24smartinvest.live is a fraudulent investment platform designed to lure cryptocurrency holders with promises of automated or bot-driven returns. PhishDestroy first identified it on 2026-09-17, and as of 2026-10-19 the site remains alive though its content layer is DNS-inactive, meaning the scam infrastructure is still in place even if the landing page is temporarily unreachable. The domain was registered on 2025-08-29, giving it a short operational history consistent with disposable fraud infrastructure.
How the scam works
Investment scam platforms of this type present victims with a polished dashboard showing growing balances and guaranteed profits to build false confidence. The page title displayed is "Bot Verification", which differs from the investment platform classification; this may reflect a step in the user flow rather than the site's primary purpose. Victims are typically asked to deposit cryptocurrency to unlock earnings or pass a verification step, after which funds are simply stolen with no mechanism for withdrawal. The scheme targets anyone seeking passive crypto income.
Evidence
Five of 91 engines on VirusTotal flagged this domain as malicious as of 2026-10-01, with detections from alphaMountain.ai, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, Fortinet, Netcraft, and SOCRadar. Spamhaus classifies it under DBL_PHISH, its dedicated phishing and fraud domain blocklist. Four independent threat-intelligence pulses on OTX further corroborate the classification. PhishDestroy has added it to its own blocklist. Detection counts are moderate rather than overwhelming, which is common for recently deployed scam domains that have not yet been widely reported.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2025-08-29 through Sav.com, LLC. Hosting sits on IP 198.251.84.200 within the FranTech Solutions network, located in Luxembourg. TLS is provided by Let's Encrypt under certificate authority YR1, a free and automated issuer commonly used to add a padlock icon without any identity verification.
What to do
If you deposited cryptocurrency to this platform, treat those funds as unrecoverable and report the incident to your national cybercrime authority and the exchange you used to send funds. Do not attempt to recover funds by paying additional fees or taxes, as that is a secondary scam. If you submitted personal or financial information, monitor those accounts for identity fraud and change any reused passwords immediately. Security teams should block 24smartinvest.live and the hosting IP 198.251.84.200 at the network perimeter and add the domain to DNS filtering using the existing PhishDestroy and Spamhaus DBL feeds.
For this gTLD, the registrar above operates under an ICANN accreditation agreement. The links below provide the official fee schedule and current DNS abuse compliance guidance.
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Certificate fingerprint2c7deecf8e5c94767710c909acf1b09e817bd1f81edec9fcaaf15941c4b9592cCertificate names · 1 SANs
www.en.24smartinvest.live
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Primary outcomeDNS 비활성reason: DNS NXDOMAIN80% confidence
Attributionsource: Dns Cache
Evidence layersAvailability: DNS inactiveContent: UnreachableDNS: NXDOMAINRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observation알 수 없음Probe Inconclusive20%2026-10-19 02:19:18 UTC
RDAP registration알 수 없음
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-12 22:34:40 UTClast content: 2026-10-12 22:34:40 UTCcurrent episode first observed: 2026-10-13 20:21:07 UTCobserved RIP window: 2026-10-12 22:34:40 UTC → 2026-10-13 20:21:07 UTC · 21.77hmidpoint estimate ≈ 2026-10-13 09:27:53 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.
Recorded subdomains1
Hostnames retained in the domain record or Certificate Transparency cache. A hostname alone does not establish current availability or malicious activity.
www.en.24smartinvest.liveDomain record
The original observation time is not recorded for these hostnames.
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After a phishing incident
피해자를 위한 권고 사항 및 조언
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
지금 당장 어떻게 해야 할까요?
긴급
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
모든 비밀번호 변경 — 이메일, 익스체인지 계정 등, 동일한 비밀번호를 사용하는 모든 것
2단계 인증 활성화 인증 앱(SMS 제외)을 사용합니다. SMS 기반 복구 기능을 비활성화하세요.
카드 동결 피싱 사이트에 은행 계좌 정보를 입력한 경우
보고서를 작성하기 위해 어떤 정보를 수집해야 할까요?
FBI 지침
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.
정확한 날짜 및 시간 — 각 거래 내역 및 사기범과의 첫 접촉 시점
스크린샷 — 사기 웹사이트, 채팅 메시지, 이메일, 지갑 거래, 소셜 미디어
모든 URL 및 도메인 사기꾼이 사용한 (다음과 같은 것들을 포함하여 24smartinvest.live)
커뮤니케이션 — 사기꾼이 사용한 이메일, 문자, 전화번호, 사용자 이름
비록 모든 세부 사항을 알지 못하더라도 — 어쨌든 신고를 하세요. 부분적인 정보라도 수사에 도움이 됩니다.
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
지역 경찰 — 비록 당장 조치를 취할 수는 없더라도 공식 기록을 남깁니다
A report is not a guarantee of recovery or investigation, but prompt, accurate transaction data can help authorities and service providers trace the incident.
How do phishing scams typically work?
가짜 웹사이트 — 도메인을 약간만 변경한, 정식 사이트와 픽셀 단위로 완벽하게 일치하는 복제 사이트
pig butchering — Telegram·왓츠앱·데이트 앱을 통해 몇 주에 걸쳐 신뢰를 쌓은 뒤, 돈을 훔쳐갔다
회복 사기 — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
AI를 이용한 사기 — 딥페이크, 자동화된 피싱, AI로 생성된 사이트 등으로 인해 사기 행각을 적발하기가 더 어려워지고 있다
앞으로 어떻게 하면 스스로를 지킬 수 있을까요?
공식 사이트 즐겨찾기 추가 — 이메일, DM 또는 광고에 포함된 링크는 절대 클릭하지 마세요
도메인 확인 — 확인하기 PhishDestroy 상호작용을 시작하기 전에 HTTPS, 맞춤법, 도메인 등록 기간을 확인하세요.
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.
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