Who Is Coin Trading Global? Unmasking The Operators
Cybertrace is looking at the cntrd-global.com website to see if it is a scam, and to help the reader understand the signs to look for. At first glance, the Coin Trading Global website looks like a legitimate entity to the untrained eye. The website claims to offer trading accounts for stocks, crypto, commodities, indices, forex and metals.
The website interface looks a bit outdated, and the use of Serif fonts in the headings seems unusual. You’d expect to see Serif fonts in newspapers…not on websites.
No evidence of the company being a legit registered business that is regulated to offer financial trading services can be found on the home page. Red flag! Additionally, there is no information on the website that explains who runs the company, who the founder is, or who the team are.
The Regulatory Status: Is Coin Trading Global Legit?
Open source searches to determine if Coin Trading Global is a licensed entity revealed an Investor Warning page on moneysmart.gov.au.
The investor warning page lists the website cointrading-global.net and says that it is an unlicensed trader. Searches of the Internet Archive revealed a version of cointrading-global.net, and it looks identical to cntrd-global.com. This is a massive red flag and clearly points out that the two websites are linked, and that cntrd-global.com is likely unlicensed as well.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250321020104/https://cointrading-global.net/
It is common practice with scam trading websites to clone a website’s content and move it to a new domain name once it has been reported online and gets bad reviews for the original domain. It is very uncommon for legitimate companies to change their websites like this, and it is a strong indication that this is not a real trading platform.
Searches of company records revealed a listing for a dissolved entity in the UK named Coin Trading Global Digital Assets Exchange Limited. It is a common practice for fraudulent entities to impersonate companies, a cursory search will reveal a company by the same or a similar name.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/11326778
This company was dissolved in 2019, however, the Internet Archive of cointrading-global.net only has snapshots from 2025. It is unlikely that the dissolved company is related to cointrading-global.net or cntrd-global.com, it may be that the operators of these websites were trying to impersonate this company.
Searches of the financial regulators FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) and FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) did not reveal any licensing details for Coin Trading Global. For a company to be a real provider of financial services, licenses are required. Legitimate entities will clearly display this information, making it easy for their users to verify this information.
Looking at the image below, we can see the website of Interactive Brokers Australia, a legitimate broker. Here, we can clearly see the company number, regulator, and financial service license. If this information is not easy to see it’s a major red flag.
Unrealistic Promises: The Red Flag Of “Boundless Profit Potential”
The home page of the cntrd-global.com website states that cryptocurrency offers “boundless profit potential”, which is a bold and unrealistic claim. The fact is that trading of any kind involves risk, and cryptocurrency is no exception. By its nature, the cryptocurrency market is volatile, which means it’s very easy to lose money.
The operators of cntrd-global.com claiming that users have “boundless profit potential” certainly raises a red flag. This is a common type of unfounded and unrealistic claim that we see time and time again on unregulated fraudulent trading websites.
Analysing The User Experience (The Scam Tactics)
How Does The Scam Work? The Phony Dashboard And Fake Profits
What we see time and again with scam trading websites is a trading interface that tells the user that they are making profits, when they aren’t. They get tricked into sending crypto to a wallet address that is meant to top up their trading account on the website, but it doesn’t.
Then they can get strung along for many months, believing that they are making large gains by trading on the fraudulent platform. But these profits are not real, and no investment has even been made, these platforms are just a fake user interface that is made to make it appear that money is being made and everything is as good as it seems.
The only time there is a problem is when the user decides they want to withdraw their “profit”. Many people will be fooled completely until they actually try to withdraw their funds.
Once they realise that they aren’t able to withdraw their funds, they finally realise that they have been caught up in a scam. By this point, it is too late…
The Withdrawal Trap: Why Can’t I Get My Money Back?
Commonly, what we see in these types of scams is that the fraudulent operators try to convince the scam victims that they will need to pay “fees”, “taxes”, “insurance”, or “commissions” before they can access and withdraw their money. This is what is known as an Exit Scam.
After convincing people to add their own funds to the trading website, then convincing them that there are profits when there aren’t, they then try to extract more money from the victims. They tell them that these “fees” need to be paid before a withdrawal can be made, and promise that once these payments are made, they can get their money back.
However, the scammers never planned to do this in the first place. There are always more fees or taxes to pay, problems that need more money to resolve and if you just send a bit more money, it will all be fine, and you get all the money back.
The Pressure Tactics: Unsolicited Contact And Urgency
Often, when the scammers are trying to convince people to pay the imaginary “fees” to get their money back, they put pressure on the victims and tell them they need to do it before a certain date and time. Applying this kind of pressure and urgency to the victim when they still think the platform is legitimate can really help to push them over the edge to send extra money.
