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A phishing website of Blockchain wallet is currently available in Google search. Since the website looks exactly like the original website, there is a possibility that people will get confused, and maybe they can give their wallet information through this website. Most newbies use Google to search for anything, and scammers take advantage of this opportunity to further their own interests. Scammers use Google's ads most of the time and this is the most effective way to get their phishing website in the first search results.

Most people have little idea about ads blocker, and those who have ideas about phishing ads will not fall into the trap of phishing scammers. So our responsibility is to warn the newbie as much as possible about such scams.

Website:
https://i.ibb.co/whNZFjp/20210608-001249.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/yWbzXkv/20210608-001334.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/fDzdMcz/20210608-001312.jpg

It's not new. Scammers always target newbies and that's one of the disadvantages of using web wallets. That's why at least we should bookmark the website we are using often. They are showing a address also phishing and redirecting to another domain which is phishing as well. But seems it doesn't matching with the Blockchain wallet.

Anyway thanks for sharing it with the community. Hope others would take a lesson from here.

I wonder what volutes are...

Also a good suggestion I'd add is to always click the first non ad link you find on a search engine. Ads have to be labelled as such in most juristidictions anyway.

It exists for every Bitcoin type of website on Google. It has been quite prevalent for Electrum at least. Those sites don't achieve a high enough SEO and is often just displayed as an ad. Most of them involves several redirections which I'm assume is what helps them to evade detection. Don't think it's particularly useful but it would be better to just report it first.

There are quite a few variants of this and we don't need to help with their SEO.

It's why Adblockers like uBlock Origin come in handy. On my browser with uBlock Origin active, nothing shows up, On the other browser without any adblocker I got 2 more phishing sites

I tried to access the site but this is what it shows

https://i.imgur.com/9vXmPEz.png

It seems that my Cloudflare DNS blocking this site or the site is already taking down?

Nice one pointing it out. The scammer(s) even did a double addition on the name that should alert any ardent reader of the phishing. Only that most newbies are always in a hurry and won't notice the difference — https://login.blockchHaiLn.com/ It's this same stuff that makes me insist on getting a direct link from anyone suggesting an app to me for download.  It's now common this day on playstore too. One has to be sure of what one is downloading, otherwise one lands on a scam app.

Yes this website is down and it no longer exists online. It's nice to see that if someone finds and reports a phishing website, it is possible to take those websites down. But the problem is that scammers will not stop their activities, they will try to create more new websites. I've already found another blockchain's phishing website, which means they're continuing their activities as before.

I think Google does not do deeper anti-scam analysis before approving its ads. it is primarily checked whether it is an advertising of something illegal.
but they are reported very quickly, so Google reacts and deletes its ads. only a few days have passed here since the domain registration itself.


how many such phishing sites do you think there are? how many of them were deleted without we being able to find out about them?
Unfortunately, for scammers, this is a proven method that probably brings some profit, and new ones will always appear.

Google and Facebook advertising scams, phishing websites cannot detect unless someone reports the ad. Many people leave the phishing website before reporting, which could result in someone being scammed by that website. So one should check enough before trusting Google and Facebook ads.

There are a lot of such phishing websites out there and we can't bring them out much that many people fall into that trap. To protect community members from such scams, they need to be warned, so similar phishing websites should be exopse and written regularly about the purpose of those websites so that this website can no longer be on the Internet in the future.

It's not existing anymore and might have been deleted by the authorities, the easiest way to detect a phishing site is to always bookmark site that you frequently used, always check the bookmark icon and see if it is the site that you want to visit, and always don't entertain any links coming from unknown sources, just hit delete or spam and you are good to go.

I haven't used the bookmark feature on any browsers since I just leave the sites open and not closed so I don't really have any worries that I will land on a phishing site. Another thing that I do is to try to check the official Twitter of the site that I want to visit because it's much safer.

It's not appearing on my Google search anymore, it's either Google has de-index this site already, or has been taken by the domain registrar because of probably reports they got so it's good news.

However, this is not the last, we might see another similar sites popping in the next couple of days, maybe from the same bad actors.

Tomorrow or the day after that the ad will definitely appear again and some of the actors must be masterminded by the same person, but it never goes away is the ad from the blockchain that is always there, but indeed for now any search we will not find phishing sites on google.
And after one appears, other phishing sites will also be scattered when we do any search, so this is really disturbing for those who don't know or don't understand.

I can see the domain is till running and working properly to me. And they are promoting a apps called 1.1.1.1 that means 4 into one maybe.

https://i.postimg.cc/WzjgV4bR/Screenshot-1.png
As already said by others, this is nor new one. Google always do such shit job and don't care what the ads displayed.

Phishing sites are everywhere on  google even with ads to promote the site. A lot of people had fallen into this trap due to their ignorance of the original site. This is the reason why original sites must take preventive measures to ensure that they report fake sites trying to spoil the name of there site by labelling them as phishing to Google, so that there existance can be cut off.

i got scammed before from google search first results 0.015 BTC but np its a good lession learned!

Can you share on which website you were scammed? Because if you share the name of the website, others could be warned about that website. Scammers may still be using that website to scam people, putting many people at risk.

BTW, who suspects that no one is a victim of such scams. Now you should show them your losses and explain how dangerous Google ads are for crypto users. There is no point in learning a lesson after being the victim of a scam, everyone needs to be alert in advance, and keep themselves updated so that scammers don't fool you. Most of the time people fall prey to such scams just by looking at tempting offers.