SCAM ALERT: Omisego Phishing Site: How to spot a SCAM website

SCAM ALERT: Omisego Phishing Site: How to spot a SCAM website

Today, I noticed another Omisego scam site that I wanted to let everyone know about. With the rise of scam sites, especially in the cryptocurrency world, I thought I would also share some tips on how recognize scams sites.

To start off, the scam site that I found was (www.omisegotoken.com). It is being posted by an imposter twitter account: OmiseGO‏ @OmiseToken.
Please do not fall for this or even go to this SCAM website. It will lead you to a phishing website that looks just like the real website.

Tips:

1. Verify URLs:
   When following links, make sure you are double check URL address very carefully BEFORE you click it. Many phishing website addresses are very close to the real website addresses.

2. Don’t give out your personal information:
   In general, NEVER enter in personal information, such as your social security number until you are 100% sure that site is safe.
   • For the crypto community NEVER give out your private wallet keys ever!

3. Do online searches:
   Search for the site name followed by something like fraud or scam. Often times this will return results from other people stating that it is a scam site.

4. Check Scam List Sites:
   If you aren’t sure or suspect a site might be phishing, you can check one of these sites to see if it has been reported.
   https://etherscamdb.info/scams/1/
   http://www.badbitcoin.org/thebadlist/
   Also, if you find one that isn’t already listed, please report it to save help save your friends in the crypto community from being scammed.
   This particular scam site can be found on etherscamdb.info
   

5. Check the sites traffic history:
   There are several sites, such as https://www.alexa.com where you can search the web traffic. This will often give you an indication on whether it is likely a legitimate website or a fake website based on the results.
   For example, if I put the fake website in, it says there haven’t been enough visits to this website to even show the traffic history.
   

However, when you search the real Omisego website, it shows hundreds of thousands of visitors and a high overall ranking.

1. Look up the site’s owner or registrant:
   One of the most helpful resources for verifying the legitimacy of a website is to look up the information on the site’s owner at https://www.whois.com.
   • Major Red flags:
2. The site as registered recently, or at least more recently than the company when into business
3. The registrant’s name is not listed. That being said, every now and then, a company will opt to make this information private, but in my experience, most legitimate websites will list their information publicly.
4. What is the registrant’s address? Is it in a place where the company doesn’t operate?

In this example, the scam site shows a registration date of on August 30, 2017, does not list the registrant name, and shows a PO Box in Moscow, Russia. Since Omisego operates in Thailand, Japan, Singapore, and Indonesia and has been around since 2013…. This should raise red flags immediately.

Now when you compare it to the legitimate Omisego website (https://omg.omise.co), you can see it was registered on May 21st, 2013 to Jun Hasegawa, the CEO of Omisego, and has a registrant address listed in Bangkok, Thailand. This would, therefore, seem more legitimate automatically, right?

For information about the Omisego Airdrop from the REAL Omisego, visit:
https://www.omise.co/omisego-airdrop-update-3
The official Omisego twitter is https://twitter.com/omise_go and is posted on their website: https://omg.omise.co/