ashleymadison-usa.com posed as Ashley Madison, the married-dating service, under the page title "Ashley Madison - Married Dating and Emotional Needs". The "-usa" suffix is meant to look like an official regional version of the brand. It targeted people looking for a discreet affair platform, an audience that is unusually reluctant to report fraud. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-02. The site has been offline since 2026-10-10, its content blocked by the provider, and it was still down at the last check on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Fake dating-brand pages copy the real site's look and ask visitors to sign up or log in, collecting email addresses, passwords and often card details for a "membership" or "credits". On an Ashley Madison lookalike, the stolen data carries an extra danger. Proof that someone tried to join an affair site can be used for blackmail and sextortion, and the credentials themselves can be resold or tried on other accounts. Victims risk losing payment money, account access and their privacy.
Evidence
On 2026-09-16, six of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, PhishFort, SOCRadar and VIPRE. PhishFort specialises in brand-impersonation takedowns, so its detection directly supports the classification. Coverage is modest overall, and PhishDestroy is the only blocklist carrying it. The domain also appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which shows other researchers have tracked it.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2025-06-27 through Spaceship, Inc., more than a year before PhishDestroy detected it. That long gap suggests it was either held in reserve or operated quietly before drawing attention. Traffic ran through Cloudflare, so the listed Canadian address belongs to Cloudflare's edge network and hides the real origin server. The Google Trust Services certificate gave the page a normal padlock, which says nothing about whether the site was genuine.
What to do
If you signed up or logged in here, change the password on your real Ashley Madison account and anywhere else you used the same one, and turn on two-factor authentication. If you entered card details, ask your bank to block the card and dispute any charges. If anyone contacts you threatening to expose your activity, do not pay. Keep the messages and report them to the police. Defenders should block the domain and watch for similar brand-plus-country lookalikes of dating services.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
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Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
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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