[Scam]: Fake Atomic wallet thru Google Ads

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Quote from: alani123 on September 06, 2020, 07:55:56 PM

Namecheap has a pretty clean reputation. From my experience they shut blatant scams down fairly quickly. If someone shows this to them hopefully they'll take action. I'm a bit surprised the offender kept his domain there to be honest.

It looks like it's no longer accessible in my end as well. And I click on the whois, and it seems it was updated a day ago, but I'm not sure who updated it, namecheap or those cyber criminals. And I'm wondering, if they shut it down for good, it shouldn't appear on whois?

Anyhow, this is a good catch, hope no noobs fall for this or any other atomic wallet phishing site.

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ScamViruS also created another thread for fake atomic wallet with different spelling this time.

https://atoimcwallet.io/

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/atomic-wallets-phishing-website-is-being-promoting-in-googles-ads-5274235

Scammers will try their best to screw naive users who are not even checking the domain name they are visiting. Bottomline, if google has not flagged it down, it is the user himself that needs to meticulously check the sites he's signing in.

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Quote from: alani123 on September 06, 2020, 07:55:56 PM

Namecheap has a pretty clean reputation. From my experience they shut blatant scams down fairly quickly. If someone shows this to them hopefully they'll take action. I'm a bit surprised the offender kept his domain there to be honest.

They won't unless your request is accompanied with some legal power Cheesy

Same goes for other domain, CDN, hosting companies. But if the provider is based in europe then it won't be any trouble. A simple mail explicating the situation and your position(i don't think they will act on an anonymous request) will do.

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Good job OP. You can notify Atomic wallet authority about this phishing website by sharing your thread link.

Quote from: Jating on September 07, 2020, 10:31:12 AM

@aioc - I agree with you, but these criminals are really good at hiding their intentions when they avail of this so called Google Ads, they can camouflage and cloak it during application, that's why Google can't detect it right away. So we need to be very vigilant and report it to them if we find phishing sites.

Yeah you are right. Usually phishing or clone websites spend little bit extra money for SEO and due to this reason in most cases visitors get their name first before the real website. If anyone carelessly ignore the site url before starting to surf then no one can't save them from getting scammed.

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Quote from: crwth on September 06, 2020, 10:33:11 PM

Quote from: Kemarit on September 06, 2020, 08:12:53 PM

Also reported to Google as well, so let's hope that it will be taken down.

Hey there. Nice catch! Anyways, any reference you could point out in which if I saw some scam sites/links? Whether it's advertised in Google or not, what to do? As you said, you already reported it. Like what are the steps and needed information to make it a successful one? I'm going to try it if I found some malicious websites possible for scamming and report it here as well.

I don't think there's no secret though, earlier I tried to used the term "Exodus Wallet", and I saw one phishing site, similar to what the OP find. Unfortunately, I didn't archived it or take a screenshot.

Code:

https://exodus.cm/
https://exodus.sg/

@aioc - I agree with you, but these criminals are really good at hiding their intentions when they avail of this so called Google Ads, they can camouflage and cloak it during application, that's why Google can't detect it right away. So we need to be very vigilant and report it to them if we find phishing sites.

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Quote from: Kemarit on September 06, 2020, 08:12:53 PM

Quote from: alani123 on September 06, 2020, 07:55:56 PM

Namecheap has a pretty clean reputation. From my experience they shut blatant scams down fairly quickly. If someone shows this to them hopefully they'll take action. I'm a bit surprised the offender kept his domain there to be honest.

I already have a ticket number;

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General Information

Ticket ID    #ZFQ-587-65975
First and Last Name : xxxx
Email : xxx
Type    Issue
Priority    High

Also reported to Google as well, so let's hope that it will be taken down.

In the first place they should be the one screening domains that are meant to be a duplicate of a legit domain and once reported the owners should be liable to answers, I understand that Namecheap do not have a KYC for all their clients, so the abuse will keep going unless they do something about this.

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Quote from: Kemarit on September 06, 2020, 08:12:53 PM

Also reported to Google as well, so let's hope that it will be taken down.

Hey there. Nice catch! Anyways, any reference you could point out in which if I saw some scam sites/links? Whether it's advertised in Google or not, what to do? As you said, you already reported it. Like what are the steps and needed information to make it a successful one? I'm going to try it if I found some malicious websites possible for scamming and report it here as well.

btc_angela

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I'm no longer seeing the fake and scam site on Google. They may have taken it down very quickly, once you sent your reports. And when I try to go the website using Firefox:

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Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.

We can’t connect to the server at atomicwllet.io.

So it's no longer accessible in any web browser as well.

Kemarit

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Quote from: alani123 on September 06, 2020, 07:55:56 PM

Namecheap has a pretty clean reputation. From my experience they shut blatant scams down fairly quickly. If someone shows this to them hopefully they'll take action. I'm a bit surprised the offender kept his domain there to be honest.

I already have a ticket number;

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General Information

Ticket ID    #ZFQ-587-65975
First and Last Name : xxxx
Email : xxx
Type    Issue
Priority    High

Also reported to Google as well, so let's hope that it will be taken down.

alani123

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Namecheap has a pretty clean reputation. From my experience they shut blatant scams down fairly quickly. If someone shows this to them hopefully they'll take action. I'm a bit surprised the offender kept his domain there to be honest.

Kemarit

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What Happened: Fake Atomic wallet

Website:

Code:

https://atomicwllet.io/

What makes it worst is that it is being displayed through Google ads

And as per domaintools, the website is just 3 days old.

So everyone needs to be careful, check everything, specially spelling, because it is really hard to differentiate it from the real website: https://atomicwallet.io/

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Registrant Org   WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Country   pa
Registrar   NameCheap, Inc
IANA ID: 1068
URL: www.namecheap.com
Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com

(p)
Registrar Status   addPeriod, clientTransferProhibited, serverTransferProhibited
Dates   3 days old
Created on 2020-09-03
Expires on 2021-09-03
Updated on 2020-09-06

https://whois.domaintools.com/atomicwllet.io

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