etherio.online presents itself as "CrestaG — Premium Web3 Card," a crypto payment card offer aimed at users who want to spend digital assets like cash. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page and first flagged it on 2026-09-01. As of 2026-10-19 the site was still online and serving its content. The domain name has nothing to do with the CrestaG brand shown on the page.
How the scam works
Fake Web3 card portals borrow the look of a card product to win trust, then ask visitors to sign up, connect a wallet, or pay an issuance or activation fee in crypto. Schemes like this often also collect identity details under the pretext of card verification. Money sent for a card that never arrives cannot be recovered. Personal data and wallet permissions handed over on the page can be reused for further theft.
Evidence
VirusTotal shows 3 of 92 engines flagging the domain as of 2026-10-16: alphaMountain.ai, Gridinsoft and SOCRadar. That is a low count, so most scanners will still let this site through. Two specialist blocklists list it: PhishDestroy and the crypto-focused ScamSniffer. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which means other analysts have independently tied it to malicious activity.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through NAMECHEAP INC on 2026-08-12, only 20 days before PhishDestroy detected it. That short gap is typical of throwaway domains set up for a single campaign. The site resolves to 188.114.96.3 on Cloudflare's network, geolocated to Canada. Because Cloudflare acts as a proxy, that address belongs to Cloudflare rather than the server that actually hosts the page.
What to do
Do not pay any card, activation or shipping fee on etherio.online, and treat any crypto already sent as lost. If you connected a wallet, revoke the approvals granted to unfamiliar contracts with a token-approval manager, and move your funds to a fresh wallet if you signed anything you did not understand. If you submitted ID documents or personal details, watch for targeted follow-up messages and identity misuse. If you reused a password there, change it everywhere you used it. Defenders should block the domain at DNS and proxy level and report it to Cloudflare and the registrar so it can be taken down.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年10月9日score 81/1006 brand signals
Submitted URLhttp://etherio.online/
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.
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 22:29:26 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:32 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:29:26 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 · 3 identified
Cloudflare Browser Insights
AnalyticsRUM
Cloudflare Browser Insights is a tool that measures the performance of websites from the perspective of users.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
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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