Verdict
ace4ce.org 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 | Association for Community & Environment (ACE) website describing mission, pillars, projects (GeoConservation, Biodiversity, Cultural Heritage, Awareness, Waste Management, Rural Development), contact emails, phone numbers and physical addresses in Lebanon. |
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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 | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2017.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
ACE4CE.org is an informational website for the Association for Community & Environment (ACE), a Lebanon-based nonprofit presenting environmental, community, cultural-heritage, awareness, waste-management, and rural-development projects, with contact information for prospective partners, supporters, and members of the public.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the available evidence: there were no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or malicious-content indicators, and the site’s stated nonprofit purpose is consistent with its project-focused content. Behavioral testing did identify suspicious inline scripting, but this was a limited technical anomaly; testing found no hidden forms, credential collection, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, cloaking, or external network activity to support a fraud interpretation. The real-world operator identity remains independently unverified, so the site should be described as apparently legitimate rather than identity-proven.
- The homepage identifies ACE as a non-political, nonprofit association established in 2014 and describes environmental and community projects.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2015-12-02 and an age of 10.73 years.
- Behavioral testing recorded 2 suspicious inline scripts, with 0 external XHR requests, 0 hidden forms, and 0 wallet-provider or wallet-drainer runs.
- Evaluated external reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no confirmed blacklist or phishing indicators.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides a substantive organizational description and identifies its activities, projects, contact channels, telephone numbers, and physical addresses in Lebanon. It does not present a licensing authority or registration number in the supplied page content; for a nonprofit association, this is a disclosure gap requiring ordinary confirmation rather than evidence of a scam. No separate third-party broker association was identified. The available infrastructure and transport signals are consistent with an established website, although a domain-validated certificate confirms encrypted transport only and does not independently establish the operator’s legal identity.
- The homepage and project pages describe GeoConservation, Biodiversity Conservation, Cultural Heritage, Awareness, Waste Management, and Rural Development activities.
- The site's registration record lists GoDaddy.com, LLC as registrar.
- The site is served from AS398101 (GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US).
- TLS uses issuer YR2 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-10-19T20:47:43+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential submission, donation, partnership, or payment interaction, an independent registry or offline contact route should be used to confirm the association’s legal standing, authorized representatives, and the intended recipient of funds. Any payment flow should be checked for clear payment-protection, refund, and transaction-record arrangements. Official contact channels should also be corroborated through an independently obtained source rather than relying solely on website content.
- Independent operator identity verification is currently incomplete despite the site’s coherent organizational presentation.
- The site’s nonprofit model indicates that grants, partnerships, donations, or project funding may be relevant transaction contexts.
- The supplied content does not identify a licensing or registration authority, making registry confirmation a reasonable next step.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports a high-trust, low-risk posture and is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate nonprofit website. The site’s real-world operator identity is not independently verified, so legitimacy should not be treated as conclusively proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The technical record identifies a server endpoint, but it does not establish a CDN, WAF, or separate origin-protection layer. No adverse conclusion follows from that limitation; any protective infrastructure should be regarded as a mitigating control rather than proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the assessment, while independent identity, authorization, and payment-protection checks should precede credential or financial interactions.
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 ace4ce.org.
- The request stayed on ace4ce.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-05-11. Clear
- It is hosted on GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 50.62.31.232 |
| Name servers | ns17.domaincontrol.com, ns18.domaincontrol.com |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-19 |
| Domain age | 10.73 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-05-11 |
| 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 ace4ce.org 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.