Verdict
advancedmetering.com.au is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Local Australian metering services provider offering meter sales, installation, panel design and emergency callouts. Contact details and street address are present; basic contact form on the page. |
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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 | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 13 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Advanced Metering Solutions is an Australian business-services website presenting electrical metering equipment and field services, including meter installation, panel and wiring design, repairs, and emergency callouts, with an apparent business model based on equipment sales and service engagements.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a local metering-services provider and does not request passwords, financial credentials, cryptocurrency access, or other sensitive information. However, the domain has a material external reputation contradiction: four evaluated detections classified it as malicious, and it is recorded on external blacklists. No brand impersonation, identity-name conflict, or phishing form was identified in the supplied page analysis, but the confirmed blacklist status is sufficient to make sensitive interaction inappropriate until the reputation findings are independently resolved.
- The homepage describes meter sales, Class 0.2 and Class 1 energy meters, installations, panel design, repairs, and emergency callouts.
- The homepage contains one ordinary contact form and no login, password, payment, wallet-connection, or hidden sensitive form.
- Domain registration records show registration in 2013, with an age of approximately 12.98 years.
- Historical records show 3 archive snapshots spanning 2013–2019, with 7 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a business name, local service description, contact details, and a street address, but the supplied pages do not provide a license number or independently verified regulatory authorization. That is a transparency item for business validation rather than proof of misconduct. Registration records identify Advanced Metering Solutions Pty Ltd as the owner and Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd as registrar; these records support an administrative connection but do not independently verify that the website operator is the entity conducting the advertised work. A separate broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is neutral contextual information and not a licensing determination.
- The homepage identifies “Advanced Metering Solutions” and describes services for electrical metering projects.
- The contact content includes contact details, a street address, and a basic enquiry form.
- Hosted on AS45638, SYNERGYWHOLESALE-AP – SYNERGY WHOLESALE PTY LTD, Australia.
- TLS certificate issued by YE1 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-10-06.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive engagement, the prospective customer should independently confirm that Advanced Metering Solutions Pty Ltd is the entity responsible for the domain and that the relevant personnel hold any Australian electrical or metering authorizations required for the proposed work. The external malicious and blacklist findings should be checked with the organization’s security team or an independent reputation service, and contact details should be confirmed through an offline or independently sourced business channel. Any quotation, payment request, or request for credentials should be matched to a verified contract and a payment process offering appropriate dispute protection.
- The homepage states that the business supplies meters and performs installation and electrical design work.
- The site’s visible form is a contact form rather than a credential or payment form.
- The page analysis records no overt financial, cryptocurrency, or credential-harvesting request.
- The site’s published business address and contact details provide concrete artifacts for independent cross-checking.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site’s ordinary service presentation and stable technical operation do not outweigh the confirmed external reputation contradictions, while the real-world operator remains unverified. Account access, credential submission, financial transactions, and reliance on the site for high-consequence decisions are not supported by the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one likely origin address rather than a CDN edge and is hosted by Synergy Wholesale Pty Ltd on AS45638 in Australia. Its DV TLS certificate provides transport encryption, but neither direct hosting nor standard certificate coverage establishes operator legitimacy or offsets the external reputation findings.
Closing Assessment
Treat the website as suitable only for limited, non-sensitive information gathering until the operator, required authorizations, and external reputation findings have been independently confirmed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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.
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
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 advancedmetering.com.au.
- The request stayed on advancedmetering.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by net.au, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-08-25. Clear
- It is hosted on SYNERGYWHOLESALE-AP, from a server in AU. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Synergy Wholesale Accreditations Pty Ltd |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SYNERGYWHOLESALE-AP - SYNERGY WHOLESALE PTY LTD, AU |
| Country | AU |
| Server IP | 110.232.143.225 |
| Name servers | ns1.nameserver.net.au, ns2.nameserver.net.au, ns3.nameserver.net.au |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-06 |
| Domain age | 12.98 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2013-08-25 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about advancedmetering.com.au 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.