Verdict
acbi.be appears legitimate.
Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.
| What this site appears to be | ACBI BVBA — Belgian maritime specialist offering inland shipping freight brokering, ship brokerage services and a catalog of ship-related products with contact details, VAT number and showroom address. |
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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.
| Malware engines | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2015Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2015.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website is the corporate and catalog site of ACBI BVBA, presenting inland-shipping freight brokerage, ship brokerage, and sales of ship-related products, with the apparent business model of earning service fees, transaction commissions, and product-sales revenue.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent maritime-services identity across its homepage, “About Us,” catalog, and contact pages; it does not display a login or sensitive-data form, request wallet activity, redirect submissions to an untrusted destination, or exhibit detected impersonation, phishing, cloaking, or malicious behavioral patterns. Available external checks found no malicious or suspicious detections, and no matching third-party broker warning was identified. The evidence supports an established, apparently legitimate website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- Homepage: identifies ACBI BVBA and describes inland-shipping freight brokerage, ship brokerage, and trade in ship-related products.
- Contact page: presents business contact details, a VAT reference, and a showroom address.
- Browser behavior: two successful runs recorded no external XHR or POST activity, no hidden forms, no wallet-provider activity, and no cloaking.
- Domain registration: Registered 2012-02-27 (~14.49 years old).
Regulatory Verification Notes
The legal and commercial presentation is consistent with a small Belgian maritime business, but the available material does not independently establish the operator’s identity or confirm any sector-specific authorization. The site displays a VAT reference and physical showroom information, while no license claim or license number is supplied; this is a transparency item for ordinary business verification, not evidence of deception. The available third-party reputation context contains no broker match, and the site’s transport encryption is a valid domain-validated certificate.
- About and Contact pages: identify “ACBI BVBA” and provide business credentials and location information; no license number is shown in the supplied page content.
- Hosting infrastructure: Served from AS51468 (ONECOM - One.com A/S, DK).
- TLS certificate: Issued by YE2, validation level DV, valid to 2026-09-20T16:00:25+00:00.
- Archive record: 0 snapshots, with the available archive interval recorded from 2015-10-19T23:43:43Z to 2025-02-24T05:25:23Z and 11 years tracked; this represents sparse archival coverage rather than evidence of a recent domain.
What to Verify Next
Before a credential or payment interaction, an institution or prospective customer should independently confirm the company’s legal registration and VAT details through the relevant Belgian business registry, confirm that any required maritime brokerage authorization applies and is current, and validate the showroom and contact channels through an independently sourced business record. For catalog purchases, the return, delivery, invoicing, and payment-protection terms should be reviewed before funds are sent.
- Contact page: provides the business details that can be cross-checked against an independent registry.
- About Us page: describes the company’s maritime experience and service scope, providing claims for commercial due diligence.
- Catalog page: provides the relevant product and transaction context for reviewing delivery, returns, and payment terms.
Summary Verdict
Overall posture is high trust and low risk, consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. The assessment supports normal browsing and ordinary business engagement, while the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified; legitimacy is therefore evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by an observed CDN/WAF layer, with one edge address associated with AS16509 and additional potential origin candidates identified by infrastructure analysis. This protective architecture is a mitigating control against routine exposure and abuse, but it is not, by itself, proof of business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary independent checks of merchant identity, applicable authorization, return terms, and payment protections should precede credential submission or payment activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
No rule findings contributed to this verdict.
Identity verification
| 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 acbi.be.
- The request stayed on acbi.be. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by one.com. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2015-10-19. Clear
- It is hosted on ONECOM, from a server in DK. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | ONECOM - One.com A/S, DK |
| Country | DK |
| Server IP | 2a02:2350:5:10b:8003:b613:b85e:8e1b |
| Name servers | ns01.one.com ns02.one.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 14.49 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2015-10-19 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about acbi.be 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. A site can change after it is assessed.