Is stonex-live.com legit or a scam?
A malicious clone of the legitimate StoneX brand, this 90-day-old site uses fake trust ratings to promote an unregulated crypto investment scam.
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
Brand impersonation — not the real site
The page visually clones stonex.com. This page is styled as a brand but is not the brand's real site. Go to the official site directly, and treat any download, login, or payment request here as unsafe.
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.
The page visually mimics stonex.com
The site uses the StoneX brand name and logo but employs unprofessional design elements and an invented 'Broker A+++' trust rating not found on the legitimate corporate site.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsInvented trust indicator 'Broker A+++' in the header navigation
Use of the 'StoneX' brand name which is a known legitimate financial services firm
Unprofessional graphic design with cartoonish icons and stock imagery inconsistent with the real brand
Generic 'Open a real account' call to action typical of high-risk trading platforms
Layout lacks the regulatory disclosures and complex navigation found on the legitimate stonex.com site
MT Intelligence
The site is a confirmed visual clone of the legitimate financial services firm StoneX (stonex.com). Our analysis found that it uses the official logo and brand name but lacks any of the mandatory regulatory disclosures or complex corporate infrastructure found on the real site. The domain was registered only 90 days ago through a registrar in Indonesia, which is inconsistent with a century-old US-based financial institution. PhishFort and Gridinsoft have already flagged the domain as malicious or suspicious. Furthermore, the site displays invented trust indicators like 'Broker A+++' that do not exist in the professional financial industry.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for stonex-live.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain stonex-live.com is approximately 90 days old and has almost no independent web presence or reviews.
- Official StoneX (stonex.com, StoneX Group Inc., NASDAQ: SNEX) is a long-established, regulated institutional financial services firm offering commodities, FX, securities, and futures; it explicitly warns about fake websites and impersonator
- stonex-live.com claims to be a 'crypto trading platform' providing real-time prices, fast execution, and high-level security (per search snippets), but no regulatory licenses, company registration, or verifiable business details were locate
- Similar domains like stone-x.live use nearly identical marketing language ('StoneX is a crypto trading platform... real-time prices, fast execution, and high-level security') and promote MetaTrader accounts and live/demo registration.
- No mentions on Trustpilot, ScamAdviser, or major review sites; no user complaints or positive feedback specifically for stonex-live.com were found.
- StoneX has issued public warnings about scammers creating lookalike sites and has faced unrelated regulatory fines in subsidiaries, but actively cautions against unauthorized clones.
- Search results for the exact domain are minimal and primarily redirect to or reference the legitimate stonex.com or unrelated 'StoneX' entities (e.g. stadium, surveying equipment).
- StoneX Official Siteopen
"Beware of fake StoneX websites. Fraudsters may create websites that closely resemble the official StoneX site, altering characters in the domain name (e.g. StoneXx.com instead of StoneX.com)."
- Reddit r/Forexopen
"StoneX is a 100 years old financial company based in the US, but that app seems to be some impostor just pretending to be connected to them."
Site presents as 'Stonex' crypto trading platform with real-time prices, fast execution, high-level security. Matches official StoneX warnings about fake websites using similar names; no connection to regulated StoneX Group Inc.
Scam Network Intelligence
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://stonex-live.com/
- 2200https://stonex-live.com/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
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.
- Visual clone of stonex.com detected in the screenshot.
- Domain is a typosquat of stonex.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
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.
- Visual clone of stonex.com detected in the screenshot.
- Domain is a typosquat of stonex.com.
- AI analyst tagged this as a brand / clone-site impersonation.
- Clustered with known brand-impersonation infrastructure.
Brand impersonation detected
This page is styled as a known brand but is not the brand's real site.
- Do not interact with stonex-live.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- Go to the brand's real site directly
Type the brand name into a search engine or open it from your bookmarks — don't use links from emails, SMS, ads, or social posts, which are the delivery vectors for impersonation.
- Never download or sign in here
Even if the page "just" offers a download or a giveaway, impersonation pages frequently deliver malware or set up follow-up phishing. Assume anything accepted from this site is hostile.
- OpenReport the impersonation to the brand
Most major brands have a dedicated abuse or anti-phishing reporting channel — reporting helps them take the site down and protects other users.
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 stonex-live.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — stonex-live.com scored 3/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. stonex-live.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE2, expiring in 59 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- stonex-live.com is 3 months old, registered on 4/3/2026 through CV. Rumahweb Indonesia. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 2 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged stonex-live.com as malicious or suspicious (1 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. stonex-live.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- stonex-live.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Data Services Northern Virginia 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.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on July 2, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around stonex-live.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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