teslainvestmenttrade.top borrowed Tesla's name to pose as an investment and trading platform. It targeted people drawn to Tesla-linked or celebrity-endorsed investment pitches. PhishDestroy first flagged it on 2026-09-24. The site has been offline since 2026-09-29, and as of 2026-10-19 its domain no longer resolves.
How the scam works
The page presented itself as "Teslainvestmenttrade | CFD Trading — Trading on Stocks, Gold, Oil, Indices", which is a generic brokerage pitch rather than an official Tesla page. We classify it as impersonation because it trades on the Tesla brand in its name. Schemes like this usually ask the visitor to open an account and fund it, often in crypto. A dashboard then shows invented profits. When the victim tries to withdraw, new "taxes", "verification" or "withdrawal fees" appear, and the money already deposited never comes back.
Evidence
Eleven of 91 VirusTotal engines flagged the domain when it was checked on 2026-09-27. The named detections include alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, CRDF, ESET, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, G-Data, Gridinsoft and LevelBlue. Coverage was modest, but several major endpoint vendors agreed within days of registration. urlscan.io returned a malicious verdict and matched the page to a generic scam template. The domain appears in four AlienVault OTX threat pulses and on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-09-23 through Global Domain Group LLC and was caught the following day. That fits a throwaway site built to run for a short stretch before being replaced. It was hosted on the FranTech Solutions network in Luxembourg. It stopped responding roughly six days after registration, which is typical of operators who rotate domains once detections pile up.
What to do
If you deposited money here, stop all payments right away. Do not pay any "withdrawal fee" or "tax" to release funds, because those requests are part of the scam. Contact your bank or card issuer to dispute the charges. If you sent crypto, record the transaction IDs and report them to the exchange you sent from and to the police. If you created an account, change that password anywhere else you used it. Expect follow-up "recovery" offers and ignore them. Defenders should block the domain and watch for newly registered Tesla-themed trading domains that reuse the same CFD pitch.
DOM Analysisanalyzed 2026年9月24日score 100/1001 brand signal
Submitted URLhttps://teslainvestmenttrade.top/
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認定と RAA の背景
Registrar accreditation and DNS abuse obligations
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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 01:16:47 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-29 01:36:59 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-29 01:36:59 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 38.63hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-29 20:55:57 UTC · precision medium · basis bounded
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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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