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Is that trading bot legit, or a scam?

Paste a bot’s name or website. We check it against 610 official scam and enforcement records and 102 documented bots, each with real pricing, real exchanges and real incidents, all sourced.

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102bots documented from official sources
610scam & enforcement records, each linked to the regulator
17bots whose report card shows Caution or Red flags, each fact sourced
74Hyperliquid vaults ranked from on-chain data
How it works

Three checks before you hand a bot your money

1

Is it on a watchlist?

We search the California DFPI Crypto Scam Tracker and SEC/CFTC enforcement actions. Every entry links the official record.

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2

Is it what it says it is?

For real bots we document pricing, supported exchanges, how it connects to your money and any security incidents, each with a source link.

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3

Does the track record exist?

“Our bot made 40% last month” is easy to fake. Hyperliquid vault returns are public and on-chain, so we rank those instead.

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A

Report cards

Every bot gets a rule-based result: Closed 9 · Caution 17 · Limited data 6 · Clear record 70. Each one shows the exact facts behind it.

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B

Paste a website

Check a link someone sent you for look-alike domains, regulator scam-list matches, domain age and HTTPS. Signals, not a verdict.

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C

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Follow new regulator cases, shutdowns and report-card changes in the changelog or the Atom feed, or watch a single bot by email.

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Recently on the record

What regulators found inside “AI trading bots”

SEC · Sep 29, 2026

TSAI Pro Ltd & TSAI Capital Foundation

“Renting 'bots programmed with artificial intelligence' to trade for you, with guaranteed profits and recruiting bonuses”

More than $2.8 million

Official SEC source ↗
SEC · Sep 29, 2026

Cryptoaiml Ltd & Cryptoaiml Capital Foundation

“WhatsApp groups issuing supposed 'AI-generated trading signals', then a fake trading platform”

More than $12.5 million

Official SEC source ↗
CFTC · Sep 25, 2026

Cash FX Group S.A.

“Forex pool said to trade with 'professional traders, proprietary bots, and artificial intelligence'”

About $950 million

Official CFTC source ↗
CFTC · Dec 19, 2025

Wolf Capital Crypto Trading LLC (Travis Ford)

“Crypto commodity pool posting weekly 'trading bot' profit summaries”

More than $10 million

Official CFTC source ↗
SEC · May 29, 2026

Privvy Investments LLC (Nathan Fuller)

“'Proprietary AI-based trading bots' doing high-frequency crypto arbitrage”

About $12.3 million from about 150 investors

Official SEC source ↗
SEC · Apr 22, 2025

PGI Global (Ramil Palafox)

“Membership packages promising guaranteed returns from crypto and forex trading”

About $198 million raised; more than $57 million misappropriated

Official SEC source ↗

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Real bots, real incidents

Even legit bots have had bad days

25 of the 102 bots we document have a security incident, enforcement action or shutdown on record. We list them plainly, with sources, so you can weigh them yourself.

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  • 3CommasDec 28, 2022: an anonymous account leaked a database of roughly 100,000 exchange API keys; 3Commas confirmed the data came from its systems.
  • ZignalyZignaly is closing. All trading services and Z-Indexes close at 10:00 UTC on Oct 16, 2026 (3:00 AM PT) and funds return to Zignaly balances. The last day to withdraw is Dec 1, 2026 at 23:59 UTC. Withdraw to your own wallet before then.
  • Binance Trading BotsDec 12, 2023: Binance and its CEO agreed to pay $2.85 billion to settle CFTC charges including willfully evading U.S. law and illegally operating a digital asset derivatives exchange (a parent-exchange matter, not specific to the bot product).
  • Bybit Trading BotsFeb 21, 2025: about $1.5B in virtual assets was stolen from the Bybit exchange. The FBI attributed the theft to North Korea. This was an exchange-level incident, not a problem with the bot product.
  • KuCoin Trading BotsJan 27, 2025: KuCoin's operator pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, agreed to pay more than $297M, and agreed that KuCoin will exit the US market for at least two years.