--- title: "Is 1ca.co.za a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "1ca.co.za" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is 1ca.co.za a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 70 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/1ca.co.za assessed: 2026-08-18 --- # Is 1ca.co.za a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** 1ca.co.za shows high-risk / scam indicators. This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site. Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk Assessed 2026-08-18 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 70%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | What this site appears to be | The provided HTML contains no head or body content beyond empty tags. No links, forms, metadata, or visible text were found. | ## Evidence status and limitations Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN - The real-world operator identity was not independently verified. - Module-level completeness metadata is unavailable for this legacy report. ## At a glance The checks that decide most of this verdict. | Check | Result | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Malware engines | 15 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 1% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear | | Domain age | 9.2 years old (Registered history) | Clear | | Web archive | Archived since 2013 (86 snapshots) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR2) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the 1ca.co.za homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/1ca.co.za/screenshots/first.png) _What 1ca.co.za served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-18. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2013. - At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Security Alert Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. The website at 1ca.co.za currently presents as an empty web endpoint with no visible text, navigation, forms, metadata, or stated commercial purpose; its apparent business model therefore cannot be determined from the supplied page. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The site presents a **critical interaction risk**. External reputation analysis recorded a confirmed blacklist and multiple malicious detections, including detections by Fortinet and Sophos; this is materially stronger than a merely unusual or low-reputation signal. The single abuse report concerns a shared hosting-provider IP and should not, by itself, be treated as proof that the site operator caused the reported activity, but it adds contextual concern. No distinct legal-entity conflict, confirmed phishing page, or page-level impersonation was observed in the supplied content; nevertheless, the blacklist and malicious detections are sufficient to establish a serious contradiction to safe sensitive use. The empty homepage also prevents meaningful validation of the site's purpose or identity. Evidence: - Homepage: empty HTML content with no visible text, links, forms, metadata, or stated business purpose. - External reputation assessment: blacklist confirmed; 15 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection among 21 effective evaluations. - Hosting artifact: one abuse report associated with IP 102.130.123.199, attributed to shared infrastructure operated by HA-VPS-NET rather than specifically to the site operator. - Domain history: 86 archive snapshots spanning 2013–2026, covering 14 years. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The captured site material contains no disclosed license, registration number, or operational explanation, so any regulated-service status cannot be established from the website itself. The registration record identifies HOSTAFRICA as registrar and 1 Classie Africa Pty Ltd as the registrant organization, but the available evidence does not independently verify that entity as the operator of the website. A separate broker-reputation dataset recorded no match; this is contextual only and does not constitute a licensing or regulatory determination. Evidence: - Registration record: created 2017-06-19 and expiring 2027-06-19; recorded age 9.17 years. - Registration record: registrar HOSTAFRICA; organization 1 Classie Africa Pty Ltd. - Hosting telemetry: served from AS328364, Host Africa (Pty) Ltd, South Africa. - Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR2 with DV validation, valid to 2026-09-25. ### What to Verify Next Before any sensitive interaction, an independent party should confirm the responsible legal entity through an authoritative corporate registry and confirm any claimed authorization with the relevant financial or industry regulator. Official contact channels should be validated through an independently sourced route rather than relying solely on information presented by the site. Security personnel should also determine whether the endpoint remains listed in current protective controls before permitting access from enterprise networks. Until those checks are complete, use should be limited to non-interactive observation and no credentials, payments, or financial information should be submitted. Evidence: - Operator verification: the available evidence does not independently connect the website to a verified real-world operator. - Regulatory verification: no licensing or authorization information is available in the captured site content. - Security clearance: external threat detections and blacklist status require resolution before sensitive access is approved. ### Summary Verdict The website has a critical trust posture and is not suitable for login, credential submission, payments, or other sensitive interaction. Its apparent operator identity and business purpose are not established, while the available external threat evidence directly conflicts with treating the endpoint as trustworthy. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site resolves directly to a likely origin host rather than through a detected CDN or WAF, with one observed IP address. Host Africa provides ordinary hosting infrastructure, but that infrastructure is only a limited mitigating factor and does not offset the adverse reputation evidence. ### Closing Assessment Enterprise or financial-sector users should block sensitive interaction with the site pending independent operator, regulatory, and security clearance; any investigation should remain controlled, non-authenticated, and non-financial. _Written analysis generated 2026-08-18 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._ ## What the analysis found 1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, external reputation. ### 01 Sensitive Interaction Risk - The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor. (Analysis engine `signal:direct_threat`) - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it. (External reputation `rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL`) ### Signals weighed against the site - AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 102.130.123.199 (HA-VPS-NET, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 1% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website. ## Identity verification | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Status | UNVERIFIED | | Identity score | 30/100 | | Identity verification confidence | 50% | - No on-site identity signals detected _Identity verification measures whether the site can be independently connected to a real-world brand or person. It is separate from the classification confidence._ ## What TrustSniffer observed First-party facts recorded during the assessment of 1ca.co.za. - The request stayed on 1ca.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under HOSTAFRICA. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by host-ww.net, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-06-19. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-09-01. (Clear) - It is hosted on Host Africa (Pty) Ltd, from a server in ZA. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | HOSTAFRICA | | Hosting | Host Africa (Pty) Ltd - Host Africa (Pty) Ltd, ZA | | Country | ZA | | Server IP | 102.130.123.199 | | Name servers | ns1.host-ww.net, ns2.host-ww.net | | SSL issuer | YR2 | | SSL expiry | 2026-09-25 | | Domain age | 9.17 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-06-19 | | Archive first seen | 2013-09-01 | | Archive snapshots | 86 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 15 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 1% confidence, 1 report \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about 1ca.co.za at assessment time. It is a starting point for your own judgement, not a guarantee: a high score means the signals were consistent with a legitimately operated site, a low or critical score means several risk patterns were present. TrustSniffer assesses a website from the evidence it can collect at a point in time: domain registration and age, hosting and certificate, the content the site served, and third-party reputation feeds. A score is a summary of that evidence, not a guarantee and not a legal finding. There is no human rating and no user review in it. 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