No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is investing.com legit or a scam?
Established 31-year-old financial data site with clean antivirus scans and active business registration.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site displays real-time stock quotes, charts, and market news matching its title and description. Its domain was registered over 31 years ago with valid SSL and zero malicious flags from our antivirus network. The hosting IP shows no abuse reports and the business is registered as active in Israel since 2007. Some users report difficulties canceling subscriptions on independent review aggregator and Reddit, but these are service complaints rather than fraud indicators. No clone indicators or scam-family matches appear in the scan.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for investing.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain investing.com founded 2007, ~31 years old (11419 days as provided)
- Owned by Joffre Capital (Hong Kong) since 2021 acquisition for $500M; ~250 employees
- Trustpilot: 1,232 reviews, 4.0 score; multiple complaints on non-refundable subscriptions and cancellation issues
- Scamadviser rates as 'Very Likely Safe' with average to good trust score; long domain history noted
- Wikipedia notes criticism for AI-generated content mirroring other sources without attribution and alleged sharing of user data with brokers
- Site maintains broker blacklist warning users of fraudulent calls impersonating Investing.com staff
- Positive reviews highlight real-time quotes, charts, news, and tools; used by millions globally
- Trustpilotopen
"A Scam This tool is for professional and it is sold as an easy to use software... They refused to refund me even after 3hrs...A scam!!!"
- Trustpilotopen
"Subscription to investing is lost money Every thing in paxkage descreption is a lie."
- Redditopen
"Before subscribing, please check the comments on Trustpilot: 40% of the reviews gave it 1 star, mostly due to the impossibility of canceling the subscription"
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that investing.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
- Trustpilotopen
"Customers often highlight the platform's comprehensive information and useful tools, such as the AI picks feature and charting tools"
- Strike.moneyopen
"Overall Rating: 4.3 / 5 Investing.com is a robust all-in-one market analysis tool ideal for both beginners and professionals"
Founded 2007; owned by Hong Kong-based Joffre Capital since 2021; headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel and Nicosia, Cyprus
independent review aggregator shows complaints about subscription refunds and cancellations. Reddit users warn others to check reviews before subscribing to paid plans. Positive coverage highlights real-time quotes and charting features. Business records confirm active registration since 2007 with ownership changes noted.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
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.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://investing.com/
- 2200https://www.investing.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on investing.com and not a lookalike like i-nvesting.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
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 found no threat indicators on investing.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- investing.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 77/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. investing.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 75 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- investing.com is 31.3 years old, registered on 2/23/1995 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report investing.com as clean.
- No. investing.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- investing.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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