24smartinvest.live is a fraudulent investment platform designed to lure cryptocurrency holders with promises of automated or bot-driven returns. PhishDestroy first identified it on 2026-09-17, and as of 2026-10-19 the site remains alive though its content layer is DNS-inactive, meaning the scam infrastructure is still in place even if the landing page is temporarily unreachable. The domain was registered on 2025-08-29, giving it a short operational history consistent with disposable fraud infrastructure.
How the scam works
Investment scam platforms of this type present victims with a polished dashboard showing growing balances and guaranteed profits to build false confidence. The page title displayed is "Bot Verification", which differs from the investment platform classification; this may reflect a step in the user flow rather than the site's primary purpose. Victims are typically asked to deposit cryptocurrency to unlock earnings or pass a verification step, after which funds are simply stolen with no mechanism for withdrawal. The scheme targets anyone seeking passive crypto income.
Evidence
Five of 91 engines on VirusTotal flagged this domain as malicious as of 2026-10-01, with detections from alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Netcraft, and SOCRadar. Spamhaus classifies it under DBL_PHISH, its dedicated phishing and fraud domain blocklist. Four independent threat-intelligence pulses on OTX further corroborate the classification. PhishDestroy has added it to its own blocklist. Detection counts are moderate rather than overwhelming, which is common for recently deployed scam domains that have not yet been widely reported.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2025-08-29 through Sav.com, LLC. Hosting sits on IP 198.251.84.200 within the FranTech Solutions network, located in Luxembourg. TLS is provided by Let's Encrypt under certificate authority YR1, a free and automated issuer commonly used to add a padlock icon without any identity verification.
What to do
If you deposited cryptocurrency to this platform, treat those funds as unrecoverable and report the incident to your national cybercrime authority and the exchange you used to send funds. Do not attempt to recover funds by paying additional fees or taxes, as that is a secondary scam. If you submitted personal or financial information, monitor those accounts for identity fraud and change any reused passwords immediately. Security teams should block 24smartinvest.live and the hosting IP 198.251.84.200 at the network perimeter and add the domain to DNS filtering using the existing PhishDestroy and Spamhaus DBL feeds.
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Certificate fingerprint2c7deecf8e5c94767710c909acf1b09e817bd1f81edec9fcaaf15941c4b9592cCertificate names · 1 SANs
www.en.24smartinvest.live
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeDNS 非アクティブreason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation不明Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-19 22:38:03 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-12 22:34:40 UTClast content: 2026-10-12 22:34:40 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-10-13 20:21:07 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-10-12 22:34:40 UTC → 2026-10-13 20:21:07 UTC · 21.77hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-10-13 09:27:53 UTC · precision medium · basis bounded
Availability, content, DNS and registration are independent evidence layers. NXDOMAIN, an unreachable origin or missing content alone does not prove registrar action. A registrar or provider is credited only when a direct technical marker identifies that actor. Report causality is shown separately.
Recorded subdomains1
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
www.en.24smartinvest.liveDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
Keep original emails, receipts, messages and screenshots in a secure place. A factual timeline helps the receiving authority understand what happened. IC3 evidence guidance ↗
Payment records — if you paid, save the receipt, amount, date, payment provider and recipient details.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
地元の警察 — たとえ直ちに行動を起こせなくても、公式な記録が残される
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
詐欺による金銭の返還を装った詐欺 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
About this reportSources, observation dates and corrections
This report combines saved page captures, registration and network records, scanner results and PhishDestroy reporting history. Each source keeps its own observation date. Open a source report to inspect the original result.
The AI-assisted analysis was written on . It describes the evidence available at that time; later source checks can change.
A capture documents what was shown. A scanner result records that provider’s assessment at the time of its check. Neither a valid certificate nor a zero-detection result is a guarantee of safety.
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