giveawayusdt.com is a fake cryptocurrency giveaway site presenting itself as an official USDT distribution event, targeting Chinese-speaking crypto holders with promises of free tokens. The page title translates to "Claim Free USDT — Official Event," framing the scam as a legitimate promotion. PhishDestroy first identified this domain on 2026-09-03, six days after it was registered. As of 2026-10-19 the domain remains alive, though its content is currently unreachable.
How the scam works
Fake giveaway scams lure victims by impersonating official token promotions, typically asking users to connect their crypto wallet or send a small "verification" amount of cryptocurrency to unlock a larger reward that never arrives. The Chinese-language branding here — "免费领取 USDT — 官方活动" — is designed to appear as an authoritative, time-limited offer from a recognized source. Victims who interact with the site risk losing funds directly or exposing their wallet credentials to theft. Nothing is ever distributed; the entire premise is fraudulent.
Evidence
Six of 89 engines on VirusTotal flagged this domain as malicious as of 2026-09-16, with detections from CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, PhishFort, SOCRadar, and VIPRE. While the detection count is relatively low, the vendors flagging it specialize in phishing and threat intelligence, lending weight to the classification. Four OTX pulses have also been published against this domain. PhishDestroy independently lists it on its blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-08-28 through Gname.com Pte. Ltd., giving it a lifespan of only days before it began appearing in threat feeds. It is hosted on IP 180.178.40.154 within the Netsec Limited network in Hong Kong. TLS is provided by ZeroSSL GmbH via its RSA DV SSL CA 2, a free certificate that requires no identity verification.
What to do
If you visited this site and entered any personal information, treat those credentials as compromised and change them immediately. If you sent any cryptocurrency to an address promoted on this site, those funds are unrecoverable — report the transaction to your exchange and local cybercrime authorities. Do not return to the site or share its URL. Security teams should block giveawayusdt.com at the DNS and firewall level and add the hosting IP to watchlists for related infrastructure.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
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긴급
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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 giveawayusdt.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.
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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
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