Is scustody.top legit or a scam?
A malicious clone of Standard Chartered Bank using a 79-day-old .top domain to harvest banking credentials through a fake 'SCB Custody' portal.
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
The page visually clones sc.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.
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 sc.com
The page uses the Standard Chartered brand identity to promote a suspicious 'Credit Relay' service, which is a common tactic in financial phishing and advance-fee scams.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsUnauthorized use of Standard Chartered logo and branding on a non-official domain
Suspicious 'Credit Relay' service claiming endorsement by a major bank to 'ensure fund safety'
Generic high-gloss 3D graphics often associated with mobile app scams or phishing kits
Unprofessional 'Internal Login' button suggesting a restricted or fraudulent portal
Minimalist mobile-first layout typical of phishing pages designed for social media distribution
MT Intelligence
The site is a direct visual clone of the official Standard Chartered Bank (sc.com) website, but it operates on a suspicious .top domain registered only 79 days ago. Our page analyzer detected unauthorized use of corporate logos and branding to promote a non-existent 'Credit Relay' service. This service claims to ensure fund safety, a common tactic used in recovery scams to lure victims of previous fraud. Multiple security engines in our antivirus network have already flagged the domain for phishing activity. The lack of any legitimate business registration or contact information further confirms this is a credential-harvesting operation.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for scustody.top, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered April 10, 2026 (approx. 79-80 days old as of late June 2026) via Dynadot LLC, hosted on Cloudflare with no Tranco ranking.
- Presents as "SCB Custody" offering official custody, fund recovery via secure escrow accounts to prevent fraud, and credit relay services; features internal/private login portals.
- Flagged by 2/91 security engines on PCrisk/VirusTotal for phishing-related and malicious activity; assigned 30/100 trust score and labeled "Potentially Suspicious".
- No mentions on Reddit, Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or other review sites; no positive user reviews or independent verification found.
- Legitimate Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) custody services are offered via official websites like sc.com, sc.bank.in; no association with scustody.top.
- Page content is minimal, focused on logins rather than full corporate information, typical of credential-harvesting or impersonation sites.
- Direct access to homepage returned insufficient content in one scan, consistent with Cloudflare challenges or restricted access.
- PCrisk Scanneropen
"The website appears to present itself as "SCB Custody," a finance-related login portal... The domain is very new at 79 days old... branding that appears to resemble a well-known bank while operating from an unrelated .top domain. In financi"
- PCrisk Scanneropen
"At the time of this scan, 2 out of 91 security engines flagged the domain, including phishing-related and malicious classifications... this website may pose potential risks to visitors. The strongest concerns here are the phishing-related e"
Site uses "SCB Custody" branding and login portals that resemble Standard Chartered Bank's (SCB) legitimate custody services; operates on unrelated new .top domain instead of official sc.com or sc.bank domains.
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 phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://scustody.top/
- 2200https://scustody.top/
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.
- Visual clone of sc.com detected in the screenshot.
- 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.
- Visual clone of sc.com detected in the screenshot.
- 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 scustody.top
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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags scustody.top as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — scustody.top scored 8/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. scustody.top presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 69 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- scustody.top is 2 months old, registered on 4/10/2026 through Dynadot LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 95 antivirus engines in our malware network report scustody.top as clean.
- No. scustody.top is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- scustody.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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 29, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around scustody.top 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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