SUSPICIOUS

Crypto-investment warning signs

New crypto trading site with wallet connect and deposit forms, flagged phishing by Gridinsoft and pushing browser notifications. Copy and patterns look like a crypto-investment or airdrop pitch. Treat any deposit or wallet connection as a total-loss risk.

Security Review

Is initiativetoken.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Suspicious· 30/100

New crypto trading site with wallet connect and deposit forms, flagged phishing by Gridinsoft and pushing browser notifications.

initiativetoken.comScanned 46d ago
0
Trust score
SUSPICIOUS
Heuristics 0·MT 22
Category tags
cryptocurrencytrading#Crypto Fraud#Investment Scam85% MT confidence
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
0/91
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
5 months old
Registered Oct 30, 2025
MT Intelligence
Suspicious
High likelihood · 85% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
High scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust22/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
The site presents as a crypto trading platform with features like wallet connection, deposits, withdrawals, and a market ticker for coins like BTC and ETH. Gridinsoft flags it as phishing, and it triggers our push-notification spam detection by requesting browser permissions. The domain is only 172 days old with no contact details like email or phone. Independent review aggregators rate it at 1% trust, confirming high risk. Clean browser blocklists provide minor reassurance but do not outweigh the red flags.
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Page Content

  • Crypto trading interface with 'ConnectWallet', deposit/recharge/withdraw forms, and a fake market ticker showing zeros for BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, etc.
  • Requests browser push notifications, a tactic used in malvertising scams.
  • No contact email, phone, or address; minimal legitimate business info.

Infrastructure

  • Hosted on IP 185.244.36.172 with one abuse report but overall clean reputation.
  • Valid Let's Encrypt SSL valid for 40 more days.
  • 172-day-old domain registered via Cosmotown, WHOIS not privacy-protected.

Domain History

  • Created about 6 months ago, typical for quick-setup scam sites.
  • No redirects or homoglyph issues detected.

Web Reputation

  • One of our antivirus partners (Gridinsoft) flags as phishing; others clean.
  • Independent review aggregators give 1/100 trust score.
Risk Factors
7
  • Gridinsoft antivirus engine flags the page as phishing.
  • Requests browser push-notification permission, matching push-notification spam tactics.
  • Crypto trading site with wallet connect and deposit forms but zero market data shown.
  • Domain only 172 days old with no contact email, phone, or address.
  • Independent review aggregators rate trust at 1/100.
  • Hosting IP has one abuse report.
  • Visual analysis shows incomplete render with loading spinner.
Positive Signals
4
  • Clean on major browser blocklists.
  • Our sandbox analysis found no issues.
  • 90/91 antivirus engines report clean.
  • Valid SSL certificate.
AI Recommendation
Do not connect your wallet, deposit funds, or allow push notifications — this matches patterns of crypto investment scams. Use established exchanges like Binance or Coinbase 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 initiativetoken.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 indicators found in our web scans.

Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
1 engine flagged this URL

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 91 malware and blacklist engines. Each detection is listed below by engine name — even a single hit is a meaningful signal.

1Malicious0Suspicious59Harmless91Engines
0
of 91
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 made1
Unique IPs0
Countries3
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.
  • Page requests browser push-notification permission — common malvertising vector.
  • Scam family match: Push-Notification Spam.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age5 months old
RegistrarTuringSign Inc. d/b/a Cosmotown
RegisteredOct 30, 2025
ExpiresOct 30, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresMay 31, 2026 (40d)
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

2 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: Crypto Fraud
Crypto Fraud
Moderate likelihood
0/100
  • AI analyst tagged this as crypto fraud / wallet-drainer.
  • AI analyst categorised the site as crypto-themed.
Investment Scam
Low-level signals
0/100
  • AI analyst tagged this as an investment / HYIP / pig-butchering scam.

Crypto-investment warning signs

The page shows patterns common to crypto-investment scams, fake airdrops, and wallet drainers.

  • Treat initiativetoken.com as unverified

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

  • Never paste your seed phrase anywhere

    Legitimate wallets, exchanges and support staff will never ask for your 12/24-word recovery phrase. Typing it into any website — even one that looks real — gives attackers full access to your funds.

  • If you already connected a wallet

    Revoke token approvals immediately using revoke.cash or Etherscan's Token Approvals tool. Move remaining funds to a fresh wallet (new seed phrase). Assume the original wallet is compromised.

  • Report the wallet and URL

    File a report at IC3 (FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center) or your country's cybercrime portal. Recovery is unlikely, but reports help law enforcement map the network.

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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 initiativetoken.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·initiativetoken.com
SUSPICIOUS

This is a crypto trading platform called Initiative Token that lets users connect wallets and deposit funds. Our analysis flags it as suspicious due to a phishing detection from Gridinsoft and push-notification requests, common in scams. Avoid depositing money or granting permissions.

Do not connect your wallet, deposit funds, or allow push notifications — this matches patterns of crypto investment scams. Use established exchanges like Binance or Coinbase instead.

AV engines
91
MT passes
2
Net signals
1
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