Investment scam — do not deposit
Domain was registered only 4 days ago — brand-new sites are higher-risk by default. Guaranteed-returns, HYIP, and pig-butchering funnels all rely on early "profits" to bait bigger deposits. Any money you send is almost certainly unrecoverable — do not top up to unlock withdrawals.
Is mining-usdc.top legit or a scam?
Four-day-old USDC mining site flagged phishing by Gridinsoft and LevelBlue with scam warnings from review sites.
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 mining-usdc.top is a fresh domain just 4 days old with no real content, empty title, and no contact details. Our antivirus network shows flags from Gridinsoft and LevelBlue as phishing, matching its crypto mining theme. Independent review sites give it near-zero trust scores and classify it as a financial scam. Hidden ownership and zero traffic history seal the malicious verdict—no legitimate business acts this shady.
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 mining-usdc.top, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered 2026-04-23 via Dominet (HK) Limited; age 4-5 days
- Trust score 0/100 on Scamadviser; IPQS flagged for phishing and suspicious
- Gridinsoft classifies as financial scam, 1/100 trust score, 1 blacklist detection
- Scam-Detector trust score 12.3/100; detected on blacklist engines
- Owner identity hidden using paid WHOIS service
- No user reviews, complaints, or mentions on Reddit or Trustpilot
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we scanned mining-usdc.top for several indicators and we think the website may be a scam. Exercise extreme caution when using this website."
- Scam-Detectoropen
"Our low trust score leans toward 'yes.' The Scam Detector’s algorithm gives this business the following rank: 12.3/100"
- Gridinsoftopen
"Mining-usdc.top falls under financial scam activity. Domains in this group are commonly used for fake investment dashboards, advance-fee requests, and fraudulent credit offers."
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
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.
- AI analyst tagged this as an investment / HYIP / pig-butchering scam.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
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 an investment / HYIP / pig-butchering scam.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
Investment scam indicators
The page shows patterns common to HYIP, forex, pig-butchering, and guaranteed-returns grifts.
- Do not interact with mining-usdc.top
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Any money you send is almost certainly gone
These schemes pay out early "profits" to bait bigger deposits, then block withdrawals or demand a "tax" / "liquidity fee" to release funds. Do not top up to unlock a withdrawal — that's the same grift.
- If you already deposited — act immediately
Contact your bank or card issuer about a chargeback, freeze further transfers, and gather every screenshot, WhatsApp / Telegram thread, and transaction ID. Do not engage with "recovery agents" who reach out after the loss — those are themselves a follow-up scam.
- OpenReport to your financial regulator
US: sec.gov/tcr, cftc.gov or reportfraud.ftc.gov. UK: FCA ScamSmart. EU: your national financial regulator. Reports feed public warning registers other victims check.
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 mining-usdc.top as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — mining-usdc.top scored 10/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. mining-usdc.top presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 88 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- mining-usdc.top is 4 days old, registered on 4/23/2026 through Dominet (HK) Limited. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged mining-usdc.top as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. mining-usdc.top is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- mining-usdc.top 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 brand new site pretends to offer USDC cryptocurrency mining. Security engines like Gridinsoft and LevelBlue flag it as phishing, and independent review sites call it a financial scam. Stay away and do not enter any personal info.
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