Security Review

Is pinnacletradingassets.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Dangerous· 1/100

Fake trading platform with phishing detections, 91-day-old domain, and investment-scam deposit tiers promising returns up to 120%.

pinnacletradingassets.comScanned 4h ago
0
Trust score
DANGEROUS
Heuristics 0·MT 18
Category tags
investment scamfake trading platform#Investment Scam#Fake Shop#Crypto Fraud92% MT confidence
Technical red flags (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
12/91
Engines flagged this URL
Domain Age
3 months old
Registered Mar 9, 2026
MT Intelligence
Dangerous
Critical likelihood · 92% confidence
DANGEROUS

Fake shop — do not order

9 of 91 antivirus engines flag this page as malicious. The site shows patterns common to non-delivery scam shops. Don't submit payment details, and if you already paid by card or PayPal, start a chargeback today.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Critical scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust18/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation
0%
Confidence
The site mimics a legitimate cryptocurrency or forex trading platform but exhibits multiple red flags. Six antivirus engines—BitDefender, CyRadar, G-Data, Gridinsoft, Chong Lua Dao, and desenmascara.me—flag it as phishing or malicious. The domain was registered only 91 days ago, typical of short-lived fraud operations. The page content reveals a classic investment-scam structure: tiered investment plans with escalating promised returns (1–3% for $50–$5,499 up to 6–120% for $50,000–$10,000,000 over 20 days). No legitimate business contact information appears—no email on the domain, no postal address, and no verifiable company registration. The site loads Stripe payment infrastructure, suggesting it attempts to collect real money. The combination of phishing detections, recent registration, missing business identity, and unrealistic return promises is diagnostic of a recovery or advance-fee scam targeting investors.
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Page Content

The page presents itself as a multi-asset trading platform offering spot trading, margin trading, bot trading, and copy trading. It displays investment plans with tiered returns: Starter (1–3% in 3 days), Premium (2–10% in 5 days), Ownership Growth (4–28% in 7 days), and Platinum (6–120% in 20 days). These promised returns are far above market norms and are a hallmark of investment fraud. The page includes fake statistics (1M+ active traders, 150+ countries, 5M+ daily transactions) designed to build false credibility. No legitimate business registration, company address, or verifiable contact email is provided.

Infrastructure

The domain uses a valid SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt, 59 days to expiry) and is hosted on IP 163.61.188.7 with a clean abuse score. The site loads external resources including Stripe payment processing (js.stripe.com), TradingView widgets, and common CDN libraries. The presence of Stripe integration indicates the operator intends to collect payments.

Domain History

Registered 91 days ago via NameSilo, LLC with privacy protection disabled. The recent registration combined with the investment-scam content pattern is consistent with disposable fraud infrastructure. The domain is not indexed in global traffic rankings, suggesting minimal legitimate traffic or recent launch.

Web Reputation

Six antivirus engines flag the domain as phishing or malicious: BitDefender, CyRadar, G-Data, Gridinsoft, Chong Lua Dao, and desenmascara.me. Browser blocklists are currently clean, but the high antivirus consensus indicates active threat detection. The hosting IP has 1 abuse report on record.

Risk Factors
7
  • Six antivirus engines (BitDefender, CyRadar, G-Data, Gridinsoft, Chong Lua Dao, desenmascara.me) flag the domain as phishing or malicious.
  • Domain registered only 91 days ago, typical of short-lived fraud operations.
  • Investment plans promise unrealistic returns up to 120% in 20 days, far exceeding legitimate market rates.
  • No verifiable business contact information: no domain email, no postal address, no company registration visible.
  • Stripe payment integration present, indicating intent to collect real money from victims.
  • Fake statistics (1M+ traders, 150+ countries, 5M+ daily transactions) designed to build false credibility.
  • Not indexed in global traffic rankings, suggesting recent launch or minimal legitimate traffic.
Positive Signals
3
  • SSL certificate is valid and issued by Let's Encrypt.
  • Hosting IP abuse score is 0/100, indicating no direct IP-level abuse history.
  • No malware or sandbox detections triggered by our analysis.
AI Recommendation
Do not enter any personal information, payment details, or funds into this site. Block the domain in your browser and report it to your antivirus provider. If you have already sent money, contact your bank or payment provider immediately to report fraud.
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Web Research Findings

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

Domain age
3 months
Registered Mar 2026
Web mentions
No scam reports found
No complaints, no negative coverage turned up in our sweep.
Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst

No independent review data available for analysis.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Low correlation

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score
0/100
ClearLowModerateHighCritical
Linked signals (3)
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Antivirus Engines

Detection matrix · live
12 engines 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.

9Malicious3Suspicious49Harmless91Engines
0
of 91
BitDefender
Malicious· phishing
Chong Lua Dao
Malicious· malicious
CyRadar
Malicious· phishing
desenmascara.me
Malicious· malicious
G-Data
Malicious· phishing
Gridinsoft
Malicious· phishing
Lionic
Malicious· phishing
Netcraft
Malicious· malicious
VIPRE
Malicious· phishing
alphaMountain.ai
Suspicious· spam
ESET
Suspicious· suspicious
Fortinet
Suspicious· spam

12 antivirus engines 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.

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 numbers10110101
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles1
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Phone number listed (10110101).

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age3 months old
RegistrarNameSilo, LLC
RegisteredMar 9, 2026
ExpiresMar 9, 2027
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · R13
ExpiresAug 8, 2026 (59d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingLeads Globe
Server locationUS
Web serverLiteSpeed

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://pinnacletradingassets.com/
  • 2200https://pinnacletradingassets.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file1
ISPLeads Globe
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

Scam-Type Likelihood

1 scam-type patterns detected
Scam-Type Likelihood

1 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: Fake Shop
Fake Shop
Low-level signals
25/100
  • AI analyst tagged this as a fake shop.
  • Domain is 91 days old — very young for a shop.

Fake shop — do not order

Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.

  • Do not interact with pinnacletradingassets.com

    Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.

  • If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback

    Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.

  • Save every piece of evidence

    Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.

  • Report the shop

    Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.

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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 directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.

  • Our automated security review flags pinnacletradingassets.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
  • No — pinnacletradingassets.com scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
  • Yes. pinnacletradingassets.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R13, expiring in 59 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • pinnacletradingassets.com is 3 months old, registered on 3/9/2026 through NameSilo, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
  • 12 out of 91 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged pinnacletradingassets.com as malicious or suspicious (9 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
  • No. pinnacletradingassets.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • pinnacletradingassets.com resolves to an IP operated by Leads Globe in US (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 9, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around pinnacletradingassets.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

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Trust / 100
Final Verdict·pinnacletradingassets.com
DANGEROUS

Pinnacle Trading Assets is a fake investment platform impersonating a legitimate trading broker. Six antivirus engines flag it as phishing, the domain is only 91 days old, and the page displays classic investment-scam patterns with tiered deposit plans promising unrealistic returns (up to 120% in 20 days).

Do not enter any personal information, payment details, or funds into this site. Block the domain in your browser and report it to your antivirus provider. If you have already sent money, contact your bank or payment provider immediately to report fraud.

AV engines
91
MT passes
2
Net signals
3
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