Wells Fargo lookalike domains
Greyphish has recorded 121 domains that resemble Wells Fargo since February 2026, 17 of them in the last 90 days. Most of them (62%) are typosquats, a keystroke or two away from the real name. .com carries 83% of them, out of 15 endings in all. The pace is steady: 5 in the last 30 days, 5 in the 30 before. 73 certificates for unregistered .org.ph, .com.ph, .ph names (registry wildcard) are excluded: the registry answers for any name under those endings, so nobody had to register one to get a certificate for it.
Data as of . Public sources only.
What kind of lookalikes
Lookalikes per week
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| Week of | Typo | Combo | Homoglyph | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-04-27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-04 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-01 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-06-08 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-06-15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-06-22 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2026-06-29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-07-13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-07-20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2026-07-27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-03 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-08-24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-08-31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-07 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-10-05 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-10-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Endings
The 8 most used of the 15 top-level domains these lookalikes sit under.
| Ending | Lookalikes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| .com | 100 | 82.6% |
| .us | 4 | 3.3% |
| .biz | 2 | 1.7% |
| .net | 2 | 1.7% |
| .org | 2 | 1.7% |
| .ws | 2 | 1.7% |
| .de | 1 | 0.8% |
| .help | 1 | 0.8% |
Where they are registered
For the 104 with a registrar in WHOIS (86% of all). Brand-protection registrars mostly hold defensive registrations made by brands themselves, so a domain there is more likely the brand's own than an imitation.
| Registrar | Lookalikes | Share | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoDaddy | 11 | 10.6% | Retail |
| Media Elite Holdings | 11 | 10.6% | Retail |
| Above.com | 9 | 8.6% | Retail |
| Dynadot | 7 | 6.7% | Retail |
| Key-Systems | 7 | 6.7% | Retail |
| Cloudflare | 4 | 3.9% | Retail |
| NameSilo | 4 | 3.9% | Retail |
| OwnRegistrar | 4 | 3.9% | Retail |
What the live ones do
11 of these lookalikes were registered and checked for a website and mail: 3 (27%) served a website and 5 (45%) publish MX records, so they can receive email. Checks run on the higher-severity matches that resolve, not on every lookalike.
Google Web Risk lists 1 of the 4 live ones checked against it.
4 were tracked while live and 0 have since gone down. See what to do about a lookalike.
Recent examples
The 10 most recent, written with [.] so they cannot be clicked. The brand's own domains and registrations held by brand-protection registrars are left out. A lookalike resembles Wells Fargo; it is not necessarily malicious, and none of these is a claim about who registered it or why.
wellsfargohelpchat[.]comCombo, Oct 9Not checkedwellsfargocenterboxoffice[.]comCombo, Oct 4MX recordswellsfargoonlinebanking[.]reviewsCombo, Oct 4Serves a websiteapp-wellsfargo[.]comCombo, Sep 27Listed by Google Web RiskServes a websiteweilsfargo[.]comHomoglyph, Sep 22Not checkedwellsfargoverify[.]netCombo, Sep 10Not checkedwcllsfargo[.]comHomoglyph, Sep 7Serves a websiteMX recordswellsfargoapp[.]comCombo, Aug 29Not checkedwellsfargo-support[.]infoCombo, Aug 22Not checkedwellsfargosupport[.]usCombo, Aug 18Not checked
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Greyphish is not affiliated with Wells Fargo. Domains listed resemble Wells Fargo by spelling; registration alone says nothing about intent. Counts cover domains first seen in public Certificate Transparency logs and ICANN zone files; domains that Greyphish customers watch are excluded.