PhishPin / Brands Live Phishing Data / Banks & lenders / Scotiabank
Scotiabank phishing: sites, fake domains & scam patterns
PhishPin's phishing-feed index currently lists 68 hostnames that reference Scotiabank, across 106 reported URLs from 1 of 5 threat feeds we track. Scotiabank ranks #93 of 579 brands we track by reported hosts. In the last 15 days, 2 newly registered domains contained or closely resembled the name.
Banks & lenders · rank #93 of 579 by reported hosts
Key findings for Scotiabank
- Impersonation pressure is Elevated (40/100): Scotiabank has more reported hosts than 83% of the 579 brands we track.
- That is 1.0× the average for banks & lenders (65 hosts per brand).
- 59 hosts (87%) hide the Scotiabank name in a subdomain of an unrelated site, the trick that makes a link look official at a glance.
- The most common ending is .com (30 hosts, 44%).
- 21% of hosts pair the brand with a bait word. The most common is “online” (4 hosts).
- 2 lookalike domains were registered in the last 15 days, 1 of them in the three most recent days of data.
How attackers fake Scotiabank
These breakdowns cover all 68 matching hostnames, not only the rows listed below.
Top endings (TLDs)
Bait words next to the brand
Hostname tricks
Hosts reported in phishing feeds
The most widely reported hostnames that reference Scotiabank, ranked by how many feeds list them and then by reported URLs. Search, filter and export all 68 rows.
| # | Hostname (defanged) | Pattern | Feeds | URLs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scotiabank1[.]com | name in domain | 1 feed | 14 |
| 2 | scotiabank-canalesvirtuales[.]com | name in domain | 1 feed | 5 |
| 3 | scotiabankt[.]tonohost[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 5 |
| 4 | scotiabankcolpa2[.]tonohost[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 4 |
| 5 | staging[.]rutascotiabank[.]resermap[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 3 |
| 6 | www1scotiabankcomuyscotiaenlinea--scotibank2enlin[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 3 |
| 7 | online[.]scotiabank[.]mx01online[.]com | subdomain trickonline | 1 feed | 2 |
| 8 | online[.]scotiabank[.]mxdigital987[.]com | subdomain trickonline | 1 feed | 2 |
| 9 | scotiabank-1[.]scotiaverify[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trickverify | 1 feed | 2 |
| 10 | scotiabank-yieldmorefinancing[.]ca | name in domain | 1 feed | 2 |
| 11 | scotiabankdc[.]tonohost[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 2 |
| 12 | scotiabankga[.]tonohost[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 2 |
| 13 | scotiabankle[.]tonohost[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 2 |
| 14 | scotiabankperu[.]eshost[.]com[.]ar | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 2 |
| 15 | secure-scotiabank[.]net | secure | 1 feed | 2 |
| 16 | z0scotiabankdesbloqueoenlinepe[.]scoti020[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 2 |
| 17 | colpatria12[.]scotiabank12[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 18 | colpatria2[.]scotiabank22[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 19 | dev-bnk-scotiabank-peru[.]pantheonsite[.]io | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 20 | httpswww1scotiabankcomuyscotiaenlinea[.]htmloutl[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 21 | ingresoweb-1[.]scotiabank0[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 22 | isn1-scotiabank[.]azurewebsites[.]net | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 23 | rbcroyalbankbmoscotiabankmetamaskcoinbasebinanceledger[.]bajopar[.]mx | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 24 | sc[.]ebscotiabankc[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 25 | scotiabank-1[.]scotiabankverif[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 26 | scotiabank-chat[.]web[.]app | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 27 | scotiabank-helpcentre[.]com | help | 1 feed | 1 |
| 28 | scotiabank-helpdesk[.]com | help | 1 feed | 1 |
| 29 | scotiabank[.]assetlogins[.]com | subdomain tricklogin | 1 feed | 1 |
| 30 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]3ss-23r-s0[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 31 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]mms-c4d-2w3[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 32 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]mrs-5fd-s3w[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 33 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]s9d-40l-ssl-fr3[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 34 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]sco-rd2-3w[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 35 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]ssl-f45-sf[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 36 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]ssl9-cds-secure[.]com | subdomain tricksecure | 1 feed | 1 |
