Verdict
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
smarttradefx.live shows high-risk / scam indicators.
| What this site appears to be | Landing page for 'smarttradefx' promoting AI-driven managed trading with tiered investment plans promising daily/weekly ROI, requiring deposits and offering referral bonuses; claims regulation and awards without verifiable evidence. |
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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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 18% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 5 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 3 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Risk |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
smarttradefx.live presents itself as an artificial-intelligence trading and investment platform offering managed trading, passive earnings, account creation, and investment plans. Its homepage solicits deposits into a centralized crypto-related investment model and promotes returns, referral incentives, and access to trading services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a critical sensitive-interaction risk. Its homepage promotes tiered investment plans with daily or weekly returns, deposits before service delivery, referral bonuses, custodial control of investor funds, and claims of profitable or “risk free” investment solutions. These claims are not supported by verifiable evidence in the supplied pages, while the login, signup, and investment-purchase forms create a direct path to credential and financial interaction. The domain is also identified by multiple external sources as blacklisted, including malicious detections, which is a decisive contradiction to the site's investment solicitation. No separate brand-impersonation or conflicting legal-identity signal is recorded, but the combination of the blacklist status and the site's deposit-led model warrants a clearly cautionary posture. Reports associated with the hosting IP are attributed to shared provider infrastructure rather than conclusively to the website itself, so they are supporting context rather than proof of site-specific abuse.
- The homepage describes “AI Trading Technology,” “stable returns,” “high liquidity,” and a “risk free investment” solution while inviting account creation and investment.
- The investment-plan and account flows require deposits and include signup, login, and investment-purchase forms; the analyzed forms include an untrusted destination.
- External reputation checks recorded 3 malicious and 2 suspicious detections, with the domain marked by multiple blacklist sources.
- Domain registration: 2026-07-04T09:31:13Z; approximately 0.25 years old and 92 days in the collected record.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site exposes About, Terms, Privacy Policy, Risk Disclosure, FAQ, and Contact pages, but the supplied content does not establish an identifiable, independently verified operator or a verifiable licensing authority and registration number. The homepage claims regulation and awards without supporting evidence in the reviewed material. This is a material regulatory-transparency gap for a service that solicits deposits and presents itself as an investment platform. A valid transport certificate confirms encrypted communication only; it does not establish licensing, custody authorization, solvency, or operator legitimacy. Identity verification remains unconfirmed.
- The homepage claims regulated and award-recognized status, but no supporting authority or award evidence is supplied.
- The site's Terms, Privacy Policy, Risk Disclosure, About, and Contact navigation is present, but the supplied page content does not provide a verified legal entity or licensing number.
- Hosted on AS53667, PONYNET - FranTech Solutions, US.
- TLS certificate issued by YE1, domain-validated (DV), valid to 2026-11-18T17:38:33+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an institution should confirm the claimed operator and investment authorization directly with the relevant financial-services regulator using independently sourced registry details, not contact details supplied only by the site. The legal entity named in the Terms, Risk Disclosure, and Privacy Policy should be reconciled across those pages and checked against corporate and regulatory records. Any proposed deposit, custody arrangement, return calculation, and withdrawal process should be documented and independently validated before funds or credentials are exposed. Official support channels should also be confirmed through an offline or independently obtained route.
- The homepage makes investment and regulatory claims that require independent registry confirmation.
- The Terms, Risk Disclosure, Privacy Policy, About, and Contact pages are the relevant locations for reconciling the operator and service terms.
- The homepage and account interface expose login, signup, and investment-purchase paths requiring heightened control review.
Summary Verdict
The website has a critical trust posture and should be treated as unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The available evidence combines a confirmed blacklist contradiction, unverified operator identity, unsupported investment claims, and a deposit-led financial model. Apparent technical availability does not overcome these legitimacy and interaction risks.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single hosting endpoint rather than through a detected trusted CDN or WAF, so there is no identified edge-protection layer mitigating exposure between the visitor and the hosting environment. The hosting arrangement may support availability, but it provides no independent assurance of legitimacy.
- Resolved infrastructure: 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP; no CDN detected.
- Hosting provider: PONYNET - FranTech Solutions, US; ASN AS53667.
- The transport layer uses a valid DV certificate issued by YE1, which protects transmission but does not validate the business.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate posture is to avoid login, credential submission, deposits, and other financial interaction with the site unless the operator, authorization, and transaction controls are independently verified through authoritative channels.
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 198.251.84.236 (FranTech Solutions, Content Delivery Network), 18% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- No on-site identity signals detected
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 smarttradefx.live.
- The request stayed on smarttradefx.live. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Dynadot Inc. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by my-control-panel.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-07-04. Noted
- It is hosted on PONYNET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Dynadot Inc |
|---|---|
| Hosting | PONYNET - FranTech Solutions, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 198.251.84.236 |
| Name servers | ns113.my-control-panel.com, ns114.my-control-panel.com |
| CDN / edge network | Not detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 0 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 1 |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-18 |
| Domain age | 0.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-07-04 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 18% confidence, 5 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about smarttradefx.live 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.