Verdict
apalache.fr 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 | Website for Apalache Assurances, an independent insurance broker and advisor focused on social protection for employees, company executives and individuals. Provides descriptions of services (prévention, santé, retraite, assurance de prêt), values, office addresses, contact email and a contact form. |
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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 | 5.9 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public 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 2021.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Apalache Assurances is a corporate website for an independent insurance brokerage and advisory firm focused on social protection for employees, company executives, and individuals, presenting insurance and benefits guidance through informational service pages, office details, and a contact channel.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No scam, phishing, blacklist, or brand-impersonation contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent insurance-brokerage purpose covering prevention, health, retirement, and loan insurance, without investment promises, cryptocurrency functionality, credential-harvesting forms, or other abuse-oriented mechanisms. The site’s behavioral execution was stable, with no external posting, hidden forms, wallet activity, or cloaking detected. This supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk presentation, although it does not independently prove the real-world operator’s identity.
- The homepage describes Apalache Assurances as an independent broker and adviser in social protection, with no investment or cryptocurrency claims.
- The contact-page form was identified as a simple contact form with mathematical CAPTCHA and no sensitive-field workflow; no login form was detected.
- The domain was registered on 2020-10-13 and is approximately 5.86 years old.
- Web-archive coverage records 188 snapshots spanning 2021–2026, with 6 years tracked and no suspicious repurposing identified.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages present a professional insurance-advisory identity and describe missions, values, services, and contact arrangements. However, the site content does not state a licensing authority or registration number, so regulatory authorization remains a verification matter rather than an established fact. The available external reputation checks found no reported malicious or suspicious result, and no broker-dataset match was identified; these are contextual signals, not legal or licensing determinations. The operator behind the “Apalache Assurances” presentation remains independently unverified.
- The site title and corporate pages identify “Apalache Assurances | Courtage et Conseil en Protection Sociale” and provide dedicated missions, values, and contact sections.
- No licensing authority or license number is presented in the supplied site content.
- Domain registration is recorded through SCALEWAY, with an expiration date of 2026-10-13.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organisation should independently confirm the broker’s legal identity and authorization with the relevant French insurance-intermediary registry, using the legal entity details obtained through an independent channel. Contract documentation should be reviewed for the insurer involved, intermediary status, fees or commissions, complaints handling, and data-processing terms. Any payment or transfer should use a protected method with an appropriate audit trail, and official contact channels should be confirmed independently before sensitive information is submitted.
- The site’s regulatory disclosure is unclear; an independent registry check is therefore the appropriate next verification step.
- The published business model involves insurance brokerage and advisory services, making confirmation of intermediary authorization and insurer relationships material to engagement.
- The site uses a contact workflow rather than a dedicated account or transaction portal, so contractual and payment arrangements should be established separately before commitment.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website. No contradictory scam or impersonation indicators were identified, but the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single likely origin address hosted in France by O2SWITCH – O2SWITCH SAS, without a detected CDN or WAF layer; this provides a direct hosting posture rather than an edge-protected deployment. Confirmed technical evidence also shows valid DV transport encryption issued by YR1, providing a basic integrity and confidentiality control for web traffic.
- Hosted on AS50474 (O2SWITCH – O2SWITCH SAS, FR), with one resolved IP and 1 likely origin IP; no CDN or WAF was detected.
- TLS certificate issued by YR1 with DV validation, valid to 2026-10-03T21:34:18+00:00.
- The site returned stable successful responses during two observed browser runs, with no detected cloaking or suspicious script activity.
Closing Assessment
Engagement is proportionate to the site’s high-trust, low-risk posture, subject to ordinary independent confirmation of the contracting party, authorization, contractual terms, and payment protections before sensitive or financially consequential interaction.
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 apalache.fr.
- The request stayed on apalache.fr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under SCALEWAY. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by o2switch.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-13. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-03-02. Clear
- It is hosted on O2SWITCH, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | SCALEWAY |
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| Hosting | O2SWITCH - O2SWITCH SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 109.234.161.39 |
| Name servers | ns1.o2switch.net, ns2.o2switch.net |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-03 |
| Domain age | 5.86 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-13 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-03-02 |
| 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 apalache.fr 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.