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#msg52162889![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FetB1tON.jpg&t=663&c=8CFoRtfnWhpRkQ)
According to whois, website is only two days-old and impersonating official stellar.org albeit it doesn't look similar to official one.
![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2xmZBOJ.jpg&t=663&c=fvxaUDfNKZ1v3w)
In order to "claim" your free 2500 XLM, you need to download some malicious software (Windows only
![Grin](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
).
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.