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Key findings for Sparkasse

• Impersonation pressure is High (58/100): Sparkasse has more reported hosts than 93% of the 579 brands we track.
• That is 6.1× the average for banks & lenders (65 hosts per brand).
• 165 hosts (41%) hide the Sparkasse name in a subdomain of an unrelated site, the trick that makes a link look official at a glance.
• The most common ending is .de (150 hosts, 38%).
• 24% of hosts pair the brand with a bait word. The most common is “service” (37 hosts).
• 6 lookalike domains were registered in the last 15 days, 1 of them in the three most recent days of data.
• 1 of the new domains are typo or look-alike-character copies, which are the hardest for people to spot.

How attackers fake Sparkasse

These breakdowns cover all 399 matching hostnames, not only the rows listed below.

Hosts reported in phishing feeds

The most widely reported hostnames that reference Sparkasse, ranked by how many feeds list them and then by reported URLs. Search, filter and export all 100 rows.

New lookalike domains registered recently

Domains registered in the last 15 days that contain Sparkasse's name, sit one character away from it or use look-alike characters. Attackers often register these days before sending the first email.

How Sparkasse phishing works

Phishing against Sparkasse 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 Sparkasse domains

If the address in your browser is not one of these (or a subdomain of them), it is not Sparkasse. The list is not exhaustive.

If 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 Sparkasse 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:

1. Enforce DMARC. Move your policy to quarantine, then reject, so attackers cannot send mail that passes as your domain.
2. Watch new registrations. Lookalikes appear daily; the earlier you see one, the sooner you can act, ideally before the first email goes out.
3. Register the obvious typos and keyword variants you can afford to hold, and check which lookalikes are already registered by someone else.
4. 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.
5. Tell your customers where you will and will not ask for logins, codes or payments.

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