Brand impersonation — not the real site
Clone of legitimate China Chef restaurant now hosting MAXWIN138 gambling site flagged as crypto drainer phishing. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
Is chinachefmortongrove.com legit or a scam?
Clone of legitimate China Chef restaurant now hosting MAXWIN138 gambling site flagged as crypto drainer phishing.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The domain name matches a long-established local restaurant but the live page displays MAXWIN138 slot gambling content instead of any restaurant menu. Our sandbox and page analyzer confirm the mismatch along with external gambling-related scripts. PhishDestroy reports explicitly label the site as a crypto drainer designed to steal wallet credentials. The domain itself is over twelve years old, yet the current content shows no connection to the real business. This combination of impersonation and malicious payload leads to a malicious verdict.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for chinachefmortongrove.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain chinachefmortongrove.com (registered ~2014 via GoDaddy, age ~4448 days) currently resolves to MAXWIN138 Indonesian slot/gambling site titled "MAXWIN138: Viral Situs Link Slot Gacor Resmi No 1..."
- Flagged by PhishDestroy as crypto drainer phishing site mimicking Morton Grove restaurant; 0/95 VirusTotal detections, listed in 1 blocklist, risk score 83/100
- Legitimate China Chef restaurant (Cantonese/Filipino) operates at 5920 Lincoln Ave, Morton Grove, IL 60053 with phone (847) 967-6050 and active site chinachef.org since at least 1977 (45+ years)
- Multiple positive restaurant reviews on Yelp, TripAdvisor, Facebook; local chamber recognition as "Best of Business" 2014
- No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions found for the restaurant itself or domain prior to recent phishing activity
- Domain not a typosquat of major brands (Roblox, PayPal, etc.); no business registration details for .com domain found
- phishdestroy.ioopen
"chinachefmortongrove.com is a crypto drainer phishing domain designed to trick users into connecting crypto wallets and signing malicious transactions that steal digital assets. The site mimics a legitimate Morton Grove, Illinois restaurant"
- phishdestroy.ioopen
"PhishDestroy identifies www.chinachefmortongrove.com as a crypto drainer phishing domain... Site title: "MAXWIN138: Viral Situs Link Slot Gacor Resmi No 1 Gampang Maxwin Hari Ini""
China Chef restaurant established 1977 in Morton Grove, IL; family-owned, co-owner Julia Si noted in local chamber; physical address 5920 Lincoln Ave
Domain name mimics legitimate China Chef restaurant but currently hosts unrelated MAXWIN138 gambling/phishing content instead of restaurant menu or info
PhishDestroy reports confirm chinachefmortongrove.com is a crypto drainer phishing domain mimicking the Morton Grove restaurant and currently serving MAXWIN138 gambling content. The legitimate China Chef restaurant has maintained an active presence since 1977 with positive reviews on review platforms and no complaints against the real business.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- Phone number listed (14999000).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301https://chinachefmortongrove.com/
- 2200https://www.orderbigdspizza.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with chinachefmortongrove.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags chinachefmortongrove.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — chinachefmortongrove.com scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. chinachefmortongrove.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 86 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- chinachefmortongrove.com is 12.2 years old, registered on 3/20/2014 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged chinachefmortongrove.com as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. chinachefmortongrove.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- chinachefmortongrove.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
Final Verdict
This domain impersonates a real Morton Grove restaurant but currently serves an Indonesian gambling site. Our analysis flags it as a crypto drainer phishing page. Avoid connecting any wallets or entering details.
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