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Bericht öffnen“National Crypto Helpline — Recover Funds Lost to Crypto Fraud”
The sent-report ledger records the first outgoing report at .
The recorded recipient is abuse@spaceship.com.
The latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable; 1 month has elapsed since the first outgoing report.
ICANN RAA §3.18 describes registrar abuse-contact and handling obligations. This section records outgoing timestamps, listed recipients, case identifiers, and later availability. It does not by itself prove receipt, acknowledgement, investigation, remediation, or contractual non-compliance.
Phishing: wintergatelegal.com — Letzter bekanntermaßen aktiv (HTTP 200). Zusammenfassung der Beweislage: VirusTotal 9/91 (alphaMountain.ai, Bfore.Ai PreCrime…
Die ausführliche Analyse von PhishDestroy AI bleibt auf Englisch, damit der ursprüngliche forensische Bericht unverändert bleibt.
9 / 91 engine detections
Bericht öffnen2 threat-system alerts
Bericht öffnenDBL_PHISH
4 community references
Bericht öffnenprovider verdict: clean
Bericht öffnenNo threat flag
Bericht öffnenNo malicious flag
Bericht öffnenResults reflect each source’s collection time. Zero detections do not guarantee safety. OTX references are community publications.
PhishDestroy threat report
wintergatelegal.com presents itself as the "National Crypto Helpline — Recover Funds Lost to Crypto Fraud" under a name styled like a law firm. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page. It targets people who have already been scammed, offering them a path back to their money. We first flagged it on 2026-09-17, and the site was still online with its content live on 2026-10-19.
This is a recovery scam. A victim searching for help after a theft finds what looks like an official helpline or legal service and is told their funds can be traced and returned. The catch usually follows quickly: an upfront retainer, a "tracing fee", taxes or release charges, sometimes paid in crypto. These schemes often also ask for identity documents, exchange logins or wallet seed phrases. The victim loses money a second time, and anything they hand over can be used for further theft or identity fraud.
Nine of 91 engines on VirusTotal flagged the domain as of 2026-09-29, including ESET, Kaspersky, Fortinet, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, CRDF, Gridinsoft, alphaMountain.ai and Bfore.Ai PreCrime. That count is modest, but several established vendors agree. Spamhaus lists it in its domain blocklist as phishing (DBL_PHISH), and it is blocked by MetaMask and SEAL alongside PhishDestroy. Four AlienVault OTX threat pulses reference it, so other researchers are tracking it as well.
The domain was registered on 2026-09-05 through Spaceship, Inc., just 12 days before we detected it. A brand-new domain posing as an established national helpline is a strong red flag on its own. It is hosted on DigitalOcean, LLC servers in the US and uses a free Let's Encrypt certificate, so the padlock in the browser says nothing about whether the service is legitimate.
If you contacted this site, stop all payments. Real recovery services and authorities do not demand upfront fees to return stolen crypto. If you already paid by card or bank transfer, contact your bank immediately to dispute it. Report the original theft and this contact to your police and national fraud reporting body. If you shared ID documents, watch for identity misuse. If you gave out a seed phrase or exchange login, move your remaining funds to a new wallet and change passwords and 2FA. Uninstall any remote-access software they had you install. Defenders should block the domain and its DBL_PHISH listing at mail and web gateways, and warn fraud-victim support channels about fake helpline recovery offers.
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Google PageSpeed Insights — mobile performance audit of wintergatelegal.com · checked Sep 17, 2026
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4 community references
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View sourcePD-20260917-0C96F0 Recipient: abuse@spaceship.com Wenn Sie Kontoanmeldeinformationen, persönliche oder Zahlungsinformationen eingegeben oder eine Datei von dieser Domain heruntergeladen haben, ergreifen Sie sofort Maßnahmen. Nachfolgend finden Sie Ressourcen, die Ihnen helfen, den Vorfall zu melden und sich zu schützen.
Wählen Sie Ihr Land aus, um Offizielle Kontakte im Bereich Cyberkriminalität oder einen Beschwerdeentwurf erstellen → zu erhalten.
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Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
wintergatelegal.com)Auch wenn dir nicht alle Details bekannt sind — trotzdem Anzeige erstatten. Auch unvollständige Informationen sind für die Ermittlungen hilfreich.
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
Further guidance: NIST · phishing responseFBI IC3 · reports & evidenceFTC · recovery scams
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This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
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