Is crescentactionteam.com safe?
http://crescentactionteam.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 3 of 4 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (59 of 92 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
CrescentActionTeam is an unregulated trading site promising 'up to 98% daily wins' while security vendors flag the domain as malicious or phishing.
CrescentActionTeam presents itself as a forex, stock and bitcoin trading service and asks visitors to register or open an account. Its own page copy promises 'up to 98% daily wins' on bitcoin and forex trades, an impossible return that is a hallmark of investment fraud. Two independent antivirus families have flagged the domain as malicious or phishing, and two financial review platforms describe the broker as having a questionable regulatory license and high potential risk. The domain is under a year old, and the operator's claimed entity and addresses are unverified. The combination of impossible profit claims, adverse security detections, and unverified regulation places this site in the Dangerous band.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 18/100
Dangerous covers scores 1–20. 4 findings pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- Decisive2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- ModerateThe site claims 'up to 98% daily wins' on bitcoin and forex trades, an impossible return that is a hallmark of investment fraud.
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Questionable Regulatory License | Suspicious Operational Region | High Potential Risk"
- Moderate2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "This broker lacks valid forex regulation. Please be aware of the risk!"
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
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01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
CrescentActionTeam presents itself as a forex, stock and bitcoin trading service and asks visitors to register or open an account. Its own page copy promises 'up to 98% daily wins' on bitcoin and forex trades, an impossible return that is a hallmark of investment fraud. Two independent antivirus families have flagged the domain as malicious or phishing, and two financial review platforms describe the broker as having a questionable regulatory license and high potential risk. The domain is under a year old, and the operator's claimed entity and addresses are unverified. The combination of impossible profit claims, adverse security detections, and unverified regulation places this site in the Dangerous band.
Impossible profit claims on the site's own pages
The site's own text states: 'With our all New strategy on bitcoin and forex trades, we make up to 98% daily wins, we also have a bitcoin mining team work'. A sustained 98% daily win rate is not achievable in real trading and is a classic lure used by fraudulent investment platforms to attract deposits.
The primary call to action is a 'REGISTER' button, directing visitors to open an account and presumably deposit funds to access the promised trading strategy.
Security vendor detections and regulatory red flags
Two independent antivirus families reported an adverse result for this domain, with Fortinet and Netcraft flagging it as malicious or phishing. This indicates the site has been associated with harmful activity beyond just questionable business practices.
Independent financial review platforms WikiFX and FXEye both classify the broker as having a 'Questionable Regulatory License' and 'High Potential Risk', and FXEye explicitly warns that the broker lacks valid forex regulation.
The domain is only 355 days old, meaning it has no long-term track record, and the operator's claimed entity 'Safe Side Trading LTD' and its addresses in Saint Vincent and Edinburgh have not been independently verified.
Why the score is 18
2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
3/ 92
detectionsSaved analysis from July 31, 2026 - stale
3 engines flagged this URL
Every saved adverse engine is listed below. The full provider matrix remains available for audit.
- Malicious
- 3
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 92
| Engine | Finding |
|---|---|
| ADMINUSLabsMalicious | malicious |
| FortinetMalicious | phishing |
| NetcraftMalicious | malicious |
All 92 engine results
- ADMINUSLabs - Malicious
- Fortinet - phishing - Malicious
- Netcraft - Malicious
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Clean
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Unrated
- CINS Army - Clean
- Cluster25 - Unrated
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- alphaMountain.aiFinance
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekerfinancial data and services
- Googlefinancial_services
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Trade Forex/Stock BTC with Leverage
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Trade Forex/Stock BTC with Leverage
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
CrescentActionTeam | Global Leader In Forex Trading
- Meta description
Crescentactionteam is an award-winning online broker offering CFDs on forex, Cryptocurrencies, Stocks and lots more. Crescentactionteam provides Forex trading services and trading software/applications to clients around the globe.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms-and-conditions/index.htmlRead
- Contact page/contact-us/index.htmlRead
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
CrescentActionTeam | Global Leader In Forex Trading
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 59 antivirus results.
What independent research found
2 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
1 of the 4 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
Investment, Crypto & Wallet Fraud
Service and business model
Financial Service
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The site claims 'up to 98% daily wins' on bitcoin and forex trades, an impossible return that is a hallmark of investment fraud.
- 022 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
- 032 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Questionable Regulatory License | Suspicious Operational Region | High Potential Risk"
What this means for you
What happens when a visitor registers and deposits
A visitor who clicks 'REGISTER' is prompted to open an account, which is the first step toward depositing funds into an unregulated trading platform.
How the observed mechanism works
The evidence-backed path
Each stage below is preserved from the grounded analysis and linked to saved evidence.
The site provides a 'Deposit/Withdrawal' function, indicating that users are expected to transfer money into the platform. Combined with the impossible profit claims, this creates a high risk that deposited funds will be lost.
Do not register, deposit, or share personal or financial information with CrescentActionTeam. The site promises impossible returns, has been flagged by security vendors as malicious or phishing, and is described by independent reviewers as lacking valid regulation. If you have already deposited funds, contact your bank or payment provider immediately and consider reporting the site to financial authorities.
Web research findings
Independent findings for crescentactionteam.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domaincrescentactionteam.com
- Redirects tocrescentactionteam.com
- Hosted byNamecheap, Inc.
- Referencescdnjs.cloudflare.com · s3.tradingview.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 31, 2025Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 11 months old when this review was saved.
- Oct 22, 2026Saved security review — Rated Dangerous
The completed checks from this saved scan are detailed above.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (support@crescentactionteam.com).
Domain & Encryption
Certificate issued for crescentactionteam.com.
A shared content-delivery network address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Chat, reviews and email
- Tidio chat
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- cdnjs
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://crescentactionteam.com/
- 2206https://crescentactionteam.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
suspiciousMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
2 independent antivirus families reported an adverse result. This comes from a saved antivirus observation rather than a new submission, so treat the detection as real but confirm the timing.
Operator / customer risk
suspiciousComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The site claims 'up to 98% daily wins' on bitcoin and forex trades, an impossible return that is a hallmark of investment fraud. · 2 independent sources carry complaints or warnings about this site, including: "Questionable Regulatory License | Suspicious Operational Region | High Potential Risk"
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 3 of 92 engines flagged | Limited | Adverse | stale fallback · analysed Jul 31, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
| Independent research | 2 independent findings were saved | Completed | Adverse | this scan · Oct 22, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result3 of 92 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Jul 31, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
- Independent research
- Result2 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingAdverse
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 22, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
CrescentActionTeam is an unregulated trading site promising 'up to 98% daily wins' while security vendors flag the domain as malicious or phishing.
CrescentActionTeam presents itself as a forex, stock and bitcoin trading service and asks visitors to register or open an account. Its own page copy promises 'up to 98% daily wins' on bitcoin and forex trades, an impossible return that is a hallmark of investment fraud. Two independent antivirus families have flagged the domain as malicious or phishing, and two financial review platforms describe the broker as having a questionable regulatory license and high potential risk. The domain is under a year old, and the operator's claimed entity and addresses are unverified. The combination of impossible profit claims, adverse security detections, and unverified regulation places this site in the Dangerous band.
09 · Community
Community
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