In December 2023 the FCA warned about a website trading as TD Markets. The contact number it published begins with a country code that does not exist, and no web crawler has ever archived the site — not once.
What the FCA published
The notice is titled TDMarkets Limited t/a TD Markets UK Limited, TD Markets / tdmarkets.eu, first published 5 December 2023. We read it on 12 September 2026. It gives three contact details and nothing else:
- Website: https://tdmarkets.eu
- Email: contact@tdmarkets.eu
- Telephone: +99987456321023
No postal address. The FCA’s wording is its standard unauthorised-firm form: “This firm may be providing or promoting financial services or products without our permission”, and “This firm is not authorised by us and may be targeting people in the UK.”
One thing worth being precise about, because it is routinely got wrong: this is not a clone notice. The word “clone” appears nowhere on it, and the FCA does not name any genuine firm as being impersonated. It is a warning about an unauthorised operation that was using the TD Markets name on a .eu domain.
The telephone number cannot be dialled
Look again at +99987456321023.
International numbers are allocated by country code, and those codes are assigned centrally. There is no country code 999. It is not a small country, not a satellite service, not a premium line — it is unassigned. A number beginning +999 does not route anywhere on earth.
Which tells you what it was for. Not to be called — to occupy the space where a phone number goes, so the contact page looked complete.
That is the opposite of the pattern we found on a fake Infinox that copied a real FCA number, a real company number and a real London address. There, every detail was genuine and only the domain was false. Here, the details are not even trying.
A website the internet never saw
We queried the Internet Archive for every capture it holds of tdmarkets.eu, at any path, at any date. The answer came back empty.
We then ran the identical query against another domain to make sure the archive was actually responding, and it returned results normally. So the empty answer is real: in the whole life of that domain, no crawler ever saved a single page of it.
That absence is informative. Sites that exist for any length of time get archived incidentally; one that leaves no trace was either very short-lived or never linked from anywhere public.
Today the domain is gone entirely. We checked on 12 September 2026: tdmarkets.eu has no DNS record. There is nothing to connect to.
The name is not the business
A separate business trades at tdmarkets.com. It resolves normally, and the Internet Archive holds captures of it going back to 22 January 2007 — nearly two decades of continuous web history.
The FCA notice names only tdmarkets.eu. It does not mention tdmarkets.com at all. We are not suggesting otherwise, and readers should not either.
The general point matters more than this case: a brand name is not an identity. A regulator’s warning attaches to the domain it named, not to every business sharing the words — the same care that applies when eight separate notices name eight different fakes of one broker.
Verified evidence — checked 12 September 2026
- FCA warning “TDMarkets Limited t/a TD Markets UK Limited, TD Markets / tdmarkets.eu”, first published 5 December 2023.
- Contact details listed: website https://tdmarkets.eu, email contact@tdmarkets.eu, telephone +99987456321023. No address given.
- Country code 999 is unassigned — that number routes nowhere.
- The notice is a plain unauthorised-firm warning. It does not use the word “clone” and names no genuine firm.
- The Internet Archive holds zero captures of tdmarkets.eu — confirmed against a control query that returned results normally.
- tdmarkets.eu has no DNS record on 12 September 2026.
- By contrast tdmarkets.com resolves and is archived back to 22 January 2007. The FCA notice does not mention it.
- Dealing with an unauthorised firm means no Financial Ombudsman Service access and no FSCS protection.
Our verdict
Two checks would have settled this in under a minute, and neither requires any expertise.
Dial the number, or at least read it. A contact number that begins with an unassigned country code is not a typo; it is filler. If the phone number is fake, stop there.
Look the domain up in the Internet Archive. A firm claiming any kind of track record should have one. A total absence of history is not proof of fraud on its own, but combined with an impossible phone number it is not a close call.
If you sent money to tdmarkets.eu, tell your bank today and report it to Action Fraud. You will not have Ombudsman access or FSCS cover, so speed is the only thing working in your favour — chargeback windows and transfer tracing both depend on it.
Sources: FCA warning notice “TDMarkets Limited t/a TD Markets UK Limited, TD Markets / tdmarkets.eu”, fca.org.uk/news/warnings, first published 5 December 2023, read 12 September 2026; Internet Archive CDX index queries for tdmarkets.eu and tdmarkets.com, 12 September 2026; DNS resolution checks of tdmarkets.eu and tdmarkets.com, 12 September 2026.
