Investment scam — do not deposit
Domain was registered only 22 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 uswq.uk legit or a scam?
New fake crypto recovery site using scam tactics like urgency timers and flagged malicious by Webroot, targeting victims of prior frauds.
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 claims to be Wilmerhall LLP offering blockchain forensics to recover lost crypto from romance scams, fake investments, and phishing. Its 22-day-old domain and privacy protection are red flags for quick scam setups. Webroot flags it as malicious while it pushes free consultations with countdown urgency. No real contact email or phone adds suspicion, matching recovery scam patterns where fraudsters target prior victims. Clean browser lists offer little reassurance against these targeted frauds.
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully rendered, professional-looking page for a cryptocurrency recovery service with high-quality imagery, clean layout, and no visual scam patterns such as fake badges, timers, poor design, clones, pop-ups, or suspicious widgets.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for uswq.uk, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
No scam reports or trust mentions found.
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.
- Page contains phishing language (account verification, suspension warnings, etc.).
- Countdown timer or 'limited time' urgency pressure detected.
- Scam family match: Crypto Investment.
- Scam family match: Phishing Patterns.
- Scam family match: Countdown / Urgency.
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 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.
- Primary scraped category: crypto-investment scheme.
- High-yield / guaranteed-returns investment language on the page.
- AI analyst tagged this as an investment / HYIP / pig-butchering scam.
- AI analyst tagged this as a recovery scam.
- +1 more signal
- Phishing copy patterns in the scraped page.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- 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.
- Primary scraped category: crypto-investment scheme.
- High-yield / guaranteed-returns investment language on the page.
- AI analyst tagged this as an investment / HYIP / pig-butchering scam.
- AI analyst tagged this as a recovery scam.
- +1 more signal
- Phishing copy patterns in the scraped page.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing.
- 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 uswq.uk
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 uswq.uk as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — uswq.uk scored 12/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. uswq.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E8, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- uswq.uk is 22 days old, registered on 3/29/2026 through Cloudflare, Inc.. 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 uswq.uk as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. uswq.uk is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- uswq.uk 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
uswq.uk poses as Wilmerhall LLP, a cryptocurrency recovery service for scam victims. We rate it malicious due to its 22-day age, Webroot malware detection, and scam patterns like urgency countdowns and phishing language. Avoid it completely to prevent further losses.
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