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@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.
eastmerelegal.com poses as a legal or official support service under the banner "National Crypto Helpline — Recover Funds Lost to Crypto Fraud." It targets people who have already lost money to crypto scams and are searching for a way to get it back. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-17. As of 2026-10-19 the site was still online with its content live.
How the scam works
This is a recovery scam, a second-wave fraud aimed at existing victims. The page borrows the language of a national helpline and a law firm to suggest authority. Visitors are invited to file a case. The operators then typically promise to trace and reclaim the stolen crypto, and ask for upfront charges billed as legal fees, tracing costs, taxes or release payments. They may also request identity documents, wallet details or remote access to the victim's device. No funds are ever recovered. The victim loses whatever they pay and may hand over personal data that gets reused in further fraud.
Evidence
Nine of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain on 2026-09-29. The detecting vendors include alphaMountain.ai, Bfore.Ai PreCrime, CRDF, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Gridinsoft and Kaspersky. The count is modest, but these are independent vendors reaching the same verdict. Spamhaus lists it in its DBL as phishing. MetaMask and SEAL block it alongside PhishDestroy, and four AlienVault OTX threat pulses reference it, so the domain is tracked across several intelligence communities.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-09-05 through Spaceship, Inc. It was already being flagged twelve days later, a fast turnaround that is typical of throwaway domains spun up for a single campaign. The site runs on DigitalOcean cloud hosting in the United States. Its padlock comes from a free Let's Encrypt certificate, which encrypts the connection but says nothing about who runs the site.
What to do
Do not pay any fee, tax or deposit this site or its contacts request. Paying once usually triggers demands for more. If you already paid, contact your bank or card issuer at once to dispute the charge, and report the loss to your national police or fraud reporting authority. Genuine help comes from those authorities, not from services that cold-pitch recovery. If you sent ID documents, watch for identity misuse and consider a credit freeze. If you installed remote-access software at their request, uninstall it and change the passwords on your email, banking and exchange accounts, enabling 2FA where available. Defenders should block the domain and watch for lookalike recovery sites using similar helpline or law-firm branding.
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 22:24:47 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:32 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:24:47 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 · 5 identified
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Sentry
Issue trackers
Sentry is an open-source platform for workflow productivity, aggregating errors from across the stack in real time.
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.
