Verdict
africplans.com 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 | AfricPlans site offering downloadable and customizable house plans with pricing listed and contact details (WhatsApp, phone, email). The page is a product listing/catalog rather than a login-only or investment 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 | 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 | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2014Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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 2014.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
AfricPlans is an e-commerce catalog for downloadable and customizable house plans, presenting residential designs, listed prices, customization services, and contact-based sales through its website.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting-identity indicators were observed. The homepage presents a conventional product catalog with categories such as duplexes, apartments, and bungalows, including named house plans and prices in U.S. dollars and CFA francs; this is consistent with an ordinary digital-product business rather than a credential-harvesting or investment operation. The captured site had no sensitive forms, no hidden forms, no wallet activity, no clipboard manipulation, and no cloaking indicators. The available domain history also supports continuity rather than suspicious repurposing.
- Homepage: Product catalog for predesigned and customizable house plans, with named plans, residential categories, and displayed purchase prices.
- Site interaction behavior: No login form, sensitive form, hidden form, wallet connection, wallet-drainer activity, or clipboard-write behavior detected.
- Domain registration: Registered 2014 (~11.8 years old) through Launchpad.com Inc.
- Web archive: 73 archive snapshots spanning 2014–2026 (13 years tracked); no suspicious repurposing or semantic drift detected.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to operate as a standard digital-product seller, not as a business model that inherently requires financial-services authorization. However, the available site material does not present a license, registration number, or independently verifiable legal-entity connection; this is a transparency item, not evidence of a scam. The operator identity therefore remains unverified even though the broader evidence is consistent with an established website. Evaluated external reputation checks found no malicious detections, no abuse reports, and no matching broker warning. The domain is long-established, registered through Launchpad.com Inc., and protected by a valid domain-validated TLS certificate, which are affirmative indicators of operational continuity and basic website integrity.
- Hosting infrastructure: Served from AS47583 (AS-HOSTINGER – Hostinger International Limited, CY).
- TLS certificate: Issued by YE1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-09-20T20:37:05+00:00.
- Registration record: Registrar listed as Launchpad.com Inc.; registration date 2014-11-03T17:30:07Z and expiration date 2026-11-03T17:30:07Z.
- External reputation checks: 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, 0 AbuseIPDB reports, and no blacklist or broker-dataset match in the supplied results.
What to Verify Next
Before payment or credential submission, an interested party should independently confirm the merchant’s legal identity through an appropriate corporate or commercial registry, review the site’s delivery, customization, refund, and dispute terms, and ensure that the proposed payment method provides buyer protection. Contact details should also be confirmed through an independent route before any material transaction.
- Homepage and catalog: Commercial terms are presented through listed products and prices rather than a regulated-services offering.
- Contact and service material: Sales and customization are described through direct contact channels, making independent confirmation of the counterparty particularly relevant.
- Account area: The site exposes a login option, so credential reuse should be avoided and account ownership should be confirmed before registration.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate, low-risk e-commerce website. No scam or impersonation contradictions were observed. The high-trust posture supports normal browsing and ordinary site use, while the absence of independent operator verification prevents the legitimacy assessment from being treated as proof of the real-world legal entity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted on AS47583, operated by Hostinger International Limited, with infrastructure resolving to four likely origin IP addresses and no detected CDN or edge-IP layer. This is a conventional hosting posture and provides no indication of malicious infrastructure; the hosting arrangement should be regarded as a mitigating operational signal, not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing is reasonable, but independent merchant-identity, return-policy, and payment-protection checks should be completed before credentials or payment details are submitted.
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 africplans.com.
- The request stayed on africplans.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Launchpad.com Inc.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2014-12-31. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Launchpad.com Inc. |
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| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:43:8f38:fe73:2396:ac86:44b4 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNS-PARKING.COM, NS2.DNS-PARKING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 11.80 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2014-12-31 |
| 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 africplans.com 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.