Verdict
africascoutfoundation.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-looking Africa Scout Foundation site describing mission, membership tiers, events, campaigns and donation options. Contact details and address in Nairobi are provided. |
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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 | None flagged itVirusTotal | Clear |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.1 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the Africa Scout Foundation’s nonprofit presence for scouting in Sub-Saharan Africa, presenting its mission, organizational background, membership options, events, campaigns, donation facilities, and scout shop to support scouting activities and youth development across Africa.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the available evidence: there are no phishing, impersonation, confirmed blacklist, or malicious-reputation indicators. The homepage presents a coherent charitable purpose, identifies the organization as the Africa Scout Foundation, describes its stated establishment in 1995, and provides Nairobi contact and address details. The site’s donation and newsletter forms do not present a login flow, wallet connection, or other observed mechanism associated with credential or cryptocurrency abuse. The operator’s real-world identity remains independently unverified, so the positive assessment is evidence-consistent rather than proof of identity.
- The homepage identifies the site as an Africa Scout Foundation nonprofit serving scouting in Sub-Saharan Africa and describes its mission and organizational history.
- The contact content provides Nairobi-based contact details and an address.
- The site’s behavioral inspection recorded no brand-impersonation, phishing, wallet-drainer, clipboard-hijacking, or password-external-form indicators.
- The domain was registered on 2018-08-03 and is approximately 8.05 years old; 68 archive snapshots span 2018–2026, covering 9 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents a specific legal-status statement: the Africa Scout Foundation is described as an international nonprofit organization registered under the Kenya Societies Act, with Certificate no. 19668 dated 11 February 2000. That statement is an on-site disclosure, not an independently verified regulatory finding. The available material does not establish a confirmed licensing or registration verification outcome, and the organization’s real-world operator connection remains unverified. This is a verification point for donation, membership, and shop transactions rather than an observed scam contradiction. A third-party broker-reputation dataset returned no match, which is neutral contextual support and not a licensing conclusion.
- The About or organizational content states registration under the Kenya Societies Act and cites Certificate no. 19668 dated 11 February 2000.
- The site presents donation, membership, event, campaign, and shop functions as part of its nonprofit operating model.
- Hosting is recorded on AS32475, SINGLEHOP-LLC – Internap Holding LLC, US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-10-09T08:19:27+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an institution should independently confirm the stated Kenyan registration with the relevant official registry or regulator and reconcile the registered entity name with the organization operating the website. Donation and shop transactions should be checked for clear payment-recipient details, receipts, refund terms, and payment-provider protections. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced organizational channel rather than relying solely on the website.
- The organizational page supplies a registration certificate number and date that can be checked against the relevant Kenyan records.
- The membership and shop areas create potential payment obligations requiring confirmation of pricing, renewal terms, receipts, and refunds.
- The donation flow and contact page provide the site-specific transaction and communication points for independent validation.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate charitable website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified, but the operator’s real-world identity has not been independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served from identified US hosting infrastructure operated by SINGLEHOP-LLC – Internap Holding LLC, with valid domain-validated TLS issued by YR1. This provides ordinary transport protection and an identifiable hosting posture, but it is a mitigating technical signal rather than proof of organizational legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; before submitting credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of the organization, transaction terms, and payment protections should be completed.
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.
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 africascoutfoundation.org.
- The request stayed on africascoutfoundation.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under eNom, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by clinetonline.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-11-07. Clear
- It is hosted on SINGLEHOP-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | eNom, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | SINGLEHOP-LLC - Internap Holding LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 67.208.36.216 |
| Name servers | ns1.clinetonline.com, ns2.clinetonline.com |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-09 |
| Domain age | 8.05 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-11-07 |
| 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 africascoutfoundation.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.