HACKER Q&A
📣 gordouwarrior

Found a phishing site. Is there anyway to get it taken down?


Hello, I'm from Colombia and recently my friend got scammed out of 1'000.000 COP (roughly 250 USD) at this site: https://segurossoat.online. The scam ocurred two days ago and the site is currently still up.

I was wondering if there was anyway to get the site taken down and if there was a way to get my friend's money back.

I'd appreciate any help, thanks in advance.

  👤 coderintherye Accepted Answer ✓
Report it at: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?h...

The more people that report it, the more likely it is that at least Chrome users will get a warning when visiting it.

You could also try reporting it to the TLD owner of .online which is Radix: https://radix.website/report-abuse

👤 m-p-3
I use these paths to take it down

* Report to https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

* Report to https://www.phishtank.com (account required)

* Use a WHOIS lookup service for the hostname, find who's the registrar and submit an abuse report to them.

👤 nicbou
Report it to the hosting company. It always works for phishing copies of my website that pop up every few weeks.
👤 viraptor
Few ways:

- you can contact their hosting/DNS provider by checking the whois entry for the domain and the resolved IP

- you can report them to industry big names like Google (through safe browsing https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?h...)

- you can report them to community projects like Phishtank (they get used by opendns and others)

- you can find a local LE provided website where you can report it (not sure what your local would be but Australia has https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/ for example)

👤 jonathantf2
Try https://phish.report - although if the site is behind Cloudflare there’s basically zero chance they’ll take it down.
👤 zaphirplane
What’s the nature of the scam out of curiosity
👤 revskill
Tell HN ?