| 37 | scotiabank[.]ca[.]w3-f5-d43-q0[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 38 | scotiabank[.]com[.]mx[.]xtgco[.]cee0[.]xyz | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 39 | scotiabank[.]dudullc[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 40 | scotiabank[.]mx-xcom[.]xyz | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 41 | scotiabank[.]security[.]zya[.]me | subdomain tricksecurity | 1 feed | 1 |
| 42 | scotiabank[.]whereisacopwhenyouneedone[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 43 | scotiabank9623[.]zendesk[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 44 | scotiabankbt[.]tonohost[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 45 | scotiabankco[.]lpatria[.]win | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 46 | scotiabankcolpa1[.]tonohost[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 47 | scotiabankcolpatria[.]colpatriaas[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 48 | scotiabankcolpatriasecuri[.]ibx[.]lat | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 49 | scotiabankhelpdesk[.]com | help | 1 feed | 1 |
| 50 | scotiabankhp[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 51 | scotiabankpe-enlinea[.]glitch[.]me | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 52 | scotiabankpee[.]eshost[.]com[.]ar | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 53 | scotiabankperum[.]eshost[.]com[.]ar | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 54 | scotiabankpeweb[.]eshost[.]com[.]ar | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 55 | scotiabankpr[.]eshost[.]com[.]ar | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 56 | scotiabanks[.]online-logins[.]com | subdomain trickonline | 1 feed | 1 |
| 57 | scotiabanks[.]sbusonline[.]com | subdomain trickonline | 1 feed | 1 |
| 58 | scotiabankseguridad[.]simon12345679[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 59 | scotiabankvirtual[.]iceiy[.]com | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 60 | scotiabankweb[.]ca | name in domain | 1 feed | 1 |
| 61 | secure-scotiabank[.]sytes[.]net | subdomain tricksecure | 1 feed | 1 |
| 62 | service-scoti[.]scotiabank0[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trickservice | 1 feed | 1 |
| 63 | specializedsilentdivisor[.]scotiabank0[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 64 | valida-scotiabank[.]sc[.]hstn[.]me | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 65 | wellwornbeautifulspyware[.]scotiabank02[.]repl[.]co | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 66 | www-scotiabank[.]ddns[.]net | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 67 | www[.]rbcroyalbankbmoscotiabankmetamaskcoinbasebinanceledger[.]bajopar[.]mx | subdomain trick | 1 feed | 1 |
| 68 | www[.]scotiabank-yieldmorefinancing[.]ca | name in domain | 1 feed | 1 |
Is your brand in these feeds?
Free check: email-spoofing gaps, registered lookalikes and feed listings for your own domain. About a minute, public DNS only.
New lookalike domains registered recently
Domains registered in the last 15 days that contain Scotiabank's name, sit one character away from it or use look-alike characters. Attackers often register these days before sending the first email.
Registrations per day
Top endings of new lookalikes
Bait words in new lookalikes
| # | Domain (defanged) | Why it matched | Registered |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scotiabankclientsupport[.]com | brand name + keywordsupport | 29 Oct 2026 · 3 days ago |
| 2 | scotiabank-mobileapp[.]com | contains brand name | 28 Oct 2026 · 4 days ago |
How Scotiabank phishing works
Phishing against Scotiabank follows patterns common to banks & lenders. Typical lures:
- A "suspicious sign-in" or "account locked" alert that asks you to verify your login.
- A fake fraud-department text asking you to confirm a transaction you never made.
- A "new statement" or "secure message" email linking to a cloned online-banking page.
- A phone call or SMS that sends you to a page asking for your card number, PIN and one-time code.
