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Ask HN: Found a phishing site. Is there anyway to get it taken down?

• coderintherye 3y ago
  Report it at: https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?h... The more people that report it, the more likely it is that at least Chrome users will get a warning when visiting it. You could also try reporting it to the TLD owner of .online which is Radix: https://radix.website/report-abuse https://radix.website/report-abuse
  • gordouwarrior 3y ago
    It worked! The site got taken down today. Thanks
    • ezedv 3y ago
      Excellent work!
• nicbou 3y ago
  Report it to the hosting company. It always works for phishing copies of my website that pop up every few weeks.
  • throwaway019254 3y ago
    Hosting company: abuse@bluehost.com
• revskill 3y ago
  Tell HN ?
• jonathantf2 3y ago
  Try https://phish.report https://phish.report - although if the site is behind Cloudflare there’s basically zero chance they’ll take it down.
  • palikero93 3y ago
    Why?
    • themoonisachees 3y ago
      Cloud flare famously does not comply to take down requests. The last (and only) time they did so was for kiwi farms, which was after mass outrage for several days.
• viraptor 3y ago
  Few ways: - you can contact their hosting/DNS provider by checking the whois entry for the domain and the resolved IP - you can report them to industry big names like Google (through safe browsing https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?hl=en https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/?h...) - you can report them to community projects like Phishtank (they get used by opendns and others) - you can find a local LE provided website where you can report it (not sure what your local would be but Australia has https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/ https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/ for example)
• zaphirplane 3y ago
  What’s the nature of the scam out of curiosity
  • gordouwarrior 3y ago
    Fake car insurance. In Colombia there's a mandatory type of car insurance called SOAT. You have to renew it annually and it's frequently asked for when you are pulled over by the cops. This fake site is supposed to allow you to either buy or renew the SOAT.
• aaron695 3y ago
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• m-p-3 3y ago
  I use these paths to take it down * Report to https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/ * Report to https://www.phishtank.com https://www.phishtank.com (account required) * Use a WHOIS lookup service for the hostname, find who's the registrar and submit an abuse report to them.
  • kusha 3y ago
    > * Use a WHOIS lookup service for the hostname, find who's the registrar and submit an abuse report to them. I used to regularly report Runescape phishing sites, reporting to the registrar is extremely effective and quite fast