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Відкрити звіт“MainGate Auctions — Bank-Repossessed Vehicles, Boats & Equipment at Auction”
домен у блоклистах: maingateauctions.com — Контент недоступний. Зведення доказів: VirusTotal 3/89 (CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, SOCRadar); PhishDestroy…
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3 / 89 engine detections
Відкрити звіт8 community references
Відкрити звітprovider verdict: clean
Відкрити звіт80/100
Відкрити звітNo threat flag
Відкрити звітNo malicious flag
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PhishDestroy threat report
maingateauctions.com presented itself as "MainGate Auctions," a seller of bank-repossessed vehicles, boats and equipment. It was aimed at bargain hunters looking for cheap repo cars and machinery. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page and first flagged it on 2026-09-05. The site has been offline since 2026-09-15, its DNS no longer resolves, and it was still down when last checked on 2026-10-19.
Fake repossession auctions list vehicles, boats or equipment at prices well below market value and invite visitors to bid or reserve a lot. The buyer is then asked to pay a deposit, the full price or a "transport" or "escrow" fee, usually by wire transfer or another payment that is hard to reverse. Victims are often also asked for ID documents, addresses and banking details. Nothing is ever delivered, so the victim loses the money they sent and may have exposed personal data that can be reused for fraud.
On 2026-09-17, three of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as malicious: CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker and SOCRadar. That is a low count, so most security tools would not have warned a visitor during the short time the site was live. The domain appears in eight AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which shows other researchers tracked it independently. Among blocklists, it is listed by PhishDestroy.
The domain was registered through NameCheap, Inc. on 2026-07-10, about eight weeks before PhishDestroy detected it. That gap fits a site built and populated with fake listings before it was promoted to buyers. It was hosted in the US on the HIVELOCITY, Inc. network. The site stayed up for only about ten days after detection before going dark.
If you paid MainGate Auctions a deposit, bid payment or shipping fee, contact your bank or payment provider right away and ask for a recall or chargeback. Report the fraud to your national consumer protection or cybercrime authority, and keep any invoices, emails and transfer receipts. If you sent ID scans or banking details, watch your accounts, consider a credit freeze, and treat any follow-up "refund" or "recovery" offer as a second scam. Defenders should block the domain and use it as a pattern indicator for lookalike repo-auction sites, which tend to come back under new names.
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КатегоріяPHISHING
Hi, Reported domain: maingateauctions[.]com Reported URL: hxxps://maingateauctions[.]com/ Observed live: 2026-09-03 Money-and-run is a documented US vehicle-purchase fraud pattern: a polished auction storefront, a price that pulls the buyer in, payment demanded by bank wire, an
“Hi, Reported domain: maingateauctions[.]com Reported URL: hxxps://maingateauctions[.]com/ Observed live: 2026-09-03 Money-and-run is a documented US vehicle-purchase fraud pattern: a polished auction storefront, a price that pulls the buyer in, payment demanded by bank wire, and the site gone before anything ships. FBI IC3 books it as Vehicle Purchase Fraud. This one is built that way. Start with what the operator says about itself: "We are the seller. We purchase repossessed and off-lease ve”
Listed domains receive at least one abuse report; this entry has no retained notification history.
Якщо ви ввели облікові дані облікового запису, особисту чи платіжну інформацію або завантажили файл із цього домену, негайно вживіть заходів. Нижче наведено ресурси, які допоможуть вам повідомити про інцидент і захистити себе.
Виберіть свою країну, щоб отримати офіційні контакти кіберзлочинців або створити проект скарги →.
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Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
maingateauctions.com)Навіть якщо ви не знаєте всіх подробиць — все одно подати заяву. Навіть неповна інформація все одно допомагає у розслідуванні.
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
Further guidance: NIST · phishing responseFBI IC3 · reports & evidenceFTC · recovery scams
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