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@cosmotown.com.
The latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable; 28 days 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.
trinityfellowshipaddis.org presents itself as "Trinity Fellowship Addis Ababa" and borrows the name and identity of that fellowship to win the trust of its members, supporters and anyone searching for it. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page and first flagged it on 2026-09-23. As of 2026-10-19 the domain was still live and redirecting visitors elsewhere, so it remains an active risk.
How the scam works
Impersonation pages copy the look and name of a trusted organisation, here a faith community, so that visitors lower their guard. Once trust is established, these sites typically ask for personal details, login credentials or payments presented as donations, offerings or membership fees, and that money or data goes to the operators instead of the real fellowship. The redirect means the page a visitor finally lands on can be swapped at any time, so what one person sees may differ from what the next person is shown.
Evidence
Seventeen of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as of 2026-10-02. The vendors include BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, alphaMountain.ai, CyRadar and the Vietnamese anti-scam group Chong Lua Dao. Agreement across that many unrelated vendors makes a false positive unlikely. The domain also appears in five AlienVault OTX threat pulses, meaning other researchers have tied it to malicious activity, and it is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-02-24 through TuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown, roughly seven months before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests the name was held quietly before being put to use. It resolves to 216.198.79.1 on Amazon.com, Inc. infrastructure in the US. Its Let's Encrypt certificate gives the site a padlock icon, which shows only that the connection is encrypted and says nothing about who runs the page.
What to do
If you sent money through this site believing it was a donation or fee to Trinity Fellowship, contact your bank or payment provider right away to dispute the charge. Confirm any request directly with the fellowship through contact details you already know. If you entered a password, change it everywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication. Watch for follow-up messages that use your details to look convincing. Defenders should block the domain and its IP at DNS and proxy level, and the genuine fellowship should warn its community about the lookalike.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Latest HTTP observationRedirectingHTTP redirect observed80%2026-10-21 10:34:59 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-21 02:20:38 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.
Recorded subdomains1
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
www.trinityfellowshipaddis.orgDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
使用技術 · 2 identified
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PaaS
Vercel is a cloud platform for static frontends and serverless functions.
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.
