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{"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"7b9afff0-7f9a-4c9c-b209-1f63641f852d","kind":"publish","page_slug":"trusteplusglobal-com","published_at":"2026-09-12T17:39:17.113Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"trusteplusglobal.com","sections":[{"content":"trusteplusglobal.com was registered on October 14, 2025, through Tucows Domains Inc. The registration is set to expire on October 14, 2026, giving it a one-year registration term — a pattern frequently observed in short-lived scam or phishing domains. The registrant's identity is fully redacted under WHOIS privacy protection. Nameservers are Cloudflare (emerie.ns.cloudflare.com and wilson.ns.cloudflare.com), and the domain resolves to IP address 172.67.165.213. The domain carries two active status flags: clientTransferProhibited and clientUpdateProhibited. No organization name, physical address, or operator identity is publicly associated with the registration record.","heading":"Domain Identity and Registration","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"WHOIS record for trusteplusglobal.com via who.is","type":"other","url":"https://who.is/whois/trusteplusglobal.com"}]},{"content":"The domain name trusteplusglobal.com is a close typographic variation of the brand used by Trustee Global UAB, a Lithuanian-registered virtual asset service provider (VASP) that operates the Trustee Plus crypto wallet under the domains trusteeglobal.com and trusteeglobal.eu. The substitution of 'trustee' with 'truste' and the addition of 'plus' before 'global' produces a domain that plausibly mimics the legitimate brand's naming convention. This type of construction — inserting or transposing characters in a well-known brand's domain — is a recognized technique used in phishing campaigns and fake investment platforms. No statement from Trustee Global UAB confirming or denying any association with trusteplusglobal.com has been found.","heading":"Brand Impersonation Risk","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Global UAB official website (trusteeglobal.com)","type":"official","url":"https://trusteeglobal.com/about-us/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Plus official site (trusteeglobal.eu)","type":"official","url":"https://trusteeglobal.eu/"}]},{"content":"A Google site-search for trusteplusglobal.com returns no indexed pages from the domain itself, meaning the site either has not been crawled and indexed, actively blocks crawlers, or its content has not attracted organic linking. This absence of any public footprint is unusual for a legitimate financial or crypto service. Platforms that advertise investment products or crypto services typically accumulate third-party references, app store listings, or review mentions. The complete absence of such references as of September 2026 — nearly one year after registration — is consistent with either an inactive domain being held for future deployment or a site operating below public radar to avoid scrutiny. No app store listings, forum discussions, or credible third-party mentions of this specific domain were located.","heading":"Web Presence and Indexation","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Google site-search query for trusteplusglobal.com — no results returned","type":"other","url":"https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atruseplusglobal.com"}]},{"content":"No enforcement actions, complaints, or investigations by the SEC, CFTC, FTC, FCA, or any other financial regulator specifically naming trusteplusglobal.com have been located in publicly available records as of September 2026. No court filings, indictments, or civil suits referencing this domain were found. The absence of a regulatory record does not indicate legitimacy; it may reflect that the domain is too new or obscure to have drawn formal regulatory attention. Any user who believes they have been defrauded through this domain may file a complaint with the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) at ic3.gov or with their national financial regulator.","heading":"Regulatory and Enforcement Record","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"SEC EDGAR full-text search — no results for trusteplusglobal","type":"regulatory","url":"https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22trusteplusglobal%22&dateRange=custom&startdt=2020-01-01&enddt=2026-09-12"},{"credibility":1,"name":"FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.ic3.gov/"}]},{"content":"For context, the legitimate brand being mimicked — Trustee Global UAB — is a Lithuanian-registered company that operates the Trustee Plus crypto wallet application. It holds VASP authorization in Lithuania and has been reviewed by multiple crypto media outlets. Trustee Plus has received mixed reviews on Trustpilot: some users report satisfactory service, while others have described prolonged fund freezes under AML review processes and difficulties with customer support. Trustpilot removed a number of reviews for the platform for guideline violations. These complaints relate to trusteeglobal.eu and trusteeglobal.com — not to trusteplusglobal.com. This context is included solely to clarify the brand relationship and is not an attribution of those complaints to the domain under investigation.","heading":"Context: Trustee Global UAB and Trustee Plus","severity":"low","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Plus Reviews on Trustpilot (trusteeglobal.eu)","type":"community_report","url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/review/trusteeglobal.eu"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Plus Review — Traders Union","type":"research","url":"https://tradersunion.com/best-crypto-wallets/trustee-plus/"}]}],"sources_used":[{"credibility":2,"name":"WHOIS record for trusteplusglobal.com via who.is","type":"other","url":"https://who.is/whois/trusteplusglobal.com"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Global UAB official About Us page","type":"official","url":"https://trusteeglobal.com/about-us/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Plus official site (trusteeglobal.eu)","type":"official","url":"https://trusteeglobal.eu/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Plus Reviews on Trustpilot","type":"community_report","url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/review/trusteeglobal.eu"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Plus Review — Traders Union","type":"research","url":"https://tradersunion.com/best-crypto-wallets/trustee-plus/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Trustee Wallet Reviews on Trustpilot (trusteeglobal.com)","type":"community_report","url":"https://www.trustpilot.com/review/trusteeglobal.com"},{"credibility":1,"name":"FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.ic3.gov/"}],"summary":"trusteplusglobal.com is a domain registered in October 2025 whose name closely mimics 'Trustee Plus Global,' the branding used by the established Lithuanian crypto wallet operator Trustee Global UAB (trusteeglobal.com / trusteeglobal.eu). The domain has no public web presence indexed by search engines, carries privacy-protected WHOIS registration, and was registered for only a one-year term — structural patterns commonly associated with phishing or impersonation infrastructure. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 investigative reporting directly attributing confirmed fraud to this specific domain has been found as of September 2026.","timeline":[{"date":"2025-10-14","event":"trusteplusglobal.com domain registered via Tucows Domains Inc. with WHOIS privacy protection active.","source":"WHOIS record via who.is","source_url":"https://who.is/whois/trusteplusglobal.com"},{"date":"2025-11-26","event":"WHOIS record for trusteplusglobal.com last updated, with no change to registrant privacy status.","source":"WHOIS record via who.is","source_url":"https://who.is/whois/trusteplusglobal.com"},{"date":"2026-09-12","event":"AVOID.NET investigation conducted. No indexed public web presence found. No regulatory actions identified. Domain remains active and resolves via Cloudflare infrastructure.","source":"AVOID.NET research","source_url":"https://www.avoid.net/trusteplusglobal-com"}]},"v":1}