

The only time we don’t conduct business on a URL based on is in countries that block our core website. The URL has been carefully selected to resemble ours, but it’s not. Any user who always checks the URL of the website they’re on will be far more likely to see right through this scam. However, here are some specific tips for this case: Our blog has tons of advice on how to identify scams so you don’t become a victim. It’s easy to tell if you’re on NordVPN’s legitimate website. How to protect yourself from similar scams

If you don't already have NordVPN, you can download the app here to better protect yourself against malicious websites. Because this change was implemented relatively recently, it may take a few hours for our Threat Protection blacklist to be updated globally for all of our users. Threat Protection works by blacklisting malicious websites and preventing users from visiting them when users turn it on. NordVPN users who turn on our optional Threat Protection feature will be unable to visit the site in question. The site has been blacklisted by our Threat Protection feature.In fact, the initial version has been taken down and our team is now monitoring the situation just in case it pops up again. However, we’ve already begun the process. Unfortunately, we aren’t sure when the site will be taken offline because it doesn’t depend entirely on us. We are working to get it taken offline.Our team has already taken a few specific steps to eliminate this scam:
