Fake upGrowth Website Alert: How to Verify Our Official Site

• Amol Ghemud
• Fake upGrowth Website Alert: How to Verify Our Official Site
• Published: November 6, 2024

Contributors: Amol Ghemud
Published: November 6, 2024

Summary

A fake upGrowth website at upgrowth-user.com was reported on 6 November 2024, and this notice was last reviewed in September 2026. upgrowth.in is our only official website, our emails end in @upgrowth.in, and we never ask anyone to pay a personal account. This page shows how to check a domain with ICANN Lookup, your browser and Google Business Profile, and where to report a fake site.

Notice first published 6 November 2024. Last reviewed September 2026. If you are reading this because you want to know whether upGrowth is real, here is the short version. Our only website is upgrowth.in. A fake upGrowth website has used our name and branding to approach people, and anything on another domain is not us.

We first reported a site at upgrowth-user.com on 6 November 2024. It has no connection with upGrowth. We have kept this alert online since then for 2 reasons: impersonation attempts tend to come back under a new domain name, and people keep searching for phrases like “upgrowth reviews” and “is upGrowth legit” before they pay anyone.

This page lists the channels that are genuinely ours, then gives you a repeatable way to check any site, email or account that claims to represent us. Every tool we point to is public and free.

Quick Answer: How to Spot a Fake upGrowth Website

upgrowth.in is our only official website. Our emails end in @upgrowth.in, our contact numbers are published on our contact page, and we invoice clients against a signed agreement. We never ask anyone to pay a personal account, and we never ask for passwords or bank credentials. Any other domain or account using our name is not connected to us.

The table below is the version you can screenshot and keep. The rest of this page explains how to confirm each line for yourself.

What we will never ask you to do

We will not rush you. We will not ask for a fee to release a payout, a job, a refund or a “verification” credit. We will not move a business conversation to a personal messaging account and ask for money there. If a message claiming to be from upGrowth does any of this, stop and check it against our contact page before you reply.

Where our real work is published

Our case studies, careers pages and blog posts all sit on upgrowth.in. If a site uses our logo but none of our published work, that is a strong signal. Read who we are and what we do on our own site rather than on a forwarded page.

What We Reported in November 2024

On 6 November 2024 we published this alert after finding a website at upgrowth-user.com that presented itself as upGrowth. We describe below only what we saw and what people sent us. We are not naming any person or company behind it, and we are not making any claim about who operates it.

The site we found

The site copied our branding closely enough that visitors could believe they were dealing with upGrowth. We have no relationship with it, we did not authorise the use of our name, and we asked the hosting provider and the domain registrar to remove it. We cannot promise that a copycat domain will not appear again, which is why the checks in the next section matter more than any single takedown.

What people told us

People wrote to us asking for refunds of money they say they paid to an account using our name. We had no record of those payments because they never came to us. We were also shown a public review accusing upGrowth of poor service and fraudulent practices, which we could not match to any client engagement.

How to Check Any Website Before You Pay or Share Data

Run these 5 checks before you send money or documents to any brand, including us. Read the domain character by character, look up its registration record, read what your browser says about it, look for a verified Google Business Profile, and reach social accounts only through the official site. The whole sequence takes about 5 minutes.

1. Read the domain character by character

Lookalike domains work because nobody reads addresses closely. The tricks are an added word or hyphen (as in the upgrowth-user.com case), a swapped letter, or a different ending such as .com, .net or .org in place of .in. Type the address yourself rather than tapping a link in a message, then compare it letter by letter with the address on any invoice or document you were sent.

2. Look up the domain registration record

Open the ICANN Lookup tool, which “gives you the ability to look up the current registration data for domain names and Internet number resources”. Check the creation date. A domain registered weeks ago while the site claims years of trading is a warning sign. The record also names the registrar, which you need if you want to report the domain later.

3. Read what your browser tells you, then stay careful anyway

Chrome shows a security icon beside the address, and a full-page red “Dangerous site” warning when Google Safe Browsing has flagged a page for phishing or social engineering. A padlock is not a certificate of honesty. Google’s own guidance says “Even when connected to a site securely, always be careful when you share sensitive or personal information”, because encryption protects the connection, not your relationship with whoever owns the site.

4. Look for a verified Google Business Profile

Search the brand name and look at the business panel. Google says that “when you verify your business on Google, you gain ownership of your Business Profile and can make sure your business info is accurate”, so a verified profile ties a real operator to the listing. Check that the website field on the profile points to the domain you expect, not to a near-miss version of it.

