facebooknotify-noreply.com is an impersonation phishing domain dressed up as Facebook's automated notification system. The "notify" and "noreply" wording copies the sender style of genuine platform alerts, which targets Facebook users and the people who manage business pages and ad accounts. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-18. The site has been offline since 2026-09-22, and DNS for the domain was still inactive at the last check on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Schemes like this usually start with a message that looks like a routine Facebook alert, such as a policy violation, a security warning or a page-restriction notice, and push the recipient to act quickly. The link leads to a page styled after Facebook that asks for an email or phone number, the password and often a two-factor code. Anyone who completes the form gives the operators enough to take over the account. A hijacked account can then be used to message contacts, run fraudulent ads or spread the same lure further.
Evidence
On 2026-09-21, VirusTotal showed 14 of 89 engines flagging the domain. They included alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, ESET, Emsisoft, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data and Google Safe Browsing. Google Safe Browsing specifically lists it under SOCIAL_ENGINEERING, its category for deceptive pages that impersonate trusted services. The domain appears in three AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which means other researchers have tracked it independently, and it is on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Cloudflare, Inc. on 2026-06-19, about three months before PhishDestroy detected it. That kind of gap is typical of domains registered early and held until a campaign is ready. It resolved to 216.198.79.65, an address in the United States. The site used a free Let's Encrypt certificate, so the padlock in the browser only meant the connection was encrypted and said nothing about whether Facebook was behind it.
What to do
If you entered your Facebook password on this site, change it right away. Change it anywhere else you reused it too. Then review active sessions in Facebook's security settings and log out any device you don't recognize. Turn on two-factor authentication with an authenticator app, and check whether your recovery email, phone number and page or ad-account admins have been changed. Defenders should block the domain and IP at mail and web gateways and search mail logs for messages that link to it. Users should also be reminded that real Facebook alerts can be checked inside the app or the official site instead of through emailed links.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeDNS 非アクティブreason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation不明Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-19 01:16:01 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-21 10:01:38 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-21 10:01:38 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 222.22hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-26 01:08:16 UTC · precision low · basis bounded
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 · 7 identified
Google Sign-in
Authentication
Google Sign-In is a secure authentication system that reduces the burden of login for users, by enabling them to sign in with their Google account.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud services platform offering compute power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality.
PayPal is an online payments system that supports online money transfers and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods like checks and money orders.
Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a service offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides object storage through a web service interface.
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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