SUSPICIOUS

Investment offer — verify before depositing

Fake CFD trading broker flagged as phishing by Gridinsoft with 1/100 trust rating, no contact info, and only 171 days old. Copy resembles a high-yield investment or trading-mentor pitch. Verify the operator with your national financial regulator before considering a deposit.

Security Review

Is beacon-digitaltrades.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Suspicious· 30/100

Fake CFD trading broker flagged as phishing by Gridinsoft with 1/100 trust rating, no contact info, and only 171 days old.

beacon-digitaltrades.comScanned 46d ago
0
Trust score
SUSPICIOUS
Heuristics 0·MT 25
Category tags
finance#Investment Scam85% MT confidence
Technical red flags (1)
Warning signals (1)

These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/95
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
5 months old
Registered Oct 31, 2025
MT Intelligence
Suspicious
High likelihood · 85% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
High scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust25/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
This site claims to be a regulated CFD broker offering forex, crypto, and other trades via MT4. Gridinsoft in our antivirus network flags it as phishing, the top signal for risk. Independent review aggregators give it a 1/100 trust score, and it lists no emails, phones, or addresses. The domain is just 171 days old with one abuse report on its hosting IP. Clean browser blocklists provide minor reassurance, but overall signals point to investment scam potential.
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Page Content

  • Promotes trading in shares, crypto, forex, commodities with high leverage up to 1000:1.
  • Mentions MT4 platform, VIP support, and partner programs but no real contact details.
  • Loads Google fonts and other external resources; body text cuts off mid-sentence.

Infrastructure

  • Valid Let's Encrypt SSL valid for 59 more days.
  • Hosted on IP 185.244.36.172 with one abuse report but low overall abuse score.
  • 171-day-old domain registered via Cosmotown, WHOIS not privacy-protected.

Domain History

  • Created about 5-6 months ago, typical for quick-setup scam sites.
  • No redirects or homoglyph tricks detected.
  • Global traffic data unavailable, suggesting low popularity.

Web Reputation

  • 1/95 antivirus engines (Gridinsoft) flag phishing; others clean.
  • Browser blocklists show no hits.
  • Average trust from review aggregators: 1/100, indicating high risk.
Risk Factors
6
  • Gridinsoft flags the page as phishing.
  • Independent review aggregators rate trust at 1/100.
  • No contact email, phone, or address listed anywhere.
  • Domain only 171 days old, common for fraudulent trading sites.
  • Hosting IP has one abuse report.
  • Visual analysis shows loading spinner with minimal content.
Positive Signals
5
  • 94/95 antivirus engines show clean.
  • No flags from browser blocklists.
  • Valid SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt.
  • No login form or countdown timers detected.
  • Page HTML loaded normally in our analyzer.
AI Recommendation
Do not deposit money, create accounts, or share personal info. Use established brokers with verifiable regulation like FCA or ASIC instead.
Next-gen fraud intelligence
Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

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Visual Screenshot Analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

50
/ 100
High visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

The screenshot shows a loading spinner with minimal content, indicating the page is not fully functional.

Visual risk50/100

What our vision model saw

1 signal

Screenshot incomplete (slow render) — page HTML loaded normally, ignoring parked-domain heuristic.

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for beacon-digitaltrades.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
5 months
Registered Oct 2025
Business registration
No public record found
Could not match the site to a registered company — common for small sites.
Independent review aggregators
1/100 · low trust
Average across 1 independent review aggregator.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Web ratings
Scores pulled directly from third-party trust & review sites
ScamDoc
1%
High riskopen
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst

No scam reports or trust mentions in our web research.

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
1 engine flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 95 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

1Malicious0Suspicious62Harmless95Engines
0
of 95
Gridinsoft
Malicious· phishing

1 antivirus engine flagged this URL. Even a single detection is a meaningful signal — treat this site with extra caution and avoid entering credentials, payment info, or downloading any files.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Sandbox Render
Page rendered in a safe sandbox
Requests made100
Unique IPs0
Countries7
Detected brandsNone

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles0
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age5 months old
RegistrarTuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown
RegisteredOct 31, 2025
ExpiresOct 31, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresJun 19, 2026 (59d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingSpectraIP B.V.
Server locationNL

Server Reputation

Hosting
CountryNetherlands
NetworkSpectraIP SpectraIP B.V., NL
IP address185.244.36.172
Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file1
ISPSpectraIP B.V.
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

0 of 13 categories showed signals

We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.

Top match: Investment Scam
Investment Scam
Low-level signals
0/100
  • AI analyst tagged this as an investment / HYIP / pig-butchering scam.

Investment-scam warning signs

The page shows patterns common to HYIP, forex, pig-butchering, and guaranteed-returns grifts.

  • Treat beacon-digitaltrades.com as unverified

    Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.

  • Any money you send is almost certainly gone

    These schemes pay out early "profits" to bait bigger deposits, then block withdrawals or demand a "tax" / "liquidity fee" to release funds. Do not top up to unlock a withdrawal — that's the same grift.

  • If you already deposited — act immediately

    Contact your bank or card issuer about a chargeback, freeze further transfers, and gather every screenshot, WhatsApp / Telegram thread, and transaction ID. Do not engage with "recovery agents" who reach out after the loss — those are themselves a follow-up scam.

  • Report to your financial regulator

    US: sec.gov/tcr, cftc.gov or reportfraud.ftc.gov. UK: FCA ScamSmart. EU: your national financial regulator. Reports feed public warning registers other victims check.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
Not listedCheck ↗
VirusTotal
ListedCheck ↗
AbuseIPDB
Not listedCheck ↗

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.

  • Our automated security review marked beacon-digitaltrades.com as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·beacon-digitaltrades.com
SUSPICIOUS

Beacon-digitaltrades.com poses as a CFD trading broker for forex and crypto. Our malware engines flagged it as phishing, and independent review aggregators rate its trust at just 1/100. Avoid depositing money or sharing personal details.

Do not deposit money, create accounts, or share personal info. Use established brokers with verifiable regulation like FCA or ASIC instead.

AV engines
95
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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