FTC GROUP PTY LTD

Verdict

Treat this as a likely impersonation. The website address is a near-copy of the company's name, not the name itself. Contact the real company only through details from its official register entry.

Findings

• ⚠ Domain much newer than the company: ASIC shows FTC GROUP PTY LTD registered 04/02/2026, but this website's domain was only registered 2026-09-21 (~8 months later). An established company normally already has a website; a fresh domain using its name may be an impersonator.
• ⚠ Look-alike domain: "ftcgroups.org" is one character away from the company name "ftcgroup" but does not match it. Near-miss addresses (an extra or missing letter) are a classic impersonation technique used to borrow a real company's identity.
• Address "Windaroo QLD 4207" could not be resolved by the OpenStreetMap geocoder, so it could not be verified either way. Geocoder coverage is incomplete — this is an unverified check, not evidence of a fake address. Confirm the address independently.
• Chainabuse: no community scam reports against ftcgroups.org.
• WHOIS/RDAP: ftcgroups.org registered 2026-09-21 (~0 months old), registrar: Squarespace Domains II LLC.
• ABN Lookup (Australia) — FOUND (strong company/domain-name alignment): FTC GROUP PTY LTD · 0000000001 · 70694989994
• ASIC (Australia) — FOUND (verified by registration number): FTC GROUP PTY LTD · Registered · 694989994 · registered 04/02/2026
• GLEIF (Global) — NOT FOUND in register.
• OpenSanctions: no matching entities in global sanctions/PEP/warning lists.
• Crawler policy: site discourages indexing (robots.txt disallows all crawlers; Homepage <meta robots> contains noindex). Neutral on its own; aggravating only with other risk signals.
• Trustpilot — lookup failed (scrape failed).
• ProductReview.com.au — lookup failed (scrape failed).
• Sitejabber — no profile found for this domain.
• ScamAdviser — FOUND (trust 69/100 · Medium Risk): https://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/ftcgroups.org
• IPQualityScore — lookup failed (Invalid or unauthorized key. Please check the API key and try again. (EID: 61771)).
• Corporate identity: Supplied ABN Lookup and ASIC results match the company name and supplied ACN. ASIC reports the company as Registered. These matches confirm corporate existence, not ownership of the website or regulatory authorisation for particular services.
• Domain registration: Authoritative WHOIS/RDAP reports registration on 2026-09-21, approximately 0 months old, through Squarespace Domains II LLC. Registrant details were not supplied. The young-domain rule requiring no positive verification does not apply because official registry matches exist.
• Regulatory checks: The supplied ASIC Investor Alert List scrape returned no match, and OpenSanctions returned no matching entities. Separate ASIC Banned and Disqualified persons register, ACCC Scamwatch, gazette and broader enforcement searches were not completed here; their outcomes remain unknown.
• Technical checks: Chainabuse returned no community scam reports against ftcgroups.org. A scan of one page found no outbound links to known scam domains. These limited results do not establish overall website safety.
• Google Safe Browsing failed with error 400. Malware and phishing status is therefore unverified, not clean.
• Unverified Credential — Phone: 02 7266 3208 could not be validated because the lookup failed. No verified association with this company or historical fraud cases was established.
• Unverified Credential — Address: Windaroo QLD 4207 identifies a locality and postcode, not a specific premises. The supplied geocode check did not confirm company co-location. Without a street address, residential or commercial use, other occupants, virtual-office services and address-specific scam history cannot be established.
• Crawler policy: The site blocks crawlers through robots.txt and includes a homepage noindex directive. This is neutral here because there is a registry match and no supplied regulator warning.
• Reviews: No matching reviews found. Trustpilot and ProductReview lookups failed, so review availability on those services remains unknown; Sitejabber returned no profile. ScamAdviser's supplied Medium Risk label and 69/100 trust score are not customer ratings and are not used as positive legitimacy evidence or as an explicit high-risk scam finding.
• Search-result exclusions: TradieRoles pages identify the target as their provider and are not independent corroboration. The similarly named financial-services directory entry lacks a matching company identifier and does not establish financial-services authorisation. Generic US FTC scam advice and BBB pages do not implicate this entity.
• Assessment scope: No additional live searches were available in this response. The green score reflects the official identity matches and absence of specific qualifying negative evidence in the supplied material, not a guarantee of legitimacy.