the domain registrar, you can use WhoIs services maybe the most famous one is (
http://who.is - External link).
2. Fill the box with the website's URL and click on the blue magnifier button to search.
3. After fetching the results, check the registrar info section. Here you can find useful information such as registrar name. In this case the registrar is namecheap.
First Method: 1. Visit (
https://support.namecheap.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit - External link) in order to submit your report.
2. Go for "Abuse Reports" and then check click on "Fraud / Phishing" (Look at the picture bellow).
3. Click "Next".
4. On next page, please fill the for with correct information. According to the namecheap rules, they will need some screenshot from the website. Don't forget to attack the files. Also, if you've been targeted by them you can send them the receipts for more information.
5. In order to track the progress of your report, you can check your email. Also, if you create an account on namecheap website you can track the progress of your request there.
Alternative Method: As an alternative method, if you are usually reporting many websites and It's kinda boring for you to fill the form every time, you can send an email to
[email protected] or
[email protected] with proper information such as screenshots, complete description, receipt, payment method, archived link, etc... They usually check the reports quickly.
There are many other domain registrars. But, since they use namecheap more often. I explained only this one.
In order to clear the internet from these dirty fraudulent websites, please spend just a few minutes and report them.