sonnen-dovonextech.com presented itself as the official website of an AI trading platform. Its page title read "sonnen-dovonex | AI Trading Platform | Official Website." It targeted people looking for automated crypto or investment trading. PhishDestroy first saw the site on 2026-09-19 and classifies it as impersonation phishing. The site went offline on 2026-09-26, and as of 2026-10-19 its DNS no longer resolves.
How the scam works
Fake AI trading sites promise effortless profits from a supposedly smart trading bot and push visitors to open an account and fund it, usually in crypto. After a deposit, the dashboard tends to show steadily rising balances, which encourages larger top-ups. When victims try to withdraw, they are typically asked for "fees," "taxes" or verification payments, and the money never comes back. Anything entered at signup, such as email, phone number, passwords or identity documents, can also be reused for follow-up scams.
Evidence
On 2026-09-20, 16 of 89 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain as malicious. The flagging vendors included BitDefender, ESET, Fortinet, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, Emsisoft, alphaMountain.ai and Chong Lua Dao. These are independent vendors that reached the same verdict within a day of our detection. The domain also appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses, so other researchers have tracked it as well. PhishDestroy lists it on its blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2025-12-05 through MainReg Inc., more than nine months before it surfaced as an active phishing page. A gap like this can mean the name was registered in advance and used later. The site was hosted on the Snel.com B.V. network in the Netherlands. Its certificate was a free domain-validated ZeroSSL certificate, so the browser padlock only showed an encrypted connection and said nothing about who ran the site.
What to do
If you deposited funds with sonnen-dovonex, stop all further payments, especially any "withdrawal fee" or "unlock" charge, because those payments are the core of the scam. Gather your transaction IDs, receipts and chat logs, and report them to your exchange, your bank and the police. If you reused a password from your signup, change it everywhere and turn on two-factor authentication. Be wary of "recovery" services that contact you, since they often target the same victims again. Security teams should block the domain and treat sonnen-dovonex branding and similarly named lookalike domains as indicators of this campaign.
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 01:16:38 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-25 10:47:36 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-25 10:47:36 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 125.46hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-28 01:31:15 UTC · precision low · 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.
使用技術 · 3 identified
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CDN
JSDelivr is a free public CDN for open-source projects. It can serve web files directly from the npm registry and GitHub repositories without any configuration.
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.
