---
title: "Is atticconsultants.co.ke a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "atticