Brand impersonation — not the real site
Clone of real Korean exchange flagged as crypto drainer impersonating MONEYBOX Seongsu. 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 seongsu-exchange.co.kr legit or a scam?
Clone of real Korean exchange flagged as crypto drainer impersonating MONEYBOX Seongsu.
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 uses the exact title and description of the real MONEYBOX Seongsu Station Branch exchange. Evidence shows it is a direct clone of the legitimate seongsu-exchange.com domain. PhishDestroy reports explicitly identify seongsu-exchange.co.kr as a crypto drainer. The site loads no contact details and mimics a local business while targeting cryptocurrency users. These signals together override the clean antivirus scan and valid SSL certificate.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Clean, professional business site for a local currency exchange with no visible scam indicators or cloned branding.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for seongsu-exchange.co.kr, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain seongsu-exchange.co.kr flagged as crypto drainer by PhishDestroy.io (1 day ago)
- Page title/description exactly matches legitimate MONEYBOX Seongsu Station Branch currency exchange
- Real business registration 535-85-02869 listed on moneyboxseongsu.com and seongsu-exchange.com
- No direct user reviews, complaints, or Reddit mentions found for the .co.kr domain
- Similar legitimate domain seongsu-exchange.com exists with same business details
- No evidence of typosquatting famous international brands; mimics local Korean exchange service
- PhishDestroyopen
"PhishDestroy identifies seongsu-exchange[.]co[.]kr as a crypto drainer domain impersonating a legitimate South Korean cryptocurrency ..."
- PhishDestroyopen
"seongsu-exchange.co.kr mimics a fake cryptocurrency exchange to drain wallets. Blocked by MetaMask a... Site title: "MONEYBOX 성수역점 | 20 ..."
535-85-02869 for MoneyBox Seongsu Station Branch (real business sites: moneyboxseongsu.com, seongsu-exchange.com)
Domain uses identical page title/description as legitimate MONEYBOX Seongsu exchange and is flagged as impersonating it
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
- 1301https://seongsu-exchange.co.kr/
- 2200https://seongsu-exchange.com/cross-domain
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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- 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 a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
- AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with seongsu-exchange.co.kr
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 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 seongsu-exchange.co.kr as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — seongsu-exchange.co.kr scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. seongsu-exchange.co.kr presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 85 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- 1 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged seongsu-exchange.co.kr as malicious or suspicious. Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. seongsu-exchange.co.kr is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- seongsu-exchange.co.kr 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 site impersonates the legitimate MONEYBOX Seongsu currency exchange to drain crypto wallets. Our analysis marks it malicious because it is a confirmed clone with direct drainer reports. Do not visit or connect any wallet.
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