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@namecheap.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.
misty-forest.com is an impersonation phishing page that presented itself under the Polish title "misty-forest | Sztuka Wielkich Ogłoszeń" ("The Art of Great Announcements"), which suggests it targeted Polish-speaking visitors. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-13, and it went offline on 2026-09-16, only three days later. As of 2026-10-19 the site is dead and its content is blocked by the provider. The title reads like an advertising or announcements service, while our classification is impersonation phishing.
How the scam works
Impersonation pages borrow the look, name or tone of a service people already trust so that the visit feels routine. Once the visitor accepts the page as genuine, it asks for something valuable, typically login credentials, personal details or payment information. Those details go straight to the operators, who can use them to take over accounts or commit further fraud. A harmless-sounding title like an announcements service helps lower the visitor's guard before the request appears.
Evidence
On 2026-09-13, 18 of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain. Detections came from ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, CRDF, CyRadar, ESET and Forcepoint ThreatSeeker. That is a solid level of agreement for a site this new, and it comes from a mix of commercial antivirus vendors and community anti-phishing projects. The domain also appears in one AlienVault OTX threat pulse and on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Namecheap on 2026-06-01, about 104 days before it surfaced as a phishing page. A domain that sits for months before use often lets operators avoid the suspicion attached to freshly registered names. The site sat behind Cloudflare's network, which resolved to Canada, and that kind of setup hides where the real server is. Its certificate came from Google Trust Services, so the browser padlock showed nothing about whether the site was legitimate.
What to do
If you entered a password on this site, change it immediately, along with the password on any other account that shares it. Turn on two-factor authentication wherever you can. If you submitted card or banking details, contact your bank to block the card and dispute any charges you don't recognize. Watch for follow-up emails or messages that refer to this site, because stolen contact details are often reused for further phishing. Defenders should block the domain at DNS and proxy level and search their logs for visits between 2026-09-13 and 2026-09-16.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
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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