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ネットワークセキュリティインテリジェンス Registrar context
Registrar contextTrustname
Stored registration data identifies Trustname / Fewmoretaps OÜ (IANA 4318) as the registrar. PhishDestroy maintains a separate registrar investigation; that material is contextual and is not an independent detection for this domain.
fxsurgemarket.com presented itself under the name FXSurgeMarket, with a page titled "Home page | FXSurgeMarket" styled as an FX trading market. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page aimed at people searching for online forex or crypto trading services. We first flagged it on 2026-09-05. The site has been offline since 2026-10-14 and was still unreachable when last checked on 2026-10-19.
How the scam works
Impersonation pages of this kind borrow the look and language of a legitimate trading brand so visitors trust the site enough to register. A standard "Home page" front with market-themed branding is usually the first step. Visitors are then pushed to open an account, hand over login details or personal information, and fund a balance. Money sent to such platforms typically cannot be withdrawn. Victims who ask for a payout are often told to pay "fees" or "taxes" first, and those payments disappear as well. Credentials entered on the page can also be reused against real accounts.
Evidence
Five of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as of 2026-09-18: CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Gridinsoft, Netcraft and SOCRadar. The count is modest, but Netcraft and Forcepoint run dedicated phishing feeds, so their agreement with our classification is meaningful. The domain also appears in five AlienVault OTX threat pulses, which means other researchers tracked it independently. PhishDestroy is the only blocklist listing it.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-04-25 through Fewmoretaps OU, trading as Trustname.com. That is about four months before PhishDestroy detected it, a long enough runway to build the site and attract traffic before drawing attention. It resolved to 216.198.79.1 on an Amazon.com, Inc. network in the US. A free Let's Encrypt certificate gave the page a padlock, which says nothing about whether the site is legitimate.
What to do
If you registered on FXSurgeMarket, change the password anywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication. Do not send further money to unlock a withdrawal, whatever fee or tax the operators claim is owed. If you deposited funds, contact your bank, card issuer or the exchange you paid from right away, and keep screenshots, emails and transaction references for a fraud report. Expect follow-up messages from fake "recovery" services, and ignore them. Defenders should block fxsurgemarket.com and its IP at the DNS and proxy level, and check logs for visits since 2026-04-25.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
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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