Risk scorecard
Each area is scored 0 (clean) to 10 (worst). Higher means more risk.
Regulation
9/10 · CriticalNo licence of any kind in any jurisdiction while operating as a retail forex brand, and the brand it used belongs to a regulated group it had no connection to.
Identity & transparency
9/10 · CriticalNo legal entity, registration number, address or owner ever disclosed, no corporate registry trace, and the web address changed twice in a year.
Withdrawals & conduct
5/10 · ModerateOne credible fund-loss report naming this address, but with no amounts, dates or second platform behind it, so the pattern stays unconfirmed.
Reputation
7/10 · HighThe only footprint that exists is negative, including a fake-broker classification and a scam report, with no positive client record of any kind.
Website claims
8/10 · CriticalPresented itself under a regulated group's brand it had no relationship with, though the pages themselves can no longer be read first hand.
Operational history
8/10 · CriticalThree addresses in roughly 18 months on a six-month cadence, then abandoned entirely, which is churn rather than a track record.
Who they are
A quick desk file on the company behind the brand.
- Brand: IC Markets, used without authority. The genuine IC Markets group is a separate, regulated business with no connection to this operation.
- Legal entity: none disclosed. No company name, registration number or owner was ever published.
- Registered: no registered address published, and no corporate registry entry found.
- Website: 9pfx.com, live from 27 April 2021 to roughly November 2021. It no longer resolves.
- Earlier addresses: p8fxs.com from June 2020 and z6fxs.com from November 2020.
- Only licence: none. No regulator in any jurisdiction lists this operation.
- Offers: retail foreign exchange trading, sold through LINE rather than an open website funnel.
- Not accepted: no published terms, no restricted-country list and no client agreement were ever available.
- Age claim: none that can be evidenced. The site is gone and no archived copy of its pages exists.
Regulation
Who really oversees this broker, and what each licence is worth to you.
Proof of regulation on an official register: No
We could not confirm this broker on any genuine regulator’s register.
No licence claims on record.
Why we reached this verdict
How the evidence adds up.
We rate this a likely scam rather than a confirmed one. The pattern is clear and the supporting records are solid, but the site itself is gone, so part of the case rests on documentary records rather than on pages we could read.
- The brand belongs to someone else. The Financial Conduct Authority states that the genuine firm is IC MARKETS (EU) LTD, reference 827935, and warns that scammers are falsely claiming the IC Markets name and registration numbers. The group's own regulation page names Raw Trading Ltd (Seychelles FSA, SD018) and IC Markets (EU) Ltd (CySEC, 362/18), and lists its official web addresses. 9pfx.com is absent from all of them.
- The six-month rotation is confirmed, not merely alleged. A user report filed on 21 June 2021 said one group ran p8fxs.com from June 2020, then z6fxs.com from November 2020, then 9pfx.com from 27 April 2021. Public certificate logs put the first certificate for those three sites at 5 June 2020, 9 November 2020 and 27 April 2021. The report matches the record to the day on all three, which is not something a casual complaint invents.
- Shared infrastructure ties the earlier sites together. Both predecessor domains took their first certificates from the same certificate authority, follow the same naming pattern, and ran back to back rather than side by side.
- No licence and no company. The operation published no legal entity, no registration number and no address, and appears on no regulator's register. A business holding client money with none of that disclosed leaves a client no route to recover anything.
- It was built to disappear. Only one host name ever existed at 9pfx.com, with no client area or trading subdomain of its own. Certificates stopped being renewed in August 2021 and the domain was later allowed to lapse entirely.
- What we did not find. No regulator warning names 9pfx.com. The FCA notice on IC Markets clones lists five other websites instead. There is no enforcement action and no court record naming this domain, and that is why the verdict is likely rather than confirmed.
Note on operating history: the 6.3-year track record rests on domain registration alone. No company incorporation date could be established, so this is an upper bound rather than a confirmed age.
Evidence ledger
Every finding, with its source and how strongly it points.
E1The anchor domain 9pfx.com returns no address record and holds no entry in the .com registry, so the site is not merely offline but gone.
ModerateGoogle Public DNSE2The only certificates ever issued for this site cover www.9pfx.com, first on 27 April 2021 and last on 5 August 2021, expiring 3 November 2021. No client area or trading subdomain ever existed.
