sophies.hostel.town presents itself as the website of Sophie's Hostel Prague, using the page title "Sophie'S Hostel Prague - Prague, Czech Republic". PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page aimed at travellers looking to book accommodation in Prague. We first detected it on 2026-09-29. The site was still online and serving its content when last checked on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Fake accommodation sites copy the name and look of a real property so that a guest searching for it lands on the fraudster's page instead. The visitor is then pushed to secure a room by entering card details or paying a deposit directly, often by bank transfer or another hard-to-reverse method. The victim loses the payment, has no reservation, and may hand over card data and personal details that can be reused for further fraud. The odd capitalisation in the title, "Sophie'S", is the kind of small error copied pages often carry.
Evidence
On 2026-10-01, 16 of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as malicious. The vendors flagging it include alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data and Gridinsoft. Because these are independent vendors with separate detection pipelines, their agreement supports the classification. The domain is on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-04-21 through Spaceship, Inc., about five months before we detected it. That gap suggests it was set up well in advance or ran unnoticed for a while. It resolves to an address on the RouterHosting LLC network in the United States, which has no obvious link to a Prague hostel. The site uses a free domain-validated certificate from ZeroSSL, so the browser padlock only confirms an encrypted connection and says nothing about who runs the site.
What to do
If you entered card details or paid a deposit on this site, contact your bank or card issuer at once to block the card and dispute the charge. Then reach the real hostel through an independent channel or a trusted booking platform to check whether any booking exists. If you created an account there and reused that password elsewhere, change it and turn on two-factor authentication. Be alert for follow-up emails or calls that use your details. Defenders and booking platforms should block the domain and report it to the hosting network and registrar so it can be taken down.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年10月9日score 88/1002 brand signals
Submitted URLhttp://sophies.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 fingerprintbe7695375cb6c7ca5a2ee3b931d7060dd0e5efaf68a763b04b02f811b24b86afCertificate 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 22:32:36 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:38 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:32:36 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.
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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
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