Brand impersonation — not the real site
The page visually clones firstcitizens.com. 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 firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app legit or a scam?
Newly created clone of First Citizens Bank that loads a phishing page on a vercel.app subdomain with a visible Gmail contact address.
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 page presents itself as First-citizen digital banking but copies the layout, navigation, and branding of the real firstcitizens.com. Kaspersky flagged the URL as phishing while the domain itself is only hours old. A visible header email uses a free Gmail address instead of any official bank contact. The visual analysis confirms the site is a direct clone with an added chat widget and language selector overlay. No business registration exists for the subdomain and the evidence package returned zero legitimate mentions or reviews.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
The page visually mimics firstcitizens.com
Screenshot shows a fully rendered fake banking site impersonating First Citizens Bank with suspicious header email and chat widget.
What our vision model saw
4 signalsHeader shows suspicious email address "Firstcitizenebanking@gmail.com" instead of legitimate bank branding
Misplaced floating language selector overlay partially covering content
Fake chat widget labeled "jvcochat" with "Chat with us, we're online!" prompt
Impersonates First Citizens Bank via logo, navigation, and "First Citizen Banking" branding
Brand Impersonation
medium confidenceThe page mentions or styles itself as Google, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official Google property.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app has an age of 0 days.
- Hosted as a Vercel.app subdomain with page title 'First-citizen' and description 'Secure digital banking platform for modern financial needs.'
- No specific scam reports, reviews, complaints, or Reddit discussions found for the exact domain in web searches.
- Real First Citizens Bank operates official digital banking at firstcitizens.com.
- Similar vercel.app domains (e.g., firstcitizensecure.vercel.app) appear in automated security scanner results with varying trust scores.
- Domain appears only in generic blocklist/filter files and scanner pages with no targeted mentions.
Name, title 'First-citizen', and banking description closely mimic First Citizens Bank's official digital banking site.
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.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (0.5639874).
- Links to 4 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1308http://firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app/
- 2200https://firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- Visual clone of firstcitizens.com detected in the screenshot.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- 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.
- Page claims to be Google.
- Visual clone of firstcitizens.com detected in the screenshot.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- 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 firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app
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.
Trust History
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 firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app scored 8/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WR1, expiring in 51 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app is 0 days old. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 1 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- firstcitizen-ebank-three.vercel.app resolves to an IP operated by Vercel, 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.
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