E3The predecessor domain p8fxs.com took its first certificate on 5 June 2020, matching to the day the reported start of the earlier site run by the same operation.
E4The predecessor domain z6fxs.com took its first certificate on 9 November 2020 from the same certificate authority as p8fxs.com, completing a back-to-back six-month rotation into 9pfx.com.
E5The Financial Conduct Authority names IC MARKETS (EU) LTD, reference 827935, as the genuine authorised firm and states that scammers falsely claim the IC Markets name and registration numbers. The notice lists five other counterfeit websites and does not name 9pfx.com.
E6The genuine group's regulation page names its licensed entities, Raw Trading Ltd (Seychelles FSA SD018) and IC Markets (EU) Ltd (CySEC 362/18), and lists its official addresses as ic.com, secure.ic.com and webtrader-sc.ic.com. 9pfx.com appears nowhere on it.
E7A user report filed on 21 June 2021 named p8fxs.com, z6fxs.com and 9pfx.com as one group running identical sites, changing address every six months, taking orders through LINE and defrauding people in Taiwan. All three dates it gave match the public certificate record exactly.
ModerateA third-party broker directoryE8An independent complaint platform records a March 2023 report of a counterfeit IC Markets site at icmsfxs.com that copied the genuine site including its regulatory details, with the complainant noting the operators had moved on again. This concerns a different address in the same naming family, not 9pfx.com, and is recorded as context on the clone family rather than as a complaint about this operation.
ModerateFX110 complaint recordE9No regulator warning list, enforcement action or court record naming 9pfx.com was found, and the FCA notice on IC Markets clones lists other websites instead. This is the main point in the operation's favour and is why the verdict is likely rather than confirmed.
The other side
The strongest case in this broker’s favour.
The fair case for the other side, and what we checked before settling on this verdict.
- Could this have been a regional site of the real IC Markets? No. The group publishes its own list of official addresses and 9pfx.com is not among them. A genuine regional arm would also not change its web address twice in a year.
- Could it have been an introducing broker or affiliate using the brand legitimately? Possible in principle, but an authorised partner still names its own company, and does not take client orders through a messaging app.
- Could the complaint have been a competitor smear? This is the strongest counter-argument, and it fails on the facts. The report made three checkable claims about three domains and their start dates, and the public certificate record confirms all three.
- Could the brand simply be attached to the wrong site? The IC Markets name is tied to 9pfx.com in two separate records compiled independently of one another. Because the site itself cannot be read, we flag this as the one leg resting on records rather than on the pages, and we have not scored it as if it were proven.
- Is the absence of a regulator warning a point in its favour? Genuinely yes, and we have counted it that way. Warning lists lag, and a Taiwan-facing operation that closed in 2021 may never have been listed at all.
- Is the real IC Markets implicated? Not at all. The genuine group holds licences from ASIC, CySEC and the Seychelles FSA, and has itself warned the public about people misusing its name.
What would change this
What we would need to see to revise the verdict.
This verdict is not fixed. Any of the following would move it.
- Evidence that 9pfx.com was an authorised part of the IC Markets group, such as the group naming it in its own disclosures, would refute the central finding and clear the operation.
- An archived copy of the site showing it never used the IC Markets name would remove the impersonation leg and lower the rating.
- A regulator warning or an enforcement action naming 9pfx.com would take this from likely to confirmed.
- Two or more detailed first-hand accounts carrying amounts, dates and payment records would do the same.
- A company registration and a licence traced to the operator would change the picture, though it would not undo the use of another firm's name.
Check it yourself
Official registers and warning lists. Verify every claim first-hand.
FCA warning: IC Markets clone firms
The UK regulator names the genuine IC Markets firm and warns that its name and registration numbers are being falsely used.
IC Markets group: official entities and licences
The genuine group's own list of its licensed companies and official web addresses. 9pfx.com is not one of them.
Certificate history for 9pfx.com
Public certificate log showing every certificate ever issued for the site, and when issuance stopped.
Certificate history for the earlier domain p8fxs.com
Shows the first certificate on 5 June 2020, matching the reported start date of the earlier site.
Complaint record: a counterfeit IC Markets platform
An independent complaint platform's record of a fake IC Markets site in the same domain family.
