tradertalonix-8-ai.com is a fake crypto exchange that presented itself as "Trader Talonix 8 | AI Trading Platform | Official Website." It targeted people looking for automated, AI-driven crypto trading. PhishDestroy first saw it on 2026-09-23. The site went offline on 2026-09-26, and as of 2026-10-19 its DNS is inactive and it no longer resolves.
How the scam works
Platforms like this promise that an AI bot will trade on your behalf for steady, outsized returns. Visitors are pushed to register and deposit crypto, and are often contacted by "account managers" who encourage larger deposits. The dashboard shows invented profits to build trust. When the victim tries to withdraw, new fees, taxes or verification payments appear, and the funds never come back. Victims lose every deposit they made, plus any personal or identity details they submitted during sign-up.
Evidence
On 2026-09-25, VirusTotal showed 16 of 91 engines flagging the domain. The vendors included ADMINUSLabs, alphaMountain.ai, BitDefender, Chong Lua Dao, ESET, Emsisoft, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker and Fortinet. The domain also appears in 4 AlienVault OTX threat pulses and is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2025-11-13 through MainReg Inc. It was hosted at 185.62.57.222 on the Snel.com B.V. network in the Netherlands. Its TLS certificate came from ZeroSSL GmbH (ZeroSSL ECC DV SSL CA 2), a domain-validated certificate that confirms only control of the domain, not the legitimacy of the business behind it.
What to do
If you deposited funds, stop sending money right away, including any "withdrawal fees" or "taxes," because these are part of the scam. Save transaction hashes, deposit addresses, chats and emails, then report the theft to your local police or cybercrime unit and to the exchange you sent funds from. Expect follow-up "recovery services" offering to get your crypto back for a fee; these are a common second scam. If you uploaded ID documents or reused a password, change that password elsewhere and watch for identity misuse. Defenders should block the domain and its hosting IP, and add similar Trader Talonix name variants to watchlists, since these brands are frequently relaunched on new domains.
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 01:16:35 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-09-25 10:02:14 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-09-25 10:02:14 UTC → 2026-09-30 16:14:55 UTC · 126.21hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-09-28 01:08:34 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.
