wrencapstead.shop presents itself as the "Wrencapstead | AI Trading Platform | Official Website". PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page aimed at people looking for automated crypto trading and quick returns. We first flagged it on 2026-09-19. As of 2026-10-19 the site was still online and serving its content, so it remains a live risk.
How the scam works
Sites in this category borrow the look of a polished trading service. They promise AI-driven profits and insist on being the "official website" so visitors trust them over any warnings they find elsewhere. Victims are usually pushed to register, hand over personal details and fund an account with crypto. A dashboard then shows growing gains that exist only on screen. When someone tries to cash out, new obstacles appear, such as fees, taxes or verification deposits, and the money already sent is not recoverable.
Evidence
On 2026-09-29, 14 of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain, including alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, G-Data and Gridinsoft. Those are independent vendors reaching the same verdict, and their detections mean many browsers and security suites already warn or block. The domain also appears in five AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which shows other researchers are tracking it. PhishDestroy's own blocklist is the only list confirmed to carry it so far.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Spaceship, Inc. on 2026-03-19, exactly six months before we detected it. That long gap suggests the operators let it age quietly before pushing traffic to it. It sits behind Cloudflare, with the visible address resolving to Canada. That address belongs to Cloudflare's proxy, not to the operators' real server. The ZeroSSL domain-validated certificate is free and issued automatically, so the browser padlock says nothing about who runs the site.
What to do
Do not deposit anything, and do not pay any "withdrawal fee" or "tax" to release a balance shown on this platform. If you already sent crypto, stop all further payments and keep the transaction hashes, account screenshots and chats. Report the theft to your local police and to the exchange you sent the funds from. If you reused the password you registered with, change it everywhere it was used and turn on two-factor authentication. Treat anyone who later offers to recover your funds for a fee as a second scam. Defenders should block wrencapstead.shop at DNS and proxy level and watch for lookalike domains using the Wrencapstead name.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年9月20日score 98/1001 brand signal
Submitted URLhttp://wrencapstead.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 22:33:14 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:40 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:33:14 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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CDN
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
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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