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@namecheap.com.
The latest stored availability evidence still shows the domain reachable; 26 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.
vertvactbca.site poses as the OECD and presents itself as the page for the "Global Forum on Productivity 2024, 15-16 October, Paris, France." It targets economists, civil servants, researchers and anyone expecting an invitation to an OECD event. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-23. As of 2026-10-19 the domain still resolves, but its content no longer loads.
How the scam works
Fake conference pages trade on the credibility of a real institution. Visitors arrive through invitation-style emails or messages and are asked to register, confirm attendance or log in to receive event materials. The forms on such pages typically collect names, organisations, email addresses and passwords, and sometimes ask for registration or accreditation fees that never reach the real organiser. The forum named in the page title is dated 2024, while the domain was only created in 2026, so the lure reuses an event that had already taken place.
Evidence
18 of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as of 2026-10-03, including BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, CyRadar and Chong Lua Dao. These vendors work independently, so their agreement supports the impersonation verdict. The domain also appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which means other analysts have tracked it as well. Among blocklists, it is currently listed by PhishDestroy.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Namecheap on 2026-07-14, about ten weeks before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap is consistent with a domain registered in advance and activated later for a campaign. Traffic passes through Cloudflare, with the address geolocating to Canada, so the real origin server stays hidden behind the proxy. The meaningless string vertvactbca has no connection to the OECD, which is a clear sign the domain is not official.
What to do
If you filled in a form on this site, change the password you entered and every other account that uses it, then turn on two-factor authentication. Warn your organisation's security team, because event lures often target institutional email accounts. If you paid a registration or attendance fee, contact your bank or card issuer to dispute the charge. Treat any follow-up messages that mention this forum as suspicious, and confirm OECD events only through the organisation's official website. Defenders should block the domain at mail and web gateways and search inbound mail for OECD-themed invitations that link to unrelated domains.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年10月9日score 98/1007 brand signals
Submitted URLhttp://vertvactbca.site/
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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.
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
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.
