capitalgrowthlim.com is an impersonation phishing site built around a fake investment company. Its name suggests a "Capital Growth" limited firm, and urlscan.io tagged it as an investment scam. It targets people looking for returns on their savings or crypto. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-26, and the site has been offline since 2026-10-14, still unreachable on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Sites like this pose as a legitimate investment firm, show invented profits on a dashboard, and push visitors to make bigger deposits, often in cryptocurrency. When victims try to withdraw, they are told to pay "taxes", "verification" or "withdrawal fees" first, and that money disappears too. The page title read "Bot Verification", which is a check screen rather than an investment front, while our classification rests on the impersonation and investment-scam signals. Victims lose their deposits and any fees they pay, and often the personal and identity details they handed over during sign-up.
Evidence
Ten of 92 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as of 2026-10-07. The vendors include BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Netcraft, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, Gridinsoft and alphaMountain.ai. That is a minority of engines, but they are well-established vendors that detect independently of each other. urlscan.io returned a malicious verdict with an investment-scam brand match. The domain appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses and on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through Dynadot Inc on 2025-11-09, more than ten months before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap suggests it was held in reserve or ran quietly before the campaign drew attention. It was hosted in the US on the Aquiryn LLC network and used a free Let's Encrypt certificate. The padlock in the browser only meant the connection was encrypted and said nothing about whether the company was real.
What to do
If you deposited money here, stop all further payments, and refuse any demand for a "withdrawal fee" or "tax" to release your balance. Report the transfers to your bank, card issuer or the exchange you sent crypto from, and file a report with local police or your national fraud agency. Expect follow-up contact from fake "fund recovery" services, which are a second scam. If you uploaded ID documents or reused a password, change that password and turn on two-factor authentication. Security teams should block the domain and its hosting IP, and look for similar "capital growth" lookalike names registered for the same scheme.
집계 기준
처음 저장된 악용사례 신고부터 콘텐츠를 사용할 수 없다는 첫 번째 관찰까지의 경과 시간입니다. 이것은 원인을 확립하지 못합니다.
각 보고서에 포함된 내용
저장된 발신 보고서 기록은 공급업체 평가, 등록 데이터, 호스팅 세부 정보, 분류 또는 스크린샷과 같이 당시 사용 가능한 증거를 참조할 수 있습니다. 이 페이지는 전달된 정확한 페이로드, 수신, 확인 또는 수신자의 작업을 추론하지 않습니다.
기술 세부 정보Provenance & timestamps
최초 발견2026년 9월 26일
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026년 10월 9일score 98/1001 brand signal
Submitted URLhttps://capitalgrowthlim.com/
Favicon Hash
사건 ID
Observed page title
Bot Verification
Automated brand references
Across
TLS 인증서
발급자 Let's Encrypt / YR2· stored validity ends in 62 days
Network & certificates
Stored technical evidence
Network & DNS
Resolved IP
23.153.104.17
Network ASN
AS32561
Organization
Aquiryn LLC
Observed location
Sheridan, US
Server header
LiteSpeed
네임서버 2
ns7.my-control-panel.com
ns8.my-control-panel.com
Mail routing 1 MX record
capitalgrowthlim.compriority 0
Location describes the IP network.
TLS 인증서
Issuer
Let's Encrypt / YR2
Valid from
2026-09-22 23:14:44
Valid until
2026-12-21 23:14:43
Hostname coverage
Certificate hostname mismatch
Validity
Within stored validity dates
Collection time
2026-09-26 16:02:03 UTC
Collection source
PhishDestroy collector
Certificate fingerprint20db54531877da28df02bbb49aaf5457d26a98938c5b1394d42edb9d36407c82Certificate names · 1 SANs
www.accounts.capitalgrowthlim.com
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
www.accounts.capitalgrowthlim.comDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
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After a phishing incident
피해자를 위한 권고 사항 및 조언
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
지금 당장 어떻게 해야 할까요?
긴급
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
모든 비밀번호 변경 — 이메일, 익스체인지 계정 등, 동일한 비밀번호를 사용하는 모든 것
2단계 인증 활성화 인증 앱(SMS 제외)을 사용합니다. SMS 기반 복구 기능을 비활성화하세요.
카드 동결 피싱 사이트에 은행 계좌 정보를 입력한 경우
보고서를 작성하기 위해 어떤 정보를 수집해야 할까요?
FBI 지침
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.
정확한 날짜 및 시간 — 각 거래 내역 및 사기범과의 첫 접촉 시점
스크린샷 — 사기 웹사이트, 채팅 메시지, 이메일, 지갑 거래, 소셜 미디어
모든 URL 및 도메인 사기꾼이 사용한 (다음과 같은 것들을 포함하여 capitalgrowthlim.com)
커뮤니케이션 — 사기꾼이 사용한 이메일, 문자, 전화번호, 사용자 이름
비록 모든 세부 사항을 알지 못하더라도 — 어쨌든 신고를 하세요. 부분적인 정보라도 수사에 도움이 됩니다.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
지역 경찰 — 비록 당장 조치를 취할 수는 없더라도 공식 기록을 남깁니다
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
How do phishing scams typically work?
가짜 웹사이트 — 도메인을 약간만 변경한, 정식 사이트와 픽셀 단위로 완벽하게 일치하는 복제 사이트
pig butchering — Telegram·왓츠앱·데이트 앱을 통해 몇 주에 걸쳐 신뢰를 쌓은 뒤, 돈을 훔쳐갔다
회복 사기 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
AI를 이용한 사기 — 딥페이크, 자동화된 피싱, AI로 생성된 사이트 등으로 인해 사기 행각을 적발하기가 더 어려워지고 있다
앞으로 어떻게 하면 스스로를 지킬 수 있을까요?
공식 사이트 즐겨찾기 추가 — 이메일, DM 또는 광고에 포함된 링크는 절대 클릭하지 마세요
도메인 확인 — 확인하기 PhishDestroy 상호작용을 시작하기 전에 HTTPS, 맞춤법, 도메인 등록 기간을 확인하세요.
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.
