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Economy => Scam Accusations => Topic started by: cryptomaniac_xxx on August 22, 2020, 10:08:57 AM



Title: [Scam]: A fake Bustabit website
Post by: cryptomaniac_xxx on August 22, 2020, 10:08:57 AM
What happened: A clone and fake bustabit.com website

Website:
Code:
https://bustabits.us/index.html

https://i.imgur.com/qcFfS7b.png

Archive: http://archive.is/iVo6g

This website clone the original https://www.bustabit.com/. And then the thing is that it will automatically ask for you login info: username and password, you can't even exit that dialog box.

Domain info:

https://i.imgur.com/Ds3R8so.png

That website is created days ago, another red-flag.

https://whois.domaintools.com/bustabits.us

Real website: https://www.bustabit.com/



Title: Re: [Scam]: A fake Bustabit website
Post by: bL4nkcode on August 22, 2020, 10:30:43 AM
You can submit a report to its registrar as what I did, namecheap, so that this clone website will be suspended.

Submit a ticket (https://support.namecheap.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit) > Abuse report > Fraud / Phishing

You can report any clone websites to its registrar coz its against their TOS.


Title: Re: [Scam]: A fake Bustabit website
Post by: btc_angela on August 22, 2020, 10:34:35 PM
Thanks for reporting this, and it looks like criminals are also targeting well-known online games today. As far as I can remember there was one case here wherein someone try to lure many gamblers by messaging them a phishing site.

I reported them as well to https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en just to be sure it won't appear anymore.


Title: Re: [Scam]: A fake Bustabit website
Post by: logfiles on August 22, 2020, 11:42:07 PM
Nice catch OP. Hope there has been no victim yet in the 12 days the domain has been in operation.
I have done my part too by reporting the domain to namecheap.com


Title: Re: [Scam]: A fake Bustabit website
Post by: cryptomaniac_xxx on August 25, 2020, 07:28:23 AM
The website has been flagged as "Deceptive Site", thanks to those who have reported it.