What happened: Fake/malicious website ANN: not listed here yetScammers Website: https://official-stellar.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20200730150244/https://xn--sellar-ilb.com/https://archive.is/wLVEuDomain Name: OFFICIAL-STELLAR.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2555371346_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.registrar.eu
Registrar URL:
http://www.openprovider.comUpdated Date: 2020-08-24T20:59:19Z
Creation Date: 2020-08-24T20:52:14Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-08-24T20:52:14Z
Recently I recieved two emails at once from "HitBTC Support" and "HitBTC Info", which was obviously a fake, but I wonder
why scammer chose that scam exchange to promote fake website and airdrops. Doesn't look very attractive.
Proof:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5168200.msg52162889#msg52162889According to whois, website is only two days-old and impersonating official stellar.org albeit it doesn't look similar to official one.
In order to "claim" your free 2500 XLM, you need to download some malicious software (Windows only
).
VirusTotal didn't find anything red in that file, but I believe this software is somehow trying to steal private keys or something like that.
Either way, it is a scam and should be avoided at all costs. Be careful.