--- title: "Is aguamais.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "aguamais.com" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is aguamais.com a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/aguamais.com assessed: 2026-08-20 --- # Is aguamais.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** aguamais.com shows high-risk / scam indicators. This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site. Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk Assessed 2026-08-20 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | What this site appears to be | Portuguese-language homepage for Instituto Água+, describing mission, projects, partners, and an app (AppPoços) for groundwater data; includes contact form, email and physical address. No financial solicitations or investment offers present in the provided HTML. | ## 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. | Check | Result | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Malware engines | 8 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted | | Domain age | 2.2 years old (Registered history) | Clear | | Web archive | Archived since 2011 (Public history exists) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR1) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the aguamais.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/aguamais.com/screenshots/first.png) _What aguamais.com served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-20. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: 1 to 3 years (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2011. - At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Security Alert Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. aguamais.com presents itself as the Portuguese-language website of Instituto Água+, a nonprofit and informational initiative focused on water conservation, research, public education, community engagement, and field projects in Brazil. Its visitor-facing model includes institutional information, partner references, project material, a blog, contact functionality, and AppPoços, described as an application for groundwater data; the supplied pages show no financial solicitation or investment offering. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The site’s visible content is consistent with a nonprofit water-conservation institute and does not itself show a login form, payment request, investment offer, phishing form, or apparent brand impersonation. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by a confirmed external blacklist status and multiple malicious detections, creating a material contradiction between the site’s stated purpose and its external threat reputation. No conflicting legal-entity names, direct impersonation indicators, or suspicious contact-email anomaly were observed in the supplied page content. Historical material does not identify suspicious repurposing or semantic drift, but that does not neutralize the current reputation signal. Evidence: - The homepage describes Instituto Água+, water sustainability projects, partners, and AppPoços; its single form is a contact form with no sensitive fields. - External reputation assessment recorded 8 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status across multiple evaluated sources. - The domain registration record shows: Registered 2024-06-08 (~2.2 years old), expiring 2027-06-08. - Historical coverage records 0 archive snapshots, with tracking from 2011-02-02 to 2025-07-10 across 15 years. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The “Quem Somos,” “Parceiros,” “Projetos,” and “Contato” areas provide an institutional mission, project descriptions, partner references, and contact details, but the supplied material does not independently verify the operating entity or establish any applicable charitable, corporate, or regulatory registration. Identity linkage is assessed as likely rather than verified, supported by a single social-presence signal. The absence of an apparent financial business model reduces the immediate regulatory exposure visible on the pages, but it does not resolve the external threat contradiction or establish that the organization represented is the responsible operator. Evidence: - The “Quem Somos” page identifies Instituto Água+ and describes its research, education, sustainability, and community objectives. - The “Parceiros” and “Contato” pages provide institutional and contact context, but no verified license or registration number is supplied in the analyzed content. - Hosting is identified as AS19318, Interserver, Inc., US. - The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR1, uses Domain Validation (DV), and is valid to 2026-11-16. ### What to Verify Next Before any sensitive interaction, an organization should independently confirm Instituto Água+ through an authoritative Brazilian registry or institutional source, including the entity’s legal name and responsible officers where applicable. Any charitable, research, data-collection, or application-related activity should be checked against the organization’s independently confirmed mandate. Contact channels should be validated through an offline or independently sourced institutional route, and any unexpected request for credentials, payments, downloads, or personal data should be treated as outside the site’s observed informational purpose. Evidence: - The “Quem Somos” page is the relevant source for confirming the organization’s stated mission and responsible identity. - The “Parceiros” page is the relevant source for independently checking named institutional relationships. - The “Contato” page is the relevant source for comparing published contact details against independently obtained records. - The homepage and AppPoços materials describe an informational groundwater-data application rather than a financial service. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is **critical trust risk**, with sensitive interaction risk driven by the convergence of confirmed external threat detections and blacklist evidence. The site’s nonprofit presentation and absence of visible financial solicitation do not provide sufficient grounds for credential, account, or financial trust, and the real-world operator remains not independently verified. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site resolves to a single likely origin address rather than a detected CDN edge, with no CDN identified in the infrastructure assessment. This provides limited infrastructure-based mitigation: the transport layer is functioning, but standard hosting and TLS do not compensate for the external reputation findings. ### Closing Assessment Restrict activity to passive viewing only and do not submit credentials, personal information, payment details, or downloads unless the organization and the specific interaction have first been validated through independent authoritative channels. _Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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, external reputation. ### 01 Governance Risk - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE`) - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN`) ### 02 Sensitive Interaction Risk - The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor. (Analysis engine `signal:direct_threat`) - 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 | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Status | LIKELY | | Identity score | 73/100 | | Identity verification confidence | 37% | - Trusted social count=1 _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 aguamais.com. - The request stayed on aguamais.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by com.br, across 3 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-06-08. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2011-02-02. (Clear) - It is hosted on IS-AS-1, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC | | Hosting | IS-AS-1 - Interserver, Inc, US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 173.225.106.194 | | Name servers | ANTARES.NS.REBIDIGITAL.COM.BR, BELLATRIX.NS.REBIDIGITAL.COM.BR, CAPELLA.NS.REBIDIGITAL.COM.BR | | SSL issuer | YR1 | | SSL expiry | 2026-11-16 | | Domain age | 2.20 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-06-08 | | Archive first seen | 2011-02-02 | | Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 8 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about aguamais.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. 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