quantumtif.live presented itself as "Quantum Trading Investment Fx Ltd", a polished-sounding forex and investment firm. It was built to win the trust of people looking for trading returns. PhishDestroy classifies it as an impersonation phishing page and first flagged it on 2026-09-11. The site went offline on 2026-09-13, just two days later. As of 2026-10-19 its domain no longer resolves in DNS.
How the scam works
Sites like this borrow the look and language of a regulated brokerage, with a corporate "Ltd" name, trading dashboards and promises of steady profit. Visitors are pushed to open an account and fund it, often in crypto, and then watch a fabricated balance grow. When they try to cash out, the platform invents taxes, verification charges or "withdrawal fees" that must be paid first. The money never comes back. Any identity documents or login details handed over during sign-up can also be reused against the victim.
Evidence
urlscan.io rated the page malicious and matched it to its investment-scam brand category, which fits the fake-brokerage pattern. On VirusTotal, 5 of 89 engines flagged the domain on 2026-09-11: BitDefender, CRDF, ESET, G-Data and Netcraft. That count is modest, so many filters would still have let the page through. The domain also appears in three AlienVault OTX threat pulses, meaning other researchers tracked it independently. Among blocklists, only PhishDestroy lists it.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered through NameCheap, Inc. on 2026-02-26, about six and a half months before we detected it. A gap that long suggests the operators kept the domain in reserve or ran it quietly before it drew attention. It was hosted in the United States on the Aquiryn LLC network. It went dark within two days of detection.
What to do
If you deposited money with "Quantum Trading Investment Fx", do not pay any further fee, tax or unlock charge to release a withdrawal. Those payments only deepen the loss. Collect your transaction receipts, wallet transaction IDs and chat logs, and report them to your bank or exchange and to local police or fraud authorities. Be wary of "recovery agents" who contact you promising to retrieve the funds. If you uploaded ID documents or reused a password there, change that password everywhere it was used, enable two-factor authentication and watch for identity misuse. Security teams should block the domain and search proxy and DNS logs for past visits by their users.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年9月12日score 73/1002 brand signals
Submitted URLhttps://quantumtif.live/
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認定と RAA の背景
Registrar accreditation and DNS abuse obligations
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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 01:14:01 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-12 22:18:27 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-12 22:18:27 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 425.94hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-21 19:16:41 UTC · precision low · basis bounded
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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
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