Is notifications-iqeq.com legit or a scam?
Seven-day-old typosquat clone of iqeq.com flagged for social engineering; designed to impersonate a regulated financial services firm.
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.
Analysis Summary
Phishing site — do not log in
Flagged on major browser safety blocklists as social engineering. This page looks designed to steal credentials. Don't log in — and if you already did, change the password anywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The screenshot shows a fully-rendered custom 404 error page belonging to the Lucy Awareness platform; no scam indicators are present and visual analysis of the actual site content is not possible from this URL.
What our vision model saw
1 signalPage renders a branded 404 'This page does not exist' error from the Lucy Awareness site
MT Intelligence
The domain notifications-iqeq.com exhibits multiple hallmarks of a phishing operation targeting users of the legitimate IQ-EQ investor services platform. The domain was registered only 7 days ago and immediately carries a social-engineering flag from major browser blocklists. Our network fingerprint confirms it is both a clone and typosquat of iqeq.com, a well-established global financial services and fund-administration firm. The page itself displays a 404 error branded with 'ThriveDX' — an unrelated cybersecurity training company — which is inconsistent with legitimate IQ-EQ infrastructure and suggests the attacker either misconfigured the clone or is testing phishing infrastructure. No business registration, legitimate contact information, or historical web presence exists for this domain. The combination of extreme newness, deliberate domain mimicry, browser blocklist detection, and absence of any legitimate business operation strongly indicates this is a credential-harvesting or redirect phishing site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for notifications-iqeq.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain is 7 days old per input data; no historical web presence or mentions found in searches
- Page title on the scanned domain is "ThriveDX — Page not found"; ThriveDX is a separate legitimate cybersecurity training company (thrivedx.com) unrelated to IQ-EQ
- No search results reference "notifications-iqeq.com" at all; zero mentions on review sites, Reddit, forums, or news
- Legitimate IQ-EQ (iqeq.com) is a well-established global investor services, fund administration, and compliance firm with extensive regulatory documentation and physical offices
- IQ-EQ maintains official privacy notices, complaint procedures, and terms on iqeq.com; no official subdomains or notification services match the scanned domain
- Searches for the exact domain combined with "scam", "review", "complaint", or "fraud" returned zero relevant results
- The combination of extreme newness, 404-style error page with unrelated brand (ThriveDX), and mimicry of a regulated financial services brand is consistent with phishing or notification scam tactics
Domain name 'notifications-iqeq.com' closely mimics the legitimate IQ-EQ (iqeq.com) financial/investor services firm by inserting 'notifications-' prefix; legitimate site uses iqeq.com exclusively
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for notifications-iqeq.com and found zero scam reports, complaints, or positive reviews. The domain is so new (7 days old) that it has not yet accumulated public mentions. However, our research confirmed that the legitimate IQ-EQ (iqeq.com) is a well-established global investor services and fund-administration firm with extensive regulatory documentation, physical offices, and official contact procedures — none of which are replicated on notifications-iqeq.com. The page title references ThriveDX, a separate cybersecurity training company, which is inconsistent with IQ-EQ's actual business and further confirms this is a phishing clone rather than a legitimate service.
Scam Network Intelligence
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Detected threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (8-444553540000).
Domain & Encryption
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
2 scam-type patterns detected
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of iqeq.com.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
- Domain is a typosquat of iqeq.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
2 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.
- Domain is a typosquat of iqeq.com.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
- AI analyst tagged this as phishing / data-harvesting.
- Domain is a typosquat of iqeq.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Phishing site — act fast
This page shows signs of attempting to steal credentials or impersonate a trusted brand.
- Do not interact with notifications-iqeq.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you already typed your password — change it now
Change the password on the legitimate site and anywhere else you re-used it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Review recent account activity.
- OpenReport the phishing URL
APWG (Anti-Phishing Working Group) accepts phishing reports at reportphishing@apwg.org. Google Safe Browsing reports help protect other users.
- OpenGet help on the forum
MalwareTips members can help you assess damage and next steps.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review flags notifications-iqeq.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — notifications-iqeq.com scored 12/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. notifications-iqeq.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR2, expiring in 82 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- notifications-iqeq.com is 7 days old, registered on 6/9/2026 through Wild West Domains, 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 notifications-iqeq.com as clean.
- Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged notifications-iqeq.com with the following threat categories: SOCIAL_ENGINEERING. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
- notifications-iqeq.com resolves to an IP operated by A100 ROW GmbH in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 16, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around notifications-iqeq.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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