ABUSE NOTICE · 72H+ 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 domainabuse@tucows.com.
The latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable; 6 days 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.
mercatolibero.org is a suspicious domain on the PhishDestroy blocklist. Its name is Italian for "free market," but no specific impersonated brand or target has been confirmed. PhishDestroy first saw it on 2026-10-14, one week after registration. As of 2026-10-19 the site is still online, with its content behind a protection layer.
How the scam works
Visitors land on a page titled "Just a moment...", the standard browser-check screen shown before content loads, so the title reveals nothing about what sits behind it. That neutral title contrasts with our blocklisting and with the vendor detections listed below. Newly registered, marketplace-sounding domains flagged by several engines often lead to pages that ask for logins, payments or wallet access. The concrete risk is handing over credentials, personal details or money to an operator with no track record.
Evidence
On 2026-10-18, 6 of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain: alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar and VIPRE. That is a modest count, but it comes from six unrelated vendors within days of the domain's creation. AlienVault OTX links the domain to four threat pulses, so other analysts have tied it to tracked activity. PhishDestroy is the only blocklist in this report that lists it.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through TUCOWS.COM, CO. on 2026-10-07 and was detected seven days later. A domain that draws vendor flags this quickly fits a short-lived operation. It resolves to Cloudflare, Inc. address space located in Canada, so the real origin server is hidden behind the proxy. Its free Let's Encrypt certificate means the padlock in the browser shows only that the connection is encrypted, not that the site is legitimate.
What to do
Do not enter passwords, personal data or payment details on this site, and do not send it any funds. If you already typed a password there, change it everywhere you reuse it and turn on two-factor authentication. If you paid through the site, contact your bank or payment provider right away and keep any receipts or messages. Defenders should block the domain at DNS and proxy level and check logs for earlier visits. Abuse reports to Cloudflare and Tucows can help get the site taken down.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeReachable but protectedreason: Cloudflare Challenge85% confidence
AttributionCloudflaremechanism: Challengesource: Current Http Probe
Evidence layersAvailability: Reachable but protectedContent: UnknownDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observationReachable but protectedCloudflare ChallengeCloudflareChallenge85%2026-10-19 22:35:23 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:23 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.
使用技術 · 2 identified
Cloudflare
CDN
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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