Live DNS check for 9pfx.com
Shows the domain returns no address record.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about this broker’s safety.
Is IC Markets (9pfx.com) a scam?
We assess it as a likely scam, at 80 percent. The site used the name of the regulated IC Markets group without any connection to it, held no licence of its own, disclosed no company, and changed web address roughly every six months before disappearing in late 2021.
Is IC Markets (9pfx.com) a fraud?
We assess the risk of fraud as high, and clients in Taiwan reported being defrauded by it. No regulator or court has made a formal finding against this specific address, so we state this as our assessment rather than as an established legal fact.
Is 9pfx.com the same company as the real IC Markets?
No. The genuine IC Markets group publishes its own official web addresses, and 9pfx.com is not among them. The Financial Conduct Authority has separately warned that fraudsters falsely claim the IC Markets name and registration numbers.
Was 9pfx.com regulated by anyone?
No. It appears on no regulator's register in any jurisdiction, and it never published a licence number, a company name or a registered address. Nothing about it was supervised.
Can I still withdraw money from 9pfx.com?
No. The domain no longer resolves and holds no registry record, so there is no platform left to log in to. Anyone contacting you claiming to process a withdrawal from it is not connected to any real account.
Who owned and operated 9pfx.com?
The operators never disclosed themselves. No legal entity, registration number, address or director was ever published, and no corporate registry entry can be traced to the site. That anonymity is itself one of the strongest warning signs here.
How old was this operation?
Short-lived. Certificate records place 9pfx.com from 27 April 2021, with its final certificate expiring on 3 November 2021. Counting its two earlier addresses, the whole operation ran roughly 18 months from mid-2020 and has been dark ever since.
What were p8fxs.com and z6fxs.com?
They were the same operation under earlier addresses. Public certificate logs date p8fxs.com to 5 June 2020 and z6fxs.com to 9 November 2020, matching a user report that described one group moving to a fresh domain roughly every six months.
Why does a site change its web address every six months?
It outruns its own reputation. By the time complaints, warnings and search results accumulate against one address, the operators have moved to a clean one and are selling the same product under the same borrowed brand.
Is the real IC Markets a scam?
This report is not about the genuine firm and makes no finding against it. For the record, the IC Markets group holds licences including ASIC AFSL 335692 in Australia, CySEC 362/18 in Cyprus and Seychelles FSA SD018, and it has itself published warnings about people misusing its name.
There is no regulator warning naming 9pfx.com. Does that clear it?
No, and we have been careful to weigh it honestly. The absence of a warning is a genuine point in the operation's favour and is why our verdict is likely rather than confirmed. Warning lists lag by months and rarely catch a regional operation that shut down years ago.
What should I do if I lost money to this platform?
Gather your transfer receipts, chat history and any account screenshots, then report to your local police, and in Taiwan to the 165 anti-fraud line. Do not pay anyone who offers to recover the money for an upfront fee, as that is a common follow-up scam.
How do I check whether a broker site is the real one?
Start at the regulator's own register rather than the site in front of you. Look up the licence number, then compare the web address the register records against the one you were sent. If they differ by even a word or a hyphen, walk away.
What we recommend
The practical takeaway from everything above.
Treat any site using the IC Markets name at an address other than the group's own as unsafe.
- Do not send money to 9pfx.com or to anyone presenting it as IC Markets. The domain is dead, and any page appearing there in future is under someone else's control.
- If someone approaches you through LINE, WhatsApp or Telegram offering an IC Markets account, treat it as an approach by an impostor and check the address against the group's own site first.
- If you lost money to this operation, report it to your local police, and in Taiwan to the 165 anti-fraud line, with your transfer records and chat history.
- Ignore anyone offering to recover your funds for an upfront fee. Recovery offers that follow an investment loss are a common second scam.
- Before depositing with any broker, confirm the licence on the regulator's own register and confirm the web address matches the one the regulator records.
This is an independent assessment of risk, not a legal ruling. Scores and verdicts follow the Wikilix broker-safety methodology and can change as new evidence appears. Review scores are treated with caution when a broker’s reviews look manipulated. Last reviewed September 9, 2026. If any detail here is out of date or incorrect, or you represent this broker, please contact us.