Crypto scam / wallet-drainer
Fake Costco Hot Dog airdrop site that tricks users into connecting crypto wallets for nonexistent rewards. Signals match fake investment platforms and wallet drainers. Never connect a wallet, paste a seed phrase, or deposit crypto here.
Is sharkcatsol.xyz legit or a scam?
Fake Costco Hot Dog airdrop site that tricks users into connecting crypto wallets for nonexistent rewards.
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 an official Costco event offering $COST token airdrops but uses fabricated branding and multiple wallet-connect buttons. Visual analysis confirms impersonation of Costco with checkmark badges and urgency phrases like 'You can only participate once!'. The domain shows no business registration and carries a listing on a crypto scam database. Hosting IP has zero abuse reports and the SSL is valid, yet these do not outweigh the clear scam indicators. The combination of wallet prompts and brand impersonation makes this a high-risk crypto fraud attempt.
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
Clear fake crypto airdrop scam impersonating Costco with fabricated official branding and wallet-connection prompts.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsFake "Official event from Costco Hot Dog" trust badge with checkmark
Uses Costco/Kirkland hot dog imagery to promote fake $COST crypto airdrop
Multiple prominent "PARTICIPATE" buttons driving wallet connection
"You can only participate once!" urgency phrasing
Rules section describes connecting crypto wallet for rewards
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for sharkcatsol.xyz, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain sharkcatsol.xyz listed as official site for Shark Cat (SHARKCAT/$SC) Solana meme coin with contract 6D7NaB2xsLd7cauWu1wKk6KBsJohJmP2qZH9GEfVi5Ui
- Listed on Poloniex exchange (April 2024 announcement) and AscendEX
- Token has ~18.7k holders, ~$860k market cap, liquidity on Raydium
- Site categorized on cryptolinks.com 'Crypto Scam List' section (generic for meme coins without whitepaper/team info; 0 reviews)
- Twitter @SharkCatSolana active; past IP dispute with Nala cat owner resolved per community reports
- Page promotes 'Costco Hot Dog Airdrop' theme per provided metadata; no direct user scam complaints or Reddit threads found
- cryptolinks.comopen
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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://sharkcatsol.xyz/
- 2200https://sharkcat.player2.world/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 crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst tagged this as an airdrop / drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
- AI analyst tagged this as a giveaway / airdrop / lottery scam.
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 crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
- AI analyst tagged this as an airdrop / drainer.
- AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
- AI analyst tagged this as a giveaway / airdrop / lottery scam.
Crypto scam / wallet-drainer indicators
The page shows patterns common to crypto-investment scams, fake airdrops, and wallet drainers.
- Do not interact with sharkcatsol.xyz
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Never paste your seed phrase anywhere
Legitimate wallets, exchanges and support staff will never ask for your 12/24-word recovery phrase. Typing it into any website — even one that looks real — gives attackers full access to your funds.
- If you already connected a wallet
Revoke token approvals immediately using revoke.cash or Etherscan's Token Approvals tool. Move remaining funds to a fresh wallet (new seed phrase). Assume the original wallet is compromised.
- OpenReport the wallet and URL
File a report at IC3 (FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center) or your country's cybercrime portal. Recovery is unlikely, but reports help law enforcement map the network.
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 sharkcatsol.xyz as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — sharkcatsol.xyz scored 25/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. sharkcatsol.xyz presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 89 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. sharkcatsol.xyz is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- sharkcatsol.xyz 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.
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