Verdict up front: official.olymptrade-my.com is dressed as a broker’s official Malaysian address. Open it and it does not stay: the browser is forwarded to official.olymptrade-mylnd.com, a second lookalike with a longer suffix. Both are on the Securities Commission Malaysia Investor Alert List. Neither is the broker’s own domain.
What the chain does — checked 24 September 2026
- Entry point: official.olymptrade-my.com — the registrable domain was created 29 January 2021 through EuroDNS S.A., four years and eight months old — listed on the Securities Commission Malaysia Investor Alert List
- Forwards to: official.olymptrade-mylnd.com — a different registered domain, created 31 March 2021 at the same registrar, not a page on the first
- The word “official” is a subdomain, the part anyone who controls a domain can invent for free
- The real brand operates on its own single-word domain; -my and -mylnd are appended, not owned by the trademark
- Landing page offers: sign-up in 16 languages and “Start trading — it’s free”, with the pitch “you don’t have to have much experience in trading to start”
- Its own wording: “Easier than the trading floor. Harder than pure luck.”
Official is a word anyone can put in front of a dot
Read the address from the right. The registered domain is olymptrade-my.com. Everything to the left of it — including official. — was chosen by whoever registered it and costs nothing to add.
The same trick produces secure., login., portal. and verified. in front of a domain that has nothing to do with the brand it borrows. The only part that is owned is the registered domain, and here the registered domain is a suffix bolted onto a trademark.
The redirect is the part worth noticing
A brand’s own site does not bounce a visitor to a near-identical name with extra letters. -my to -mylnd is the behaviour of an affiliate chain or a funnel whose front domains get reported and replaced.
It also means the address in the browser is not the one a visitor typed or clicked. Anybody who checks a domain before entering details will check the wrong one, because the check happens before the redirect.
What the landing page sells
Sign-up in 16 languages, a free start, and the promise that experience is not required. The page describes choosing an asset, choosing an amount, waiting for the right moment and opening a trade — a four-step loop with a timer at the end of it.
Its own strapline is unusually candid: “Easier than the trading floor. Harder than pure luck.” Harder than pure luck is not a claim of skill. It sets the comparison against a coin toss and clears it by an unstated margin.
Why the regulator listed it
Soliciting Malaysian investors requires a licence from the Securities Commission Malaysia. The Investor Alert List is where the SC names operators doing so without one.
For a client in Kuala Lumpur, the practical consequence is what is missing: no local complaints route, no ombudsman, no compensation scheme, and a counterparty reached through a domain that forwards to another domain neither the brand nor the regulator stands behind.
- Read the address from the right — the registered domain is the last two parts before the slash.
- “official.” is free to invent. It proves nothing.
- Watch for a redirect: check the address bar again after the page loads.
- Type the brand’s domain yourself rather than following a link or an advert.
If you have already paid
Stop depositing and check which domain your account was actually opened on. Screenshot the platform, the trade history and every transfer, and report it to the Securities Commission Malaysia and to your card issuer or bank, since a card payment may be disputable. Ignore anyone who later offers to recover the funds for a fee paid in advance.
