richmondzux.shop presents itself as a legitimate cryptocurrency exchange under the brand name Richmondzux, marketing itself as a premium AI-powered trading platform. It targets retail crypto investors and traders looking for automated or AI-assisted trading services. PhishDestroy first identified this site on 2026-09-18, and as of 2026-10-19 the site remains fully live and serving content.
How the scam works
Fake exchange platforms like this one lure victims by offering the appearance of a professional, authorized trading environment — in this case reinforced by the page title 'Richmondzux | a premium AI trading | Authorized Platform.' Users are typically prompted to create an account, deposit cryptocurrency or fiat funds, and watch fabricated balance displays that show artificial gains. When victims attempt to withdraw, they are blocked, charged invented fees, or simply cut off entirely, losing everything they deposited.
Evidence
Fourteen of 91 engines on VirusTotal flagged richmondzux.shop as malicious as of 2026-09-29, with detections from BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, Gridinsoft, CRDF, and alphaMountain.ai. Four threat intelligence pulses on OTX independently corroborate the classification. The domain is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-08-02 through Dynadot Inc. and appeared in threat feeds less than seven weeks later, a pattern consistent with short-lifecycle fraud infrastructure. The site is hosted on Cloudflare's network with a Canadian-geolocated IP and uses a TLS certificate issued by Google Trust Services under the WE1 intermediate.
What to do
If you visited the site but did not register or deposit funds, no immediate action is required beyond avoiding any further interaction. If you created an account or transferred any cryptocurrency or payment details to this platform, treat those funds as unrecoverable and report the incident to your national cybercrime authority and your payment provider or exchange immediately. Do not respond to any follow-up contact from operators claiming to facilitate withdrawals, as these are typically secondary recovery scams. Security teams should block richmondzux.shop at the DNS and proxy layer and add the associated Cloudflare IP to monitoring watchlists.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年9月19日score 98/1001 brand signal
Submitted URLhttp://richmondzux.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 22:32:01 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:37 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 · 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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