Red flags
- The sender domain is not the bank's real domain, or is the real name with extra words (secure, login, verify) added.
- The message creates urgency: your account will be closed, frozen or charged in the next few hours.
- The page asks for a one-time passcode, full card number, PIN or SSN, which a real bank never requests by link.
Real Scotiabank domains
If the address in your browser is not one of these (or a subdomain of them), it is not Scotiabank. The list is not exhaustive.
scotiabank.comIf you already clicked or entered details
Call the number printed on the back of your card, lock the card, change your online-banking password from a clean device, and ask the bank to review recent activity. If you shared a one-time code, treat the account as compromised.
Protecting a brand like Scotiabank from lookalike domains
If you run security, brand or fraud for a company that is copied this way, this is the order that works in practice:
- Enforce DMARC. Move your policy to quarantine, then reject, so attackers cannot send mail that passes as your domain.
- Watch new registrations. Lookalikes appear daily; the earlier you see one, the sooner you can act, ideally before the first email goes out.
- Register the obvious typos and keyword variants you can afford to hold, and check which lookalikes are already registered by someone else.
- Report fast. A live fake needs a request to the registrar and host, plus a report to browser safe-browsing lists and the public feeds shown above.
- Tell your customers where you will and will not ask for logins, codes or payments.
Protect your brand from lookalike domains
Scotiabank is one of 579 brands in this index, but attackers copy any company whose customers log in or pay. PhishPin checks your domain for registered lookalikes, email-spoofing gaps and listings in these same phishing feeds, then helps you get the fakes taken down.
Audits use public data only – we never touch your servers. Results within 24 hours.
Questions about Scotiabank phishing
How can I tell if a message from Scotiabank is phishing?
Check the sender and link domain first. The sender domain is not the bank's real domain, or is the real name with extra words (secure, login, verify) added. The message creates urgency: your account will be closed, frozen or charged in the next few hours. The page asks for a one-time passcode, full card number, PIN or SSN, which a real bank never requests by link. When in doubt, do not use the link: type scotiabank.com into your browser or open the official app.
How many Scotiabank phishing sites has PhishPin found?
As of 1 Nov 2026, 68 hostnames referencing Scotiabank appear in the phishing feeds PhishPin indexes (106 reported URLs). These are reported hostnames, not a count of sites that are online today; many are removed quickly and some matches are coincidental.
What do fake Scotiabank domains look like?
In our data, the most common ending for reported hosts is .com. The brand is most often combined with the word "online". 59 hosts put the brand name in a subdomain of an unrelated site. Always read the part of the address just before the first single slash: that is the real site. Real Scotiabank addresses end in scotiabank.com.
What should I do if I entered my details on a fake Scotiabank page?
Call the number printed on the back of your card, lock the card, change your online-banking password from a clean device, and ask the bank to review recent activity. If you shared a one-time code, treat the account as compromised.
How do I report a fake Scotiabank website or message?
Forward phishing emails to reportphishing@apwg.org, report scams at reportfraud.ftc.gov, and report the page to Google Safe Browsing. Also tell Scotiabank through the contact options on its official website (scotiabank.com).
Is it safe to visit the domains listed on this page?
No. They are shown defanged, with dots in brackets, so they cannot be clicked by accident. Do not type them into a browser. Listings are warnings from automated matching, and some are harmless coincidences.
How does PhishPin find lookalike domains of Scotiabank?
We read the daily list of newly registered domains (1,050,000 domains over the last 15 days) and flag those that contain the brand name, differ by one character or swap look-alike characters. A match is a warning sign, not proof of abuse.
How can a company protect its own brand from lookalike domains like these?
Publish an enforced DMARC policy so nobody can send mail as your domain, monitor newly registered domains that resemble your name, register the obvious typo domains, and file takedown requests with the registrar, host and browser safe-browsing lists when a fake goes live. PhishPin's free brand audit checks the first three for your domain.
Other banks & lenders being impersonated
All banks & lenders brands ranked