usdc026.com is an impersonation phishing page whose domain borrows the USDC stablecoin name, followed by a numeric suffix that suggests a mass-produced series of lookalike domains. It targets people holding or looking to use USDC, presenting itself as something connected to the stablecoin when it is not. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-10-09, and as of 2026-10-19 the site was still online and serving content.
How the scam works
Sites like this rely on a trusted brand to make visitors drop their guard. They then push the visitor to hand over value or control, through a token "claim" or reward, a deposit or staking offer, a wallet connection, or a login form. The browser tab shows only "Home", a generic label that reveals nothing about the page's purpose, which is typical of quickly assembled impersonation pages. Depending on the lure, victims can lose USDC or other tokens sent to the operators, or lose control of a wallet or account whose access they entered.
Evidence
On 2026-10-17, VirusTotal showed 6 of 92 engines flagging the domain: CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, LevelBlue, SOCRadar and VIPRE. That is a low share of engines, but these are independent vendors reaching the same verdict, and most engines give no verdict at all on new phishing pages. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which means other researchers are tracking it. Among blocklists, it is currently listed by PhishDestroy.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Gname.com Pte. Ltd. on 2025-12-29, roughly nine months before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap points to a name held in reserve or used quietly before this campaign surfaced. Traffic passes through Cloudflare (address in Canada), which hides the real origin server from visitors and researchers. The HTTPS padlock comes from a standard Google Trust Services certificate, so it says nothing about whether the site is legitimate.
What to do
Do not send any USDC or other funds to this site, and do not act on any "claim", bonus or fee request it shows. If you connected a wallet, revoke any token approvals granted during that session. If you signed anything or typed a seed phrase, move your assets to a newly created wallet immediately. If you entered a password, change it everywhere you reused it and enable 2FA. Security teams should block usdc026.com at DNS and proxy level and watch for sibling domains that follow the same usdc-plus-number naming pattern.
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 22:40:58 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:40:58 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:40:58 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.usdc026.comDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
使用技術 · 4 identified
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HSTS
セキュリティ
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) informs browsers that the site should only be accessed using HTTPS.
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
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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