linkedpayservices.com is an impersonation phishing page that trades on the Telegram brand. It presents itself as "Linkedpay - карты и платежи в Telegram", which translates to "cards and payments in Telegram", and it is aimed at Russian-speaking users looking for a way to fund or spend money through Telegram. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-27. As of 2026-10-19 the site was still online and serving its content.
How the scam works
The page title describes a card and payments service operating inside Telegram rather than Telegram itself, which we classified as Telegram impersonation. Schemes like this borrow Telegram's credibility to sell a payment product that does not exist. They usually lure visitors into one of two actions. The first is signing in "with Telegram" on a fake form that captures the phone number, login code and cloud password, which lets the operator take over the account. The second is topping up a virtual card with crypto or bank funds that never come back. Victims lose either their Telegram account, along with its contacts and chats, or the money they sent.
Evidence
Six of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as of 2026-10-03: alphaMountain.ai, Bfore.Ai PreCrime, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, SOCRadar and URLQuery. That count is modest, so many security tools will still let the page load. The listings on the MetaMask and SEAL blocklists carry more weight, because those lists focus on crypto-targeting fraud, and they appear alongside PhishDestroy's own entry. Three AlienVault OTX threat pulses also reference the domain, showing that other researchers have tracked it independently.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-08-18 through Cloudflare, Inc., about forty days before PhishDestroy detected it. That short gap fits a site set up specifically for this campaign. Traffic resolves to Cloudflare's network, geolocated to Canada. The Cloudflare proxy hides the server that actually hosts the page, so the visible address does not reveal the operator's real location.
What to do
If you entered a phone number or login code on this site, open Telegram, go to Settings, then Devices, and terminate every session you don't recognise. Then set or change your two-step verification password. If you sent money or crypto to top up a "Linkedpay" card, stop any further payments. Ignore requests for activation or unlock fees, and report the transfer to your bank or exchange right away. Warn your contacts, because hijacked accounts are commonly used to spread the same lure. Defenders should block the domain at DNS and proxy level and file an abuse report with Cloudflare.
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内容在线Ordinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-21 01:56:34 UTC
RDAP registration未知
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-21 01:56:34 UTClast content: 2026-10-21 01:56:34 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.
技术 · 3 identified
Cloudflare Browser Insights
AnalyticsRUM
Cloudflare Browser Insights is a tool that measures the performance of websites from the perspective of users.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
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After a phishing incident
针对受害者的建议与指导
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
我应该立即采取什么措施？
紧急
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
更改所有密码 — 电子邮件、Exchange 账户，以及任何使用同一密码的账户
启用双因素认证 使用身份验证器应用（而非短信）。禁用基于短信的恢复功能
冻结卡片 如果您在钓鱼网站上输入了银行信息
我应该为报告收集哪些信息？
联邦调查局（FBI）指南
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.
当地警方 — 即使无法立即采取行动，也能留下正式记录
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?
虚假网站 — 与正规网站完全一致的克隆网站，仅域名略有改动
猪的屠宰 — 通过Telegram/WhatsApp/交友软件花数周时间建立信任，随后钱被骗走
退款诈骗 — 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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