VirusTotal
6 / 89 engine detections
Ouvrir le rapport“How to Check Your Vanilla Gift Card Balance | Visa & Mastercard”
The sent-report ledger records the first outgoing report at .
The recorded recipient is abuse@whiteprivacy.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.
Usurpation de Mastercard: vanillabalance.online — Dernier actif connu (HTTP 200). Résumé des preuves: VirusTotal 6/89 (alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint…
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6 / 89 engine detections
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checked — no detections recorded
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Ouvrir le rapportprovider verdict: clean
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Ouvrir le rapportResults reflect each source’s collection time. Zero detections do not guarantee safety. OTX references are community publications.
PhishDestroy threat report
vanillabalance.online is an impersonation phishing page dressed up as a balance checker for Vanilla prepaid gift cards. It uses Mastercard branding, and its page title reads "How to Check Your Vanilla Gift Card Balance | Visa & Mastercard". It targets people holding prepaid gift cards who want to see what is left on them. PhishDestroy first flagged the domain on 2026-09-03, and the site was still online and serving content as of 2026-10-19.
Fake balance checkers rely on a simple step: to see your balance, you type in the full card number, expiration date and security code, sometimes with a PIN or ZIP code. Prepaid gift cards carry no name or bank login. Anyone who has those details can spend the card online right away, so the balance is usually gone within minutes of submission. The page title mentions both Visa and Mastercard, while we classified the site as Mastercard impersonation. Victims lose whatever value was on the card, along with any personal details the form collected.
Spamhaus lists the domain in its DBL under the phishing category, which is a strong signal that filtering infrastructure treats it as malicious. VirusTotal returned 6 detections out of 89 engines on 2026-09-11, from alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft and SOCRadar. That count is modest, so many security tools may still let the page through. The domain also appears in 5 AlienVault OTX threat pulses and on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
The domain was registered on 2026-01-08 through Global Domain Group LLC, almost eight months before PhishDestroy detected it. A gap like that fits a domain held in reserve or one that ran quietly before being reported. It resolves to an address on the NEW DHAKA HARDWARE network, located in the US. The Let's Encrypt certificate gives the page a padlock, which proves nothing about who runs it.
If you entered a gift card number, expiry date or security code here, call the issuer immediately using the phone number printed on the back of the card. Ask them to freeze the card and, where possible, issue a replacement. Keep the card and your purchase receipt, because issuers often require both before refunding any unspent balance. Check balances only through the website or phone number printed on the card itself, never through a search result or ad. Defenders should block the domain at DNS and proxy level, and retailers and card issuers can share it with fraud teams handling gift card complaints.
For this gTLD, the registrar above operates under an ICANN accreditation agreement. The links below provide the official fee schedule and current DNS abuse compliance guidance.
RAA §3.18 establishes abuse-contact and handling requirements. This report can document stored outbound notices and later technical observations; it does not by itself establish receipt, investigation, remediation, or contractual non-compliance.
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Google PageSpeed Insights — mobile performance audit of vanillabalance.online · checked Sep 3, 2026
An estimated time describes an observation window. It does not prove a registrar action or the exact moment a site became unavailable.
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alive_content: raw=ok; http=200; via=https_proxy; server=LiteSpeed
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5 community references
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View sourcePD-20260903-EF92B4
vanillabalance.online
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View sourcePD-20260903-EF92B4 Recipient: abuse@whiteprivacy.com Si vous avez saisi des informations d'identification de compte, des informations personnelles ou de paiement, ou téléchargé un fichier à partir de ce domaine, agissez immédiatement. Vous trouverez ci-dessous des ressources pour vous aider à signaler l'incident et à vous protéger.
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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 ↗
vanillabalance.online)Même si vous ne disposez pas de tous les détails — déposer quand même une plainte. Même des informations partielles peuvent aider les enquêtes.
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.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
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