Verdict
afoialexiou.gr 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 | Greek-language local auto parts store site (Αφοί Αλεξίου) with product categories, contact phone and email, opening hours and basic storefront content. No login or payment flows visible in the provided HTML. |
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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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a Greek-language local auto-parts retailer operating under the name “Αφοί Αλεξίου.” It presents categories for automotive parts, industrial products, chemicals and lubricants, universal items, and specific products such as intercooler hoses, clutch kits, shock absorbers and air springs, with sales apparently conducted through telephone, email, delivery or in-person contact rather than an online checkout.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s ordinary storefront content does not itself show brand impersonation, phishing language, cryptocurrency activity, credential collection or a conflicting legal identity. However, the domain is subject to a confirmed blacklist finding and external reputation checks recorded multiple malicious and suspicious detections. This is a material contradiction to the benign local-retail presentation and is the principal reason sensitive interaction with the site should be treated as unsafe. Behavioral testing also detected one hidden form in one of two successful runs; although no password-external form or wallet activity was observed, the undisclosed form increases uncertainty around data handling.
- The homepage presents a Greek local-shop profile with product categories, a telephone contact, opening hours and a product-code search field.
- External reputation evaluation recorded 3 malicious and 2 suspicious detections from 5 evaluated results, together with a confirmed external blacklist status.
- Behavioral testing recorded 1 hidden form across 2 successful runs; no wallet connection, wallet-drainer activity or external password form was detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages identify the trading presentation as “Αφοί Αλεξίου” and provide contact details, but they do not establish an independently verified legal operator. No licensing authority or license number is claimed in the supplied content, so the site provides insufficient regulatory disclosure for a regulated financial or high-value commercial engagement. This is a verification gap rather than a standalone finding of fraud; the decisive concern remains the external threat reputation described above. The site’s transport security is valid but limited to domain validation and should not be interpreted as proof of business legitimacy.
- The homepage footer identifies “© 2022 Αφοί Αλεξίου. All Rights Reserved.” but supplies no stated legal entity, registration number or licensing authority.
- Registration continuity records the domain as approximately 8.69 years old.
- Archive records show 35 snapshots, with coverage from 2021-09-21 through 2024-06-17.
- The site is protected by a DV TLS certificate issued by YR2, valid until 2026-09-17.
What to Verify Next
Before any transaction or disclosure of personal information, an independent party should confirm that the telephone number and physical business details correspond to a legitimate operating retailer. Any applicable Greek business registration, tax identity and sector-specific obligations should be checked through authoritative registries rather than relying on the website’s own claims. Payment instructions, delivery terms, refunds and invoice details should be validated through an independently obtained contact route, and the hidden form should be clarified before any information is submitted.
- The contact and opening-hours content is published on the homepage, while no checkout or payment flow is visible in the supplied HTML.
- The site contains one search form and behavioral testing separately detected a hidden form.
- The available page content does not include a stated license number, licensing authority or detailed commercial terms.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a plausible local-retail storefront, but the confirmed blacklist status and corroborating malicious detections create a critical sensitive-interaction risk. The apparent business identity remains unverified, and the benign appearance of the pages does not offset the external threat indicators.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin server rather than a detected CDN edge, and the confirmed hosting infrastructure is AS28753 operated by Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH in Germany. The transport layer uses a DV certificate issued by YR2 and is currently valid; these are basic technical protections, not evidence that the operator or business is legitimate.
- The site is served from AS28753, Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH, Germany.
- The resolved address is 212.95.36.177, with 1 unique IP and 1 likely origin IP identified.
- No CDN was detected in the supplied infrastructure assessment.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate disposition is passive viewing only; credentials, personal information and financial details should not be submitted, and transactions should remain suspended until independent business and contact verification resolves the reputation concern.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
1 finding contributed to this verdict, raised by analysis engine, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - The page contained a form a visitor cannot see.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_HIDDEN_FORMS - 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
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 afoialexiou.gr.
- The request stayed on afoialexiou.gr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-09-21. Clear
- It is hosted on LEASEWEB-DE-FRA-10, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | LEASEWEB-DE-FRA-10 - Leaseweb Deutschland GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 212.95.36.177 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-17 |
| Domain age | 8.69 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2021-09-21 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about afoialexiou.gr 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.