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TSyingchai
post May 20 2019, 01:37 AM, updated 7y ago

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Hi,

Recently, I enrolled to one investment class and the tutor recommend the students to buy this investment tools, which is claimed from UK.

All the information is displayed on the website below:
https://www.platinumcapitalsystem.com

Is there anyway to find out whether the website is really registered in UK or it's a scam whereby the site owner register it in Malaysia and merely publish a UK address just as fake contact?
syakirin79
post May 20 2019, 01:43 AM

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Domain Name: PLATINUMCAPITALSYSTEM.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2364433965_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.wix.com
Registrar URL: http://www.wix.com
Updated Date: 2019-02-27T04:27:27Z
Creation Date: 2019-02-27T04:27:26Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-02-27T04:27:26Z
Registrar: Wix.com Ltd.



The domain juat registered almost 3 months ago

use domain whois to check the domain registration.
syakirin79
post May 20 2019, 01:46 AM

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QUOTE(syakirin79 @ May 20 2019, 01:43 AM)
Domain Name: PLATINUMCAPITALSYSTEM.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2364433965_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.wix.com
Registrar URL: http://www.wix.com
Updated Date: 2019-02-27T04:27:27Z
Creation Date: 2019-02-27T04:27:26Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-02-27T04:27:26Z
Registrar: Wix.com Ltd.
The domain juat registered almost 3 months ago

use domain whois to check the domain registration.
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i won't trust this website. so much claim in the about page. but the website merely 3 months old.
kaysure
post May 20 2019, 02:23 AM

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https://www.platinumcapitalsystem.com

Is there anyway to find out whether the website is really registered in UK or it's a scam whereby the site owner register it in Malaysia and merely publish a UK address just as fake contact?

## Website (the domain, that is platinumcapitalsystem.com) is registered in US, not the U.K.

This website is a suspect based on the information below.





---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SSL certification information

## The SSL certificate on this website is valid from ‎Monday, ‎29 ‎April, ‎2019 12:24:23 PM to ‎Sunday, ‎28 ‎July, ‎2019 12:24:23 PM.
This means it will expire in 2 months and 8 days. Looks like a temporarily arrangement.
Normally an SSL certificate is for a duration of a year. If you click on the lock icon next to https://www.platinumcapitalsystem.com and click Certificate and then click on Details tab, you will see the above information.
Strangely, this SSL certificate offers no additional information about the website, like its location or country or the like.


Compared to a website like maybank2u.com

CN = www.maybank.com
O = Malayan Banking Berhad
L = Kuala Lumpur
C = MY
SERIALNUMBER = 3813-K
1.3.6.1.4.1.311.60.2.1.3 = MY
2.5.4.15 = Private Organization


for the website https://www.platinumcapitalsystem.com, only the following is listed.

CN = platinumcapitalsystem.com

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------website domain information

## If you check the whois information for https://www.platinumcapitalsystem.com,

Domain Name: PLATINUMCAPITALSYSTEM.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2364433965_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.wix.com
Registrar URL: http://www.wix.com
Updated Date: 2019-02-27T04:32:27
Creation Date: 2019-02-27T04:27:26
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-02-27T04:27:26
Registrar: Wix.Com Ltd.
Registrar IANA ID: 3817
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Registrant ID:
Registrant Name: Wix.com Ltd.
Registrant Organization: Wix.com Ltd.
Registrant Street: 500 Terry Francois Blvd
Registrant City: San Francisco
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 94158
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.4154291173
Registrant Phone Ext:
Registrant Fax:
Registrant Fax Ext:
Registrant Email: email@wix-domains.com

The domain is registered at San Francisco, US at Wix.com.
Again, strangely no information about the owner or company is listed.
If you go to wix.com, it states that they provide webhosting services and also domain registration.
Thus, the person from https://www.platinumcapitalsystem.com registered their domain platinumcapitalsystem.com
via Wix.com and also hosted the webpage on Wix.com webservers.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------information from nameserver lookup

C:\Users\pristine>nslookup
Default Server: dns.quad9.net
Address: 9.9.9.9

> platinumcapitalsystem.com
Server: dns.quad9.net
Address: 9.9.9.9

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: platinumcapitalsystem.com
Address: 23.236.62.147

The nslookup command reveals the ip address of the platinumcapitalsystem.com webserver hosted at wix.com.
Wix.com is connected onto a telco or ISP, which is Google at California, US.


https://ipinfo.io/23.236.62.147

IP ADDRESS DETAILS
23.236.62.147
Mountain View, California, United States

Location

CityMountain View
RegionCalifornia
Postal Code94043
Coordinates 37.4043,-122.0750
CountryUnited States

Connection
Hostname147.62.236.23.bc.googleusercontent.com
Address typeIPv4
ASNAS15169 Google LLC
OrganizationGoogle LLC
Route23.236.48.0/20


inodekira
post May 20 2019, 03:21 AM

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QUOTE(kaysure @ May 20 2019, 02:23 AM)
3 month SSL certs are quite common,usually its from Let's Encrypt a free SSL certificate provider

This post has been edited by inodekira: May 20 2019, 03:31 AM
kaysure
post May 20 2019, 04:35 PM

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Thanks for the info.
Champinidan
post May 20 2019, 06:14 PM

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There is a lot of confusion with all that SSL certificates. Some may expired, some may be not from good solid broker or something like that. If they are doing some legit business - there is nothing to hide under whois anyway. Are you with me here ?
TSyingchai
post May 21 2019, 02:12 PM

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QUOTE(Champinidan @ May 20 2019, 06:14 PM)
There is a lot of confusion with all that SSL certificates. Some may expired, some may be not from good solid broker or something like that. If they are doing some legit business - there is nothing to hide under whois anyway. Are you with me here ?
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So, is this website legit?
Chelsea01
post Jan 28 2020, 08:38 PM

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The best way I've founf out to spot a fake website is observing its web address.
You can tell that if the website has https at the beginning then it is not a fake website.
If the website doesn't have https in the beginning then it may not be a real website.
It is not going to work 100% of the time, but it'll surely work most of the time.

I hope this helps!

 

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