gfxtrade.com operates as a fraudulent investment platform designed to lure cryptocurrency traders and retail investors with promises of trading returns or portfolio growth. PhishDestroy first identified it as a threat on 2026-09-11, and as of 2026-10-19 the site remains fully live with active content. The domain has existed since 2016-11-28, giving it an aged appearance that may lend false credibility to potential victims.
How the scam works
Investment scam platforms of this type typically present a professional-looking trading dashboard where victims are encouraged to deposit cryptocurrency or fiat funds to begin earning returns. Once funds are deposited, the platform may show fabricated profits to build confidence and encourage larger deposits, a tactic known as a pig-butchering or advance-fee scheme. Withdrawals are then blocked, delayed, or made conditional on additional fees, and the operators ultimately disappear with all deposited funds. The site currently presents a Cloudflare challenge page titled "Just a moment...", which differs from the investment platform interface the classification describes.
Evidence
Five of 89 security engines on VirusTotal flagged gfxtrade.com as malicious as of 2026-09-24, with detections from CRDF, Forcepoint ThreatSeeker, PhishFort, SOCRadar, and VIPRE. While five detections represent a minority of engines tested, the combination of specialist threat-intelligence vendors and anti-phishing services among those flagging it carries meaningful weight. The domain also appears in four threat-intelligence pulses on AlienVault OTX and is listed on the PhishDestroy blocklist.
Infrastructure
The domain was registered on 2016-11-28 through NameCheap, Inc. and is routed through Cloudflare, Inc. infrastructure with a hosting presence in Canada. The TLS certificate is issued by 103.41.71.252, an IP-based issuer rather than a recognized certificate authority, which is atypical for a legitimate trading platform.
What to do
If you visited gfxtrade.com and entered personal information, account credentials, or payment details, treat those credentials as compromised and change them immediately, and contact your bank or payment provider if any financial transfer was made. Do not send additional funds under any circumstances, including if the platform demands fees to unlock a withdrawal. Security teams should block gfxtrade.com at the DNS and network perimeter level and add it to internal threat-intelligence feeds. Report any contact from operators to your national financial regulator and cybercrime authority.
Saved certificate metadata. Certificate dates without a timezone are shown as stored. Transport encryption does not establish that the site is trustworthy.
Evidence layersAvailability: Content servingContent: Content served at rootDNS: ResolvedRegistration: Unknown
Latest HTTP observationConteúdo ativoOrdinary HTTP content served90%2026-10-19 22:31:11 UTC
RDAP registrationDesconhecido
Observed timelinelast reachable: 2026-10-19 22:35:32 UTClast content: 2026-10-19 22:31:11 UTC
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.
Tecnologias · 3 identified
Cloudflare Browser Insights
AnalyticsRUM
Cloudflare Browser Insights is a tool that measures the performance of websites from the perspective of users.
Cloudflare is a web-infrastructure and website-security company, providing content-delivery-network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain-name-server services.
Os relacionamentos armazenados são agrupados pelo atributo de correspondência exata. Um provedor ou registrador compartilhado por si só não prova propriedade comum.
Mesmo registrador: NameCheap6
Registrados pelo mesmo registrador. Um registrador atende a milhões de clientes sem qualquer relação entre si; portanto, isso apenas agrupa os registros, em vez de comprovar uma ligação.
2 evidence signal groups linked0 stored notification recordsÚltimo ativo conhecido
Listed domains receive at least one abuse report; this entry has no retained notification history.
If credentials were compromised, report immediately. Do not engage with recovery scammers.
Se você inseriu credenciais de conta, informações pessoais ou de pagamento, ou baixou um arquivo deste domínio, tome medidas imediatas. Abaixo estão os recursos para ajudá-lo a relatar o incidente e se proteger.
Cuidado com os golpistas que prometem recuperação! Os criminosos podem entrar em contato novamente com as vítimas fingindo ser investigadores, advogados ou agentes de recuperação. Não pague taxas antecipadas nem compartilhe credenciais.Saiba mais sobre fraudes relacionadas à recuperação →
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After a phishing incident
Recomendações e orientações para as vítimas
Choose the steps that match what you shared. Keep a copy of this report alongside your own records.
O que devo fazer agora mesmo?
Urgente
Stop using the suspicious site. Open the real service through its official app or an address you already trust.
Alterar todas as senhas — e-mail, contas do Exchange, qualquer coisa que use a mesma senha
Ativar a autenticação de dois fatores usando um aplicativo autenticador (não por SMS). Desative a recuperação por SMS
Cartões de congelamento se você inseriu dados bancários no site de phishing
Que informações devo coletar para o meu relatório?
Diretrizes do FBI
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.
Datas e horários exatos — de cada transação e do primeiro contato com o golpista
Capturas de tela — sites fraudulentos, mensagens de bate-papo, e-mails, transações em carteiras digitais, redes sociais
Todas as URLs e domínios utilizado pelo golpista (incluindo gfxtrade.com)
Comunicações — e-mails, mensagens de texto, números de telefone e nomes de usuário que o golpista utilizou
Mesmo que você não tenha todos os detalhes — registre uma ocorrência mesmo assim. Mesmo informações parciais ainda ajudam nas investigações.
A quem devo denunciar o golpe?
FBI IC3 — Centro de Denúncias de Crimes na Internet (sistema federal de denúncias dos EUA)
Europol — Relatórios sobre crimes cibernéticos na Europa (UE)
Your bank or payment provider — contact its fraud team promptly through official contact details if money or card information was exposed.
Polícia local — cria um registro oficial, mesmo que não possam agir imediatamente
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?
Sites falsos — clones idênticos, até o último pixel, de sites legítimos, com domínios ligeiramente alterados
Abate de suínos — confiança construída ao longo de semanas pelo Telegram, WhatsApp e aplicativos de namoro; em seguida, o dinheiro foi roubado
Golpes relacionados à recuperação — fraudsters pose as recovery agents and demand upfront fees. Never share a seed phrase or pay before independently verifying the provider
Golpes baseados em IA — deepfakes, phishing automatizado e sites gerados por IA, o que torna a fraude mais difícil de detectar
Como posso me proteger no futuro?
Adicione os sites oficiais aos favoritos — nunca clique em links de e-mails, mensagens diretas ou anúncios
Verificar domínios — verificar PhishDestroy antes de interagir. Verifique se o site usa HTTPS, a ortografia e a idade do domínio
"Bom demais para ser verdade" = golpe — retornos garantidos, endossos de celebridades, prazos urgentes
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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