Additionally, the scammers will sometimes contact the victims from a different email address and alias, claiming to be someone higher up in the “company” or claiming to be a financial officer or similar. This is another tactic that can help to tip people over the edge and hand over more money.
Scammers are expert manipulators, and they will say whatever they have to, they make promises and reassurances to lure in victims and use pressure tactics and the threat of losing money to extract as much money as they can.
Analysis Of The cntrd-global.com Website
Analysis of the cntrd-global.com website revealed that there is no information anywhere on the website about a legitimate licence held by the “company”. This is a massive red flag. The company name “Coin Trading Global” is listed in the footer, however, as we identified already, there are no real company records to be found anywhere for this fraudulent entity.
The footer lists office hours, but no street address. Instant red flag!
Clicking on the “Login” button takes the user to the subdomain cfd.cntrd-global.com. Of note, the “Coin Trading Global” logo on the login page aligns with the logo on the associated cointrading-global.net website that was identified earlier. This provides another direct link between these two websites.
The Privacy Policy page looks like a template that has simply been copied from elsewhere. Another red flag is raised here…
Of particular note, the KYC page mentions Rock-Coins in the first sentence, Cybertrace has previously investigated rock-coins.net and confirmed it to be a fraudulent investment website. It is likely that the operators of cntrd-global.com are the same fraudsters behind rock-coins.net.
It is common to find the names of other websites/brands on the privacy, terms and conditions and disclaimers type pages. These are leftovers from when the scammers clone the previous website, then overlook fully updating the text content.
Verification And Safety
The Domain Name Trail: Connecting cntrd-global.com To A Network of Scams
As mentioned previously, it is clear that the cntrd-global.com domain is directly linked to the cointrading-global.net website, which looks to be close to identical.
Checks were conducted on cntrd-global.com with a copy plagiarism tool, which identified two websites with a large percentage of content that is the same.
https://www.cycle-solutions.org/ – 100%
https://vergo-strategy.com/ – 72%
It is highly likely these two websites are also controlled by the Coin Trading Global scammers.
Additionally, analysis of the subdomains of cntrd-global.com revealed that some are hosted on Namecheap, Inc and some are hosted on Datacamp Limited (A subdomain is a prefix added to a main domain name to create a separate, distinct section of a website).
The subdomain cfd.cntrd-global.com was found to be hosted on the IP address 148.135.195.249 owned by Datacamp Limited.
The IP address 148.135.195.249 only hosts 21 subdomains that all look related, so this appears to be a dedicated server operated by the Coin Trading Global syndicate. The subdomains hosted on the IP address 148.135.195.249 are as follows:
cfd.safe-horizon.vip
socket.vergo-blockchain.com
cfd.vergo-blockchain.com
cfd.capitalplaceltd.com
cfd.cpg-ltd.org
socket.capitalplaceltd.com
api.cpg-ltd.org
socket.cap-wallet.com
cfd.eliteai-t.com
cfd.cntrd-global.com
socket.eliteai-t.com
socket.cntrd-global.com
socket.safe-horizon.vip
api.eliteai-t.com
api.vergo-blockchain.com
api.capitalplaceltd.com
socket.cpg-ltd.org
api.safe-horizon.vip
api.cntrd-global.com
Taking a quick look at the root domains of these subdomains shows that a number of them have suspicious looking trading websites that are in the French language. Here’s a few examples:
Clearly, the syndicate operating cntrd-global.com and the abovementioned websites is also targeting French speaking people directly. The operators would likely be running ads in France (and other locations where French is spoken), directing unsuspecting users to the French versions of these fraudulent websites.
Protect Yourself: 5 Steps To Verify Any Online Trading Platform
- Check if the entity is licensed. Do not proceed if no legitimate licence can be located.
- Use a search engine to try and find investor warnings about the website, or if it appears on any warning lists.
- Scrutinise the contact and company details, lookup physical addresses to see if there is any record of the business being located there.
- Check the age of the domain. If the website claims to have been established for 10 years but the domain is only 2 months old it’s very likely it’s a fraudulent entity.
- Reject high-pressure, unsolicited contact from the website operators – this one is a dead giveaway!
Conclusion
If you are unsure that a website you are dealing with is legit, we can help you to determine that with one of our investment due diligence reports. Additionally, if you have been caught up in a complicated investment scam already, our cyber scam investigators and website forensics team can investigate your case.
It also pays to play it safe online and do your own due diligence with any kind of online trading websites, especially before you seriously consider handing over any of your hard earned cash. A little bit of quick research could save you from being scammed.
Cybertrace specialises in investigating online scams – we are Australia’s leading Cyber Investigators. Have you, or has someone you know been caught up in a trading scam online? Contact Cybertrace now and we can assess your case.
