Verdict
activesmile.co.uk shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Active Smile is a dental practice website for a clinic in Evesham, Worcestershire offering routine and cosmetic dental services, bookings, contact details and information about treatments and sister clinics. Contact phone and email are provided; site contains booking CTA and social links. |
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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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 15% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 13 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2009Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2009.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Kaspersky, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Active Smile presents itself as a local dental practice serving Evesham, Worcestershire, with routine and cosmetic dentistry, treatment information, online booking, contact details, hygiene packages, and links to related clinics and social channels. Its apparent business model is the provision and sale of dental treatments, consultations, hygiene services, and associated products.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The website’s visible content is consistent with a conventional dental clinic: the homepage and treatment pages describe general dentistry, cosmetic dentistry, implants, orthodontics, whitening, digital dentistry, and facial-aesthetics services, while the booking page contains a booking request rather than a credential-collection form. No site-level brand impersonation, phishing form, or conflicting legal-entity naming was observed. However, this benign presentation is contradicted by confirmed blacklist status and multiple external malicious detections, including detections from major security providers. The contradiction is therefore reputational and technical rather than an identity-name conflict. Abuse reports associated with a Google shared-infrastructure IP provide additional context, but their attribution is to shared infrastructure rather than uniquely to the website.
- The homepage, treatments page, and booking page present a local healthcare-clinic model with one booking/contact form and no login or password form.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 11 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with a confirmed blacklist hit.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2007-05-27 and an age of 19.25 years.
- Historical records show 88 archive snapshots spanning 2009–2025, covering 17 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages provide treatment descriptions, contact functionality, privacy and cookie policies, and booking access, but the supplied content does not show a claimed license, registration number, or independently verified regulatory authorization. This is a regulatory-transparency gap requiring confirmation, not by itself evidence of a scam. The site’s apparent clinic identity is supported by coherent healthcare content, social links, a long-established registration record, and stable technical presentation, but the real-world operator is not independently verified. A valid domain-validated certificate and established hosting are positive technical conditions; they do not resolve the external threat contradiction.
- The about, contact, treatments, and book-online pages describe the clinic’s services and provide patient-contact and appointment functions.
- The supplied business and legal-page content contains no claimed license authority or license number.
- The domain is registered through Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a LCN, with expiry recorded as 2027-05-27.
- The site is served from AS396982, Google Cloud Platform, Google LLC, US; its TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-10-21.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, the clinic’s operating entity and relevant dental-practice authorization should be confirmed through the applicable official professional or corporate registry. The clinic’s telephone details and appointment destination should also be validated through an independently sourced channel, such as an established offline record or a registry entry, rather than relying solely on the website. Security teams should obtain a current endpoint and browser-reputation assessment before permitting credential, payment, or file-download activity associated with the domain.
- The contact and book-online pages are the relevant points for independently validating appointment and payment destinations.
- The about and legal-information pages are the relevant locations for confirming the operating entity and regulatory disclosures.
- The current technical and external-reputation findings require resolution before sensitive workflows are approved.
Summary Verdict
The website has a credible-looking dental-clinic presentation and several indicators of long-term operation, but the authoritative assessment remains critical because strong external threat detections and a confirmed blacklist directly outweigh the site’s otherwise ordinary healthcare content. The site’s legitimacy is therefore not established for sensitive interaction, despite the apparent local-business identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to Google Cloud Platform infrastructure in the United States under AS396982. No site CDN or origin candidates were identified in the infrastructure resolution, while the use of a major cloud provider offers only a limited hosting-stability benefit and is not evidence of operator legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Access should remain limited to passive viewing until the operator, regulatory standing, and external security detections have been independently resolved; credentials, payments, downloads, and appointment submissions should not be conducted through the site in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 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: 13 reports on hosting IP 35.227.194.51 (Google LLC, Content Delivery Network), 15% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 activesmile.co.uk.
- The request stayed on activesmile.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a LCN. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by net., across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2009-08-02. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Team Blue Internet Services UK Limited t/a Team Blue Internet Services Limited t/a LCN |
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| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 35.227.194.51 |
| Name servers | ns1.siteground.net., ns2.siteground.net. |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-21 |
| Domain age | 19.25 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2009-08-02 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 15% confidence, 13 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about activesmile.co.uk 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.