orange3.hostel.town presents itself as the website of Orange3 Hostel Lagos, a hostel in Lagos, Portugal. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page aimed at travelers who search for the hostel and land on this lookalike instead of the real property or a trusted booking platform. We first flagged it on 2026-09-25. As of 2026-10-19 the site was still online and serving content.
How the scam works
The page title, "Orange3 Hostel Lagos - Lagos, Portugal", is built to look like an official listing, so a traveler comparing options has little reason to doubt it. Fake accommodation sites like this usually take a booking and then ask for card details, a deposit or a bank transfer to "confirm" the reservation. The guest loses that payment and may find on arrival that no reservation exists. Any card data typed into the form can also be reused for further fraud.
Evidence
On 2026-10-07, 17 of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain. That is a solid minority verdict for a page that superficially looks like an ordinary hotel site. The vendors include alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data and Gridinsoft. PhishDestroy lists it on its own blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-04-21 through Spaceship, Inc., about five months before we detected it. It runs on a subdomain under hostel.town, a name that sounds like a generic hostel directory rather than the property's own address. The server sits on RouterHosting LLC infrastructure in the US. The free ZeroSSL certificate only means the connection is encrypted; it says nothing about whether the business behind the page is real.
What to do
If you paid a deposit or entered card details on this site, contact your bank or card issuer now. Ask them to block the card and dispute the charge, and keep any booking emails or receipts as proof. If you sent a bank transfer, report it to your bank right away, since recall windows are short. Confirm any stay directly with Orange3 Hostel through contact details you find independently, or through an established booking platform. Do not send further "confirmation" payments. Defenders and booking platforms should block orange3.hostel.town and watch for sibling subdomains under hostel.town.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年10月9日score 88/1002 brand signals
Submitted URLhttp://orange3.hostel.town/
Favicon Hash
ICANN OVERSIGHTRegistration: hostel.town
認定と RAA の背景
Registrar accreditation and DNS abuse obligations
For the registrable domain hostel.town behind this subdomain, 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.
Certificate fingerprintfe0f956260b8922e430976a74f3ef092630dbb8a215e472c5692b68090669f0bCertificate names · 1 SANs
hostel.town
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 22:32:01 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:36 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:32:01 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 · 6 identified
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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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