---
title: "Is aceroandes.com Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "aceroandes.com"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is aceroandes.com Legit? Trust Score 100/100"
trust_score: 100
classification_confidence: 50
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/aceroandes.com
assessed: 2026-08-20
---

# Is aceroandes.com legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 100/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 100/100.** aceroandes.com appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-20 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 50%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Corporate website for Acero Andes / Andean Steel Industry (IAA). Describes company history since 1974, product lines (tanks, pressure vessels, pipelines), services (engineering, manufacturing, revamping), business sectors (Oil & Gas, Energy, Industrial, Infrastructure and Mining), HSE program, project history, and contact details in Quito, Ecuador. |

## 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 | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 22 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2007 (Public history exists) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YE1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the aceroandes.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/aceroandes.com/screenshots/first.png)

_What aceroandes.com served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-20. The page may look different now._

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2007.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.

## Full analysis


### Overview

This is the corporate website of Acero Andes / Andean Steel Industry (IAA), presenting an established industrial manufacturing and engineering business focused on steel fabrication, tanks, pressure vessels, pipelines, revamping, and commissioning for Oil & Gas, Energy, Industrial, Infrastructure, and Mining clients in Ecuador.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent B2B industrial profile, with company history, project activity, HSE information, service descriptions, and business contact details that are consistent with a corporate manufacturer rather than a credential-harvesting, investment, or impersonation operation. Available external checks record no malicious, phishing, or blacklist finding, although reputation coverage is partial. The apparent legitimacy is therefore strong and evidence-consistent, while the real-world operator remains independently unverified.


Evidence:
- Homepage and company pages: describe Acero Andes / Andean Steel Industry, its industrial history, project work, services, and operating sectors without identified fraud indicators.
- Contact page: provides business contact information associated with Quito, Ecuador.
- Technical and behavioral inspection: recorded no login form, hidden form, sensitive external form, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, cloaking, or suspicious inline script.
- Domain registration: Registered 2004 (~22.35 years old) through Network Solutions, LLC.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The website communicates a corporate industrial-service identity but does not state a licensing authority or registration number. For this type of B2B manufacturing and engineering presentation, that omission is a transparency and verification point rather than evidence of deception. The site's operator identity is not independently established by the supplied evidence, so its company claims should remain treated as apparent rather than proven. No broker-dataset match or adverse third-party reputational signal was identified.


Evidence:
- Historical provenance: 94 archive snapshots spanning 2007–2026 (20 years tracked).
- Site transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YE1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-11-15.
- About and service pages: identify the business as an industrial steel manufacturer and engineering contractor serving Oil & Gas, Energy, Industrial, Infrastructure, and Mining sectors.
- Regulatory presentation: no license authority or license number is stated in the supplied site analysis.

### What to Verify Next

Before a credential or payment interaction, an institution should independently match the company's stated legal identity and Ecuadorian operating details against the relevant corporate or commercial registry. Commercial counterparties should also validate the official contact route through an independently sourced channel and obtain written contracting, invoicing, delivery, return, and payment-protection terms.


Evidence:
- The site's company and contact pages provide the identity and business-contact claims that require independent registry and channel matching.
- The site's commercial presentation is oriented to contracted industrial services, making counterparty documentation and payment terms the relevant verification artifacts.

### Summary Verdict

Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate corporate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-inconsistency signal was identified, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, with the observed edge address 46.224.56.146 served from AS24940 (HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE); the origin server was not observable. This protective architecture mitigates direct exposure of the origin but is not, by itself, proof of legitimacy.


### Closing Assessment

Normal browsing is proportionate to the assessed posture, while credential or payment activity should follow the ordinary independent merchant-identity, contractual, and payment-protection checks appropriate for a new business counterparty.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report._

## What the analysis found


No rule findings contributed to this verdict.

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 25% |

- 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 aceroandes.com.

- The request stayed on aceroandes.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under Network Solutions, LLC. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by digitalocean.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2029-04-21. (Clear)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2007-05-28. (Clear)
- It is hosted on HETZNER-AS, from a server in DE. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | Network Solutions, LLC |
| Hosting | HETZNER-AS - Hetzner Online GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 46.224.56.146 |
| Name servers | NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM, NS2.DIGITALOCEAN.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-15 |
| Domain age | 22.35 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2029-04-21 |
| Archive first seen | 2007-05-28 |
| 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 aceroandes.com 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/aceroandes.com) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/aceroandes.com · assessed 2026-08-20.*