[WARNING] Bustabit phising site! DON'T google "bustabit" !!! [SOLVED]

[janggernaut]

UPDATE!

On 4th day after i found this phising site, finally google has taken action by deleted/removed this AD phising site


With this, no one will be fooled by this phising site again. I'll lock this thread few hours later

Always aware with any site you clicked on google, check of the URL is correct or not, and remember to bookmarked any important sites for you.

I've found a phising site of bustabit.com, i said don't google bustabit because the phising link is on top of your browser when you googled it.

Let's check this


When i click it, the interface is exactly same with bustabit.com, but the phising site is , bastabit.com


When i try to check the domain,


This site was created 4 days ago

And this is the record

Code:

Domain name: bastabit.com
Registry Domain ID: 2578370369_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 0001-01-01T00:00:00.00Z
Creation Date: 2020-12-12T22:58:07.00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-12-12T22:58:07.00Z
Registrar: NAMECHEAP INC
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: 
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Reseller: NAMECHEAP INC
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: addPeriod https://icann.org/epp#addPeriod
Registry Registrant ID: 
Registrant Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Registrant Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Street: P.O. Box 0823-03411 
Registrant City: Panama
Registrant State/Province: Panama
Registrant Postal Code: 
Registrant Country: PA
Registrant Phone: +507.8365503
Registrant Phone Ext: 
Registrant Fax: +51.17057182
Registrant Fax Ext: 
Registrant Email: 
Registry Admin ID: 
Admin Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Admin Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Admin Street: P.O. Box 0823-03411 
Admin City: Panama
Admin State/Province: Panama
Admin Postal Code: 
Admin Country: PA
Admin Phone: +507.8365503
Admin Phone Ext: 
Admin Fax: +51.17057182
Admin Fax Ext: 
Admin Email: 
Registry Tech ID: 
Tech Name: WhoisGuard Protected
Tech Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Tech Street: P.O. Box 0823-03411 
Tech City: Panama
Tech State/Province: Panama
Tech Postal Code: 
Tech Country: PA
Tech Phone: +507.8365503
Tech Phone Ext: 
Tech Fax: +51.17057182
Tech Fax Ext: 
Tech Email: 
Name Server: dns1.registrar-servers.com
Name Server: dns2.registrar-servers.com
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp

If you gonna playing on bustabit, just make sure you have bookmarked the real site (bustabit.com), don't google it or you can be fooled by phising link.

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[dothebeats]

Good catch. I wonder why Google still promote such obvious scams for a few dollars on their search results. It feels as if the internet's biggest search engine doesn't care about internet users encountering malicious websites advertised by them. I remember back in 2017, most exchanges have phishing sites wherein if you search their name on Google, it will return you a sponsored website with a few letters edited to imitate the original website. If Google really is against illegal activities, they should also filter ads application for their search results, and not accept applications immediately.

[goinmerry]

Isn't it common nowadays that Google search results with a tag of an "AD" shouldn't be trusted or followed?

Not just in Bustabit but other websites also have an AD version in their search results e.g Roobet, Stake.com, Primedice

It's not that Google isn't taking down those sites but even after they shutdown a page, there will be another one, and so on. Maybe Google should not use automated tools or something for approving a site. They should look at the internal stuff of the said website before allowing it to be placed on their search ads.

For users themselves, we need to use our common sense for this.

[Joel_Jantsen]

Good catch. I wonder why Google still promote such obvious scams for a few dollars on their search results. It feels as if the internet's biggest search engine doesn't care about internet users encountering malicious websites advertised by them. I remember back in 2017, most exchanges have phishing sites wherein if you search their name on Google, it will return you a sponsored website with a few letters edited to imitate the original website. If Google really is against illegal activities, they should also filter ads application for their search results, and not accept applications immediately.

That's because most of their advertisement process is automated and so is handling the reports if you report that link. Anyone can buy any domain and buy ads from google. Unless someone reports that as a phishing link, they wouldn't care. However, a good antivirus application usually helps by blocking such links in your browser. You can also right-click on a small dropdown next to the ad and report it.

[rhomelmabini]

Just update your browsers especially Chrome because whenever you're into an obvious site that just opened recently and the site you always open regularly the chrome gives you a notification on the left-side corner of your screens indicating that the site you open isn't the one you open regularly. Usually I try to bookmark sites that I always visits especially gambling, exchange, custodial wallets, etc. that I tend to open on my browser for safety purposes.

Isn't it common nowadays that Google search results with a tag of an "AD" shouldn't be trusted or followed?

Not the case but mostly I tend to ignore those especially if I really know the site but it's really on utmost importance that newbie should always DYOR and not that easily to click links just because it was atop of the search results. I do hope Google could have more extensive AI to detect such obvious scams just by tweaking the domains.

[Dave1]

I'm maintaining a list of Bustabit phishing site here: Warning: Bustabit phishing site.

Probably the same actor as I have reported a bustabit phishing site that has been taken down already. So they re-create another site to continue with their scamming activity.

[BigBoy89]

I already report it to Namecheap. It should be down very soon.

What is more interesting is many people are clicking blindly and how much money those arsholes are making that they can afford to pay for Google Ads.

BTW if you want to kickback, go to Google and click on the AD and then close the site. It costs them nearly a dollar per click.

[acroman08]

I noticed a lot of bustabit phishing site is popping up these days. Dave1 posted a couple of bustabit phishing site a couple of days ago is there something going on that in bustabit that piqued the interest of these scammers?

@OP good catch! also reported the ad to google.