5. Reach social accounts through the official site only

Open upgrowth.in first, then follow the social links published there. Do not trust an account you found through search or a forwarded link, even when the logo and posts look right. A genuine brand account links back to the domain it claims to represent.

How to Report a Fake upGrowth Website or Message

Report it in 4 places: to us, to Google Safe Browsing, to India’s National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal, and to the registrar that holds the domain. Each one acts on a different lever, so doing all 4 gets a page removed faster than any single report.

Tell upGrowth

Send the link, screenshots and any phone number or email address involved through our contact page. We add every report to the evidence we send to hosts and registrars. We do not need your bank details or passwords to act on a report, and we will never ask you for them. Our privacy policy explains what we do with what you send.

Report the page to Google Safe Browsing

Google runs a public form titled Report a Page to Google Safe Browsing. Paste the exact URL. Safe Browsing keeps the list of sites that trigger those red warnings in Chrome and other browsers, so a successful report protects everyone who lands there after you, not just you.

Report it on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal

India’s National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal is run by the Ministry of Home Affairs through the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre, and it exists to “facilitate victims/complainants to report cyber crime complaints online”. Its Report Suspect facility accepts “Website URLs, WhatsApp numbers/Telegram handles, phone numbers, email-IDs”. Use the financial fraud category if money moved, and file it the same day.

Report it to the domain registrar

The ICANN Lookup record names the registrar. Most registrars publish an abuse contact for exactly this. If the registrar ignores a valid abuse report, or the registration data is inaccurate or missing, ICANN takes contractual compliance complaints. Note its own limits: ICANN says it “does not have contractual authority or the technical ability to return a lost domain name to you”.

What to Do If You Already Paid or Shared Information

Work in this order: stop the money, secure your accounts, then preserve the evidence. Speed matters most in the first few hours, because banks and payment providers have a far better chance of holding a transfer before it is withdrawn onward.

Stop the money first

Call your bank or payment provider and report the transaction as fraud. Ask them to flag the receiving account. File the complaint on cybercrime.gov.in under financial fraud on the same day, because the reference number from that complaint is what banks and police ask for later. The portal also lists 1930 as the cyber crime helpline.

Then secure your accounts

If you entered a password on the fake site, change it there and anywhere else you reused it, and turn on 2-step verification. If you shared identity documents, watch for accounts or loans opened in your name, and tell the issuing authority if you see anything you did not apply for.

Keep the evidence and send it to us

Save the URL, full-page screenshots, transaction IDs, the phone numbers and the email addresses. Do not delete the chat. Send a copy to us through the contact page so we can attach it to our takedown requests. Your report often tells us about a domain we have not seen yet.

What upGrowth Is Doing About the Fake Website

We reported the domain, asked the host and registrar to take it down, told clients and partners directly, and published this notice. We are not going to claim the problem is permanently solved. What we can control is making the real channels easy to confirm in under 5 minutes.

• Takedown requests: we submitted removal requests to the hosting provider and the domain registrar, with the evidence people sent us.
• Legal and security advice: we asked legal and cybersecurity advisers to help us investigate the impersonation and press for removal.
• Public alerts: we published this notice and warned clients and partners through our own site and social channels.
• A single reporting route: every report comes through our contact page, so nothing depends on reaching the right person by chance.
• Direct outreach: we contacted clients and partners so they could recognise the approach before it reached them.

If you have seen something that looks like this and you are not sure, send it anyway. A false alarm costs us a few minutes. An unreported impersonation costs somebody money.

Recruitment Scams: A Separate Warning

Fake job offers use the same playbook as a fake upGrowth website. upGrowth does not solicit personal information or offer jobs through unsolicited calls or messages, and we never charge a fee to apply, train or join. Open roles are listed on our own careers pages. Read our careers notice on recruitment scams for the details and the reporting route.

Watch: Our Alert About the Fake upGrowth Website

FAQs About the Fake upGrowth Website

Your Next Move: Verify First, Then Talk to the Real upGrowth

Run the 5 checks above on any site that claims to be us. If something fails a check, report it through our contact page and to Google Safe Browsing, and keep your screenshots. If you were about to hire an agency and you want to be certain you are talking to the real team, book a 30-minute call with upGrowth from this page rather than from a link someone sent you.

Apply the same scepticism to every agency you speak to, not only to people using our name. Our post on the 5 red flags to watch when hiring a growth agency covers the commercial warning signs.

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About the Author

Amol Ghemud

Optimizer in Chief

Amol has helped catalyse business growth with his strategic & data-driven methodologies. With a decade of experience in the field of marketing, he has donned multiple hats, from channel optimization, data analytics and creative brand positioning to growth engineering and sales.