trustusdt.trade is a fraudulent cryptocurrency investment platform designed to lure USDT holders and retail crypto investors with promises of returns. It targets anyone looking to grow digital assets, presenting itself as a legitimate trading or yield service. PhishDestroy first identified it on 2026-10-03. As of 2026-10-19 the domain remains alive, though its content is DNS-inactive, meaning the scam infrastructure is still in place even if the page is not currently resolving fully.
How the scam works
Crypto investment scams of this type typically present a polished dashboard showing fabricated profits to build confidence, then pressure victims into depositing USDT or other tokens. Once funds are deposited, withdrawals are blocked, delayed with fee demands, or simply stolen outright. The site's page title was recorded as "Loading", which is inconsistent with an active investment portal but matches our classification of an investment scam platform. Victims lose deposited cryptocurrency with no realistic path to recovery.
Evidence
Six of 91 engines on VirusTotal flagged this domain as malicious as of 2026-10-06, with detections from alphaMountain.ai, CRDF, Fortinet, Gridinsoft, Kaspersky, and SOCRadar. PhishDestroy has added it to its blocklist, and Spamhaus classifies the domain as DBL_SPAM, indicating it has been linked to spam-based distribution. Three OTX threat-intelligence pulses reference this domain, corroborating the independent vendor findings.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2026-07-15 through Gname.com Pte. Ltd. and has been active for only a few months, a pattern common in short-lived fraud operations. Hosting resolves to an IP on the MSROBITRADERS-AS-AP network, physically located in Finland. The TLS certificate was issued by YE1.
What to do
If you visited this site and entered personal information such as your name, email, phone number, or ID documents, treat those details as compromised and monitor for phishing follow-up contact. If you deposited any cryptocurrency, understand that recovery is unlikely; report the loss to your national financial regulator and to relevant crypto exchanges if funds passed through them. Do not pay any "withdrawal fee" or "tax" demanded by the operators, as these are secondary theft attempts. Security teams should block trustusdt.trade at the DNS and firewall level and alert users who may have accessed it.
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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%2026-10-20 10:06:51 UTC
RDAP registration不明
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-07 10:18:48 UTClast content: 2026-10-07 10:18:48 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-10-08 20:20:32 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-10-07 10:18:48 UTC → 2026-10-08 20:20:32 UTC · 34.03hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-10-08 03:19:40 UTC · precision medium · 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.
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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