Isn't it common nowadays that Google search results with a tag of an "AD" shouldn't be trusted or followed?

yeah, it is, but sometimes there are people who still don't know the danger behind it. and sometimes some people think that the ad was created by the original website.

[avikz]

Excellent catch op! I have just reported this ad to Google and I request everyone to do it! Just click on the small "i" button at the top right cornar of this ad and a pop up will open. There you will have an option to report this advertising. This way Google will know something wrong is ongoing. If few other people also reports it, hopefully Google will remove this ad.

[delfastTions]

Excellent catch op! I have just reported this ad to Google and I request everyone to do it! Just click on the small "i" button at the top right cornar of this ad and a pop up will open. There you will have an option to report this advertising. This way Google will know something wrong is ongoing. If few other people also reports it, hopefully Google will remove this ad.

Of course, when a few outraged users report a problem, this monster of the Internet may be able to remove the phishing content.  But the question arises, there they have tens of thousands of employees around the world, that they do not know something, how scammers change letters in domain names. 
Is this really news for them !!!   
You might even think that they are not making an effort on purpose to combat this phishing.  Although of course the flow of substitutions is huge, there are also a lot of employees. 
We could have put things in order so that people feel comfortable.

[acquafredda]

Do yourself a favour and install an adblocker. Google is getting pretty bad at this lately! Also, do not use google for your searches but go fro duckduckgo, startpage and other privacy centric search engines.

[yayayo]

Good catch! It's so nice that many of the users here are active to spot such phishing websites and doesn't hesitate post it here. I've also seen on their thread about newbies talking about an APP on playstore and I saw some members telling that there's no such thing. Looks like they are targeting the Bustabit.

ya.ya.yo!

[ReiMomo]

Its a good catch OP, I also reported the fake gambling site that you have found in google ads.

This is the reason I didn't trust search in google using a search engine, they don't care the users or people who will become a victim because of letting scam ads pay them just because of the money they will get. It's a pure business even though they know that there's perhaps a victim.

I reported also the fake link, I hope everyone will do the same so that google will remove that fake sites. It's better to bookmark the real site than using google search, that's horrible.

[delfastTions]

Do yourself a favour and install an adblocker. Google is getting pretty bad at this lately! Also, do not use google for your searches but go fro duckduckgo, startpage and other privacy centric search engines.

Unfortunately, this internet-monster is the leader of user requests.  
In 2020,  It takes the biggest advantage in the mobile version of search, but for the desktop version, Google's share is unmatched.  The global desktop market share is 70.60%.
 The share of other search engines in the world market:
 Bing - 13.2%
 Baidu - 11.77%
 Yahoo - 2.30% of the market.

 Google has over 2 trillion searches a year

And all phishing scams target this search engine, of course.

[Ucy]

I guess the site appeared as Ad on search results.   Sometimes I wonder why proper investigation aren't done before allowing such ads on top of search results.

I think it will be important that the real site gets enough people to reports the one using its name to Google. Perhaps the site will be penalized for trying to pretend to be another.

[NotATether]

Shouldn't it be obvious to anyone looking to gamble there not to go to a site called "bastabit"? Seriously, you have to be really light-headed to miss that typo because you can even see it on your phone's top bar, it's not like they're using obfuscated punycode.

Also an adblocker will trivially solve this problem, you can even get Adblock Plus for Google Chrome and Safari on mobile last time I checked.

[Rodeo02]

I guess the site appeared as Ad on search results.   Sometimes I wonder why proper investigation aren't done before allowing such ads on top of search results.

I think it will be important that the real site gets enough people to reports the one using its name to Google. Perhaps the site will be penalized for trying to pretend to be another.

It's the same thing when you are looking for an exchange and search it in Google . as long as google just lets the scammer use them using ads. the phishing of those people will continue I just wish Google do their job and   review every ads  first before they accept the ads.so ,that there are no more victims and there are also many beginners who can be fooled by that simple tricks.

[lienfaye]

The first in the search result of google (especially if its only an Ad) doesnt necessarily mean it is the legit site that you're looking for.

Those gamblers who are not taking time to check the right URL of the gambling site that they want to visit has a high chance of ending up in phishing site like this one. Its a must to bookmark the site we usually visit to become certain, well its a basic thing that we should be aware of.

Anyways this is common nowadays and even other gambling sites are not safe to these people who wants to take advantage the gamblers.

[traderethereum]

It is proof that we should be careful when we search through Google or other search engines because the site's list is not always what we want.
I got the same thing as @janggernaut found when I search for something I want, but fortunately, I don't do anything, so I think I can avoid something worst that might happen.
It is better to search for the gambling site from here, especially if it is related to cryptocurrency.
We have many reputable gambling sites and recommend by many members here so that we can avoid scamming.
Thank you, @OP.

[imstillthebest]

Shouldn't it be obvious to anyone looking to gamble there not to go to a site called "bastabit"? Seriously, you have to be really light-headed to miss that typo because you can even see it on your phone's top bar, it's not like they're using obfuscated punycode.

Also an adblocker will trivially solve this problem, you can even get Adblock Plus for Google Chrome and Safari on mobile last time I checked.

i hardly noticed it . i take a cloose look one more time on the screenies that op shared and finally found the mistake .
 it was also obvious for a gambler that have already heard of this site but for new comers or to those that already heard of it before and forgot it ,  if they decide to comeback they will search it on google because they forgot the exact link .
 i dont use bustabit but it serves me as a warning because i was lazy to bookmark the site that visit and i search them on google because of too much lazyness .