Anti-phishing · cryptocurrency
Fake crypto exchanges take your coins.
We find them and get them taken down.
abusedesk hunts the look-alike sites that impersonate real cryptocurrency brands, documents what they do, and files abuse reports backed by evidence a registrar can verify — so the domain comes down before it reaches the next victim.
The threat
Crypto phishing doesn't take a password. It takes your coins.
Sites impersonating exchanges like the ones you already trust are built to look identical — the same interface, the same badges, the same reassurance. A victim who arrives from a search ad or a message sees a real-looking exchange and sends crypto that never comes back. There's no chargeback and no reset.
Impersonation
A look-alike domain clones a trusted exchange down to the reviews badge, so the victim never doubts where they are.
Theft
A fake swap, a wallet prompt, or a redirect that monetises the victim's trust. The coins move once and don't return.
Deniability
These sites are hard to pin down and easy to dismiss as “looks fine to me.” A report has to prove what happened, not just assert it.
The report
A complaint is a legally meaningful artifact.
Nothing is invented — not an ASN, not a registrar, not an allegation. Every report ships with an immutable evidence package: full-page screenshots, the captured page, and the public-record facts, sealed under a SHA-256 listing and an RFC 3161 timestamp so the moment of capture can be proven later. Then a person reads it before it goes out.
Never fabricated. An invented registrar or a reworded accusation is an incident, not a small inaccuracy.
Irreversible steps need a human. No model, no timer, and no automated role sends a complaint or closes a case.
The report speaks the recipient's language. URLs are defanged, victim data is masked, and nothing internal reaches the desk that reads it.
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What we will and won't claim
Three outcomes that are never blurred into one.
The difference between them is the difference between a report an abuse desk acts on and one it closes as invalid.
We looked and measured nothing wrong on that point. A firm negative, stated as one.
A point we did not examine. Listed as a limitation, never dressed up as a clean result.
The material wasn't reachable. Flagged for a human — not passed off as “nothing there.”
Contact
Seen a fake exchange? Send it over.
Abuse desks, exchanges defending their brand, and anyone who spotted a crypto look-alike: reach us at the address below. Every report is reviewed by a human before anything is filed.