dropsearns.store is on the PhishDestroy blocklist. Its page title is "H-E-B - Claim Your Gift Card", so it borrows the name of the Texas grocery chain to draw in shoppers who think they have won or been sent a reward. PhishDestroy first saw it on 2026-10-07. On 2026-10-19 the domain was still alive and redirected visitors elsewhere instead of serving its own page.
How the scam works
The title presents the site as a place to claim an H-E-B gift card, but the domain name has no connection to the retailer. Unsolicited gift card claim pages like this usually serve as entry points. Visitors are pushed through redirects toward surveys, prize forms or checkout pages. Those pages can ask for names, phone numbers, addresses or payment card details for a small "shipping" or "verification" charge. Because this domain currently redirects, the real risk sits on whatever page it forwards visitors to. Anything typed there should be treated as exposed.
Evidence
On 2026-10-19, 6 of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar and VIPRE. That is a minority of engines, but six independent vendors agreeing is a meaningful signal for a site this young. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses. Among blocklists, only PhishDestroy lists it so far.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-10-04 through HOSTINGER operations, UAB, and PhishDestroy flagged it just three days later. That short gap fits a disposable domain created for one campaign. It resolves to an address on Amazon's network (AS16509) in the United States. That setup is cheap and quick to replace if the domain is taken down.
What to do
If you reached this site from a text, email or social post promising an H-E-B gift card, close it and do not complete any survey or form it leads to. If you entered payment card details, contact your bank to block the card and dispute any charges. Watch for small test transactions or unexpected recurring billing. If you gave out your phone number or address, expect follow-up scam calls and texts, and do not trust messages claiming to come from H-E-B about a prize. Security teams should block dropsearns.store and the destinations it redirects to, and treat lookalike gift card lures as phishing indicators.
登録情報作成日 2026年10月4日 (15d · Very New!)—Expires 2027年10月4日
HTTPステータス308 Permanent Redirect
技術詳細Provenance & timestamps
初確認2026年10月7日
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年10月9日score 93/100
Submitted URLhttp://dropsearns.store/
Favicon Hash
ICANN OVERSIGHT
認定と RAA の背景
Registrar accreditation and DNS abuse obligations
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.
Latest HTTP observationRedirectingHTTP redirect observed80%2026-10-19 22:39:23 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:39:23 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.
脅威情報の照合 · source references
ScamAdviserPublic lookup
A public ScamAdviser lookup is available. Review its current score and warnings at the source; the existence of a lookup page is not itself a malicious verdict.
Live-fetched via CF worker proxy pool · cached 24h
Recorded subdomains1
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
www.dropsearns.storeDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
使用技術 · 2 identified
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Vercel
PaaS
Vercel is a cloud platform for static frontends and serverless functions.
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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