ABUSE NOTICE · 7D+ OPEN
Outgoing abuse reports are recorded; the latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable.
Notification and current-status evidence
The sent-report ledger records the first outgoing report at .
The recorded recipient is abuse@rashost.com.
The latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable; 7 days 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.
benchshop.shop is a fake online shop posing as the official store of the clothing brand Bench. Its German page title, "Offizieller Bench Onlineshop | Bencd", aims it at German-speaking shoppers, and the misspelled brand name at the end is the kind of slip a genuine retailer would not make. PhishDestroy first saw the site on 2026-10-13. It was still online and serving its storefront on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Shops like this copy a familiar brand's look and list its products at prices well below retail to push quick purchases. At checkout, the buyer pays by card or another method and hands over their name, address and payment details. Typically, the order never arrives, or something cheap and unrelated shows up instead. The victim loses the money paid, and the card data can be reused for further fraud.
Evidence
On 2026-10-18, 10 of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain, including alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data and Gridinsoft. That count is modest, but it comes from several independent vendors that agree on the verdict. urlscan.io rated the site malicious and specifically identified it as a fake shop. The domain also appears in three AlienVault OTX threat pulses and on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc. on 2026-05-25, almost five months before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests it was either kept in reserve or ran unnoticed for a while. The site is hosted at 188.244.119.52 on the Malakmadze Web LLC network in Georgia, far from any official Bench retail presence. It uses a free Let's Encrypt certificate, so the padlock in the browser says nothing about whether the shop is legitimate.
What to do
If you ordered from this site, contact your bank or card issuer right away to dispute the charge and request a chargeback, and ask for a replacement card if you entered card details. Keep screenshots, order confirmations and any emails as evidence, and report the purchase to your national consumer protection or cybercrime authority. Expect phishing or follow-up scam messages at the email address and phone number you gave the shop. Security teams should block the domain and its hosting IP, and brand-protection staff at Bench can use these details to file takedown requests.
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.
Accreditation is a contract, not a safety certification.
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.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Evidence layersAvailability: Content servingContent: Content served at rootDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observationコンテンツ公開中Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-19 22:43:55 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:43:55 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:43:55 UTC
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
使用技術 · 1 identified
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HTTP/3
Miscellaneous
HTTP/3 is the third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange information on the World Wide Web.
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.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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