Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
bitstampfx.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | Landing page for a trading/investment service named BitstampFX offering CFD and crypto trading plus multiple fixed-percentage investment plans that require minimum deposits. The page makes strong guarantees and presents high-yield plans (8%–20%+), claims regulatory/compliance credentials and mentions segregated funds and insurance, while offering account signup and deposit flows. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: Not recorded
- The real-world operator identity was not independently verified.
- Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report.
At a glance
The checks that decide most of this verdict.
| Malware engines | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 17% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 5 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 2.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 202317 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2023.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
BitstampFX presents itself as an online CFD, cryptocurrency, and investment platform offering trading access, copy trading, automated trading, and fixed-percentage investment plans. Its landing page promotes account registration, login, and deposit workflows while presenting the service as a regulated, secure, and professional venue for investing across global markets.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a critical sensitive-interaction risk. External security detections identify the domain as malicious, and the domain is listed by external blacklist sources; this is a decisive contradiction to the site's claims of security and regulatory reliability. The landing page compounds that concern by offering guaranteed or fixed returns of approximately 8%–20% or more, requiring deposits before service, and promoting CFD, crypto, copy-trading, and managed investment plans without substantiating how those returns are generated. The site's BitstampFX naming also has brand-like characteristics, although the available evidence does not confirm a specific impersonated entity or conflicting legal identities. Abuse reports associated with the hosting IP are attributed to shared provider infrastructure rather than specifically to the website, so they are contextual rather than conclusive site-level attribution.
- The homepage advertises fixed-percentage investment plans, including returns of approximately 8%–20% or more, and requires minimum deposits before participation.
- The homepage contains registration, login, and investment-plan forms, with sensitive-form activity directed to an untrusted destination.
- External security evaluation recorded 11 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with two external blacklist sources identifying the domain.
- The domain's historical record contains 17 archive snapshots spanning 2023–2025, with approximately 3 years tracked; this establishes continuity of observation but does not offset the active threat findings.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's homepage claims regulatory compliance, segregated funds, insurance, security, and transparency, but the supplied evidence does not verify a named regulator, license number, or accountable legal authority. This is a material verification gap for a platform soliciting deposits and presenting investment returns. The available identity linkage is only assessed as likely rather than independently verified, and the third-party broker-reputation dataset contains no match; that absence is contextual and is not a licensing determination.
- The homepage uses the claims “Regulated • Secure • Professional” and references segregated funds and insurance without supplying a verified authority or license number in the available content.
- The homepage describes CFD, cryptocurrency, copy-trading, and fixed-return investment services while directing visitors toward account opening and funding.
- Domain continuity is assessed at approximately 2.80 years, with the first recorded historical observation on 2023-12-17 and the last on 2024-12-25.
- The site is hosted on AS214036, ULTahost-AS — Ultahost, Inc.; its TLS certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-12-23.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an institution should confirm the operator's legal name and license directly with the claimed financial regulator, independently validate the published business address and support channels, and confirm that any proposed payment beneficiary is the licensed entity rather than an unrelated individual or cryptocurrency wallet. Any account, payment, or investment workflow should remain suspended unless those checks produce independently corroborated results.
- The homepage links to About Us, Legal & Regulation, FAQ, and Contact pages, which should be checked for a consistent legal entity, regulator, license number, and enforceable terms.
- The available page evidence identifies three form types—registration, login, and investment plan—creating distinct points that require validation before use.
- The site references BTC, ETH, XRP, and ADA in connection with its crypto offering; any wallet or payment destination should be independently verified against the confirmed operator.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture and is unsuitable for login, credential submission, deposits, or other financial interaction. The combination of confirmed external malicious detections, blacklist status, unverified regulatory claims, and deposit-dependent fixed-return offerings outweighs the site's professional presentation and basic transport security.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a likely origin address rather than a detected CDN edge, with no CDN or WAF identified in the supplied infrastructure data. Hosting on Ultahost infrastructure provides only a limited operational context and should not be treated as evidence of legitimacy; the valid DV TLS certificate protects transport confidentiality but does not authenticate the business or its financial claims.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users and institutions should not log in, submit credentials, provide payment information, deposit funds, or connect financial or cryptocurrency assets through this site; any investigation should remain limited to passive review until independent legal and operational verification is complete.
Written analysis generated 2026-10-05 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
3 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by external reputation, page content, several checks together.
01 External reputation
- An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
02 Page content
- A form on the page submits to a destination TrustSniffer could not verify.Page content
rule:PAGE_FORM_UNTRUSTED_DEST - The review of the page content rated it high risk.Page content
rule:PAGE_RISK_HIGH - The page shows few of the signs expected from a trustworthy operator.Page content
rule:PAGE_TRUST_QUALITY_LOW - The page content shows three or more warning signs that deceptive sites commonly use.Page content
rule:PAGE_RED_FLAGS_STRONG
03 Several checks together
- Several independent checks pointed to risk at the same time.Several checks together
rule:HYB_MULTIPLE_MODULES_HIGH_RISK
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 5 reports on hosting IP 192.142.10.186 (Ultahost Inc, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 17% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 38% |
- Trusted social count=2
Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence.
What TrustSniffer observed
First-party facts recorded during the assessment of bitstampfx.com.
- The request stayed on bitstampfx.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Webcentral Group Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by hlogicdock.cloud, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2023-12-17. Clear
- It is hosted on ULTAHOST-AS, from a server in ZA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Webcentral Group Ltd |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ULTAHOST-AS - Ultahost, Inc., US |
| Country | ZA |
| Server IP | 192.142.10.186 |
| Name servers | NS1.HLOGICDOCK.CLOUD, NS2.HLOGICDOCK.CLOUD |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-23 |
| Domain age | 2.80 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2023-12-17 |
| Archive snapshots | 17 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 17% confidence, 5 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about bitstampfx.com at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present.
TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. A site can change after it is assessed.