grokfinance-app.shop presents itself as "grok finance | AI Trading Platform | Official Website," borrowing the Grok name to look like an official AI-powered trading service. It targets people drawn to automated crypto trading and the hype around AI assistants. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-04. The site was still online and serving its content when last checked on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Fake AI trading platforms trade on a famous name and a promise of effortless returns from an algorithm. Victims are usually asked to register, often handing over email, phone and identity details, and then to fund an account. The dashboard may show steadily growing profits, but those numbers exist only on the scam's own page. When a victim tries to withdraw, new obstacles appear, such as "taxes," "verification" or "withdrawal fees," each one another payment that never unlocks the balance. The money deposited and any personal data submitted are what the victim loses.
Evidence
On 2026-09-18, VirusTotal showed 17 of 89 security engines flagging the domain. The vendors flagging it include BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, CyRadar and Chong Lua Dao. That spread across unrelated vendors makes this more than a one-off false positive. The domain appears in five AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which means other researchers have independently tracked it. Beyond PhishDestroy's own list, it has not yet shown up on other major blocklists.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Spaceship, Inc. on 2026-06-21, about ten weeks before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap is long enough for the site to be built and promoted before anyone reported it. It sits behind Cloudflare, with the address geolocated to Canada, so the real origin server is hidden from view. The certificate from Google Trust Services only shows the connection is encrypted, not that the operator is legitimate.
What to do
If you deposited funds here, stop sending money. No "withdrawal fee" or "tax" will release a balance that only exists on this site. Collect your transaction records and report the theft to your bank, payment provider or the exchange you sent crypto from, and to local police. If you created an account, change that password everywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication. Watch for follow-up "recovery service" offers, which are a common second scam. Security teams should block the domain, search mail and proxy logs for visits, and treat any site using Grok branding to sell trading returns as suspect.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年9月5日score 98/1001 brand signal
Submitted URLhttp://grokfinance-app.shop/
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 22:30:11 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:33 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:30:11 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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JSDelivr is a free public CDN for open-source projects. It can serve web files directly from the npm registry and GitHub repositories without any configuration.
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
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