Is findingcharged.living legit or a scam?
A malicious phishing domain impersonating Costco via 'C0STC0' leetspeak email campaigns to harvest member credentials.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
A malicious phishing domain impersonating Costco via 'C0STC0' leetspeak email campaigns to harvest member credentials. 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.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Our analysis confirms this domain is part of a coordinated phishing network targeting Costco members. The site uses 'C0STC0' (with a zero) in its communications, a classic leetspeak tactic designed to evade automated spam filters. Multiple security engines, including Sophos and Fortinet, have flagged the domain for spam and malicious activity. Our research linked this specific domain to a wider infrastructure of disposable '.living' and '.world' sites used for brand impersonation. There is no evidence of legitimate business operation or official affiliation with Costco.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for findingcharged.living, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain findingcharged.living is used as a sender domain (costcoupdateq@findingcharged.living) in multiple fake Costco/C0STC0 membership update emails captured on temporary email inboxes and spam reporting sites like niepodam.pl.
- Emails feature subjects such as "Notice of changes to your C0STC0 Membership", "Please review the updates to your C0STC0 Card", and similar lures about membership changes or benefits.
- Part of a large-scale spam/phishing campaign using varied disposable domains (e.g., beatenmight.living, movementsrepresents.world, singmonths.garden, visitorsconcerns.homes) all promoting fake C0STC0/Costco updates.
- C0STC0 is a known leetspeak spoof of Costco used in phishing to bypass filters, as documented by IRONSCALES threat intelligence.
- Costco officially warns about fake membership emails and scams; no legitimate Costco communications originate from .living domains or these senders.
- No website content, business records, reviews, or legitimate references found for findingcharged.living; appears solely for sending spam/phishing.
- IP association with 102.135.108.127 and similar low-reputation infrastructure used by multiple similar domains.
- niepodam.plopen
"Wiadomość od: costcoupdateq@findingcharged.living"
- fakemailgenerator.comopen
"Costco Update Q2 <costcoupdateq@findingcharged.living> Notice of changes to your C0STC0 Membership"
- IRONSCALESopen
"C0STC0 Is Not Costco: How Leet-Speak Brand Spoofing Slips Past Your Filters. The subject line read "What You Should Know About C0STC0's Membership Update.""
Uses "C0STC0" (zero for O) in subjects and sender names to impersonate Costco membership updates; multiple similar disposable domains (.living, .world, .garden, etc.) used in the same spam campaigns
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
1 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.
1 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.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with findingcharged.living
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.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags findingcharged.living as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — findingcharged.living scored 21/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- 4 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged findingcharged.living as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. findingcharged.living is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- findingcharged.living resolves to an IP operated by Norfolk Southern Railway Company in US. 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 19, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around findingcharged.living have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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