Verdict
afraca.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 | Official site for the African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA). Provides news, events, programmes, knowledge resources and contact information for members and partners. Focused on rural finance policy, digital finance, climate-smart finance and capacity building. |
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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 | 1 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 97 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 25 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2002244 snapshots | 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 2002.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
afraca.org is an institutional website for the African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA), presenting organisational information, rural-finance programmes, policy and knowledge resources, news, events, and partnership opportunities. Its apparent purpose is to support a membership-based, non-profit association serving agricultural and rural finance stakeholders through research, convening, and capacity building.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting legal-identity indicators were observed. The site’s content is consistent with an informational organisational service: it contains substantial material on rural finance, agricultural credit, digital finance, climate-smart finance, programmes, events, and resources, with no investment solicitation, cryptocurrency functionality, sensitive login workflow, or deceptive commercial mechanism identified. One isolated external malicious classification is unconfirmed and does not establish site-level maliciousness; the overall evidence does not support a scam or impersonation conclusion.
- The homepage identifies AFRACA and presents organisational sections covering its story, governance, initiatives, knowledge hub, events, and collaboration.
- The homepage and associated content contain no reported red-flag indicators, phishing indicators, or brand-impersonation findings.
- The domain was registered on 2001-06-26 and is approximately 25.17 years old.
- Web archives contain 244 snapshots spanning 2002–2026, with 25 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About, governance, and secretariat content supports the appearance of an established institutional association, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified by the available evidence. The site presents no claimed financial-services licence or licence number; given the stated informational and membership-driven model, this is best treated as a regulatory-disclosure point requiring confirmation rather than as evidence of deception. No matching broker warning was identified in the available third-party context. The site’s technical presentation is consistent with a professionally maintained web presence, although transport encryption is domain-validated rather than organisation-validated.
- The domain is registered through OwnRegistrar, Inc., with an expiration date of 2027-06-26.
- The site is served from AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- The TLS certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-11-10.
- The site’s page type is recorded as informational/organisational, with no sensitive form detected.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential or payment interaction connected with the organisation, an institution should independently confirm the association’s legal operating entity and any applicable registration or authorisation through the relevant official registry. Contact details should be validated through an independent route, and any proposed membership fee, event payment, donation, or partnership transaction should be checked against documented payment-protection, refund, and contractual terms. The site’s institutional claims should not be treated as independent proof of operator identity.
- The contact page publishes organisational contact information suitable for independent cross-checking.
- The observed site interaction did not expose a login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet workflow, or external password-submission destination.
- Browser observation recorded no external XHR or POST activity during the assessed interactions.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate institutional website. The principal qualification is that the real-world operator has not been independently verified, so legitimacy should be understood as evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site uses mainstream hosting and shared content-delivery infrastructure, which is a mitigating operational signal but not proof of organisational legitimacy. Abuse reports associated with the shared delivery-provider IP are explicitly attributed to shared infrastructure, have zero confidence, and are whitelisted; they therefore do not constitute a site-specific finding.
- The shared delivery-provider address 216.198.79.1 is attributed to Vercel, Inc.; 97 reports are recorded against that shared IP with confidence score 0 and whitelisted status.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the current assessment; independent identity, transaction, and payment-protection checks should be completed before credentials or funds are provided.
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.
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 97 reports on hosting IP 216.198.79.1 (Vercel, Inc, Content Delivery Network), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
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 afraca.org.
- The request stayed on afraca.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under OwnRegistrar, Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-26. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2002-03-29. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | OwnRegistrar, Inc. |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 216.198.79.1 |
| Name servers | marjory.ns.cloudflare.com, razvan.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-10 |
| Domain age | 25.17 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2002-03-29 |
| Archive snapshots | 244 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 1 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 97 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about afraca.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.