qwlqlw.com is an impersonation phishing page dressed up as Blackwell's, the bookseller, under the page title "Blackwell's, books for life and for learning Blackwell's". It targets people shopping for books or study materials who expect to be on the retailer's real site. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-18. The site went offline on 2026-09-19, and its DNS was still inactive when we last checked on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
The page copies the familiar Blackwell's name and tagline so that a visitor arriving from a link in an email, ad or message assumes they are on the genuine bookshop. A meaningless string like qwlqlw.com in the address bar is often the only sign that something is wrong. Retail impersonation pages of this kind typically ask the visitor to sign in or check out. Whatever account passwords, card numbers, billing addresses and email details the visitor types in go to the operators rather than the retailer.
Evidence
Sixteen of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain on 2026-09-19, the day after our first sighting. They include established vendors such as BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker and G-Data, along with alphaMountain.ai, Chong Lua Dao and Ermes. Agreement across that many independent engines is solid backing for the impersonation verdict. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses and is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Namecheap on 2026-02-17, about seven months before it was caught impersonating Blackwell's. A domain that sits unused for months before going live is a common way to slip past filters that distrust newly created domains. The site sat behind Cloudflare, with the edge address geolocated to Canada, which hides the real origin server. Its certificate came from Google Trust Services, so the padlock icon meant nothing about whether the site was genuine.
What to do
If you signed in on this page, change your Blackwell's password immediately, along with any other account that uses the same password, and turn on two-factor authentication where it is offered. If you entered card details, contact your bank to cancel the card and dispute any charges you do not recognise. Expect follow-up phishing to the email address you gave, and treat "order problem" or "payment failed" messages with suspicion. Defenders should block qwlqlw.com at DNS and proxy level and search mail logs for messages linking to it. Users who clicked should be prompted to reset their credentials.
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 01:00:16 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-18 21:02:06 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-18 21:02:06 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 283.21hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-24 18:38:30 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 · 4 identified
Google Tag Manager
Tag managers
Google Tag Manager is a tag management system (TMS) that allows you to quickly and easily update measurement codes and related code fragments collectively known as tags on your website or mobile app.
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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