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Is coingekx.com legit or a scam?
Fake CoinGecko clone running a crypto drainer on a 68-day-old domain with 19 malware detections and confirmed scam reports.
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 site presents itself as a crypto exchange called coingek with trading interfaces and wallet connections but is a direct clone and typosquat of the legitimate CoinGecko service. Our antivirus network detected malicious activity from 19 engines including BitDefender and alphaMountain.ai, plus a social engineering block from browser feeds. The domain was registered only 68 days ago with no business registration or contact details, a common pattern for drainers. Independent reports explicitly label it as a crypto drainer stealing funds via wallet connections. These combined signals leave no reasonable doubt about its intent.
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 coingekx.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain coingekx.com registered March 17, 2026 via NameSilo (68 days old as of May 2026)
- Flagged by 20/20 VirusTotal vendors and 3 blocklists (MetaMask, PhishDestroy, SEAL) as of May 18, 2026
- Classified as active crypto drainer/phishing site on phishdestroy.io with title 'coingek'
- Resolves to Cloudflare IP 104.21.63.226; uses Let's Encrypt SSL
- No legitimate business mentions, reviews, or Reddit discussions found; only security threat reports
Page title 'coingek' closely mimics CoinGecko; domain name variation of coingecko.com
Our research located three scam reports on phishdestroy.io explicitly identifying coingekx.com as a crypto drainer that tricks users into connecting wallets. The same source notes 20 detections and blocklist flags. No positive reviews, business registrations, or legitimate discussions were found anywhere.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Detected threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING.
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.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
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.
- Domain is a typosquat of coingecko.com.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- Domain is a typosquat of coingecko.com.
- 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 categorised the site as crypto-themed.
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.
- Domain is a typosquat of coingecko.com.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- Domain is a typosquat of coingecko.com.
- 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 categorised the site as crypto-themed.
Phishing site — act fast
This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.
- Do not interact with coingekx.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already typed your password — change it now
Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.
- OpenReport the phishing URL
APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.
- OpenGet help on the forum
MalwareTips members can help you assess damage and next steps.
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 coingekx.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — coingekx.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. coingekx.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 80 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- coingekx.com is 2 months old, registered on 3/17/2026 through NameSilo, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 22 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged coingekx.com as malicious or suspicious (19 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged coingekx.com with the following threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
- coingekx.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 is a fake cryptocurrency trading platform impersonating CoinGecko. Multiple antivirus engines and browser blocklists flag it as phishing, the domain is only 68 days old, and independent reports confirm it as an active crypto drainer. Do not visit or connect any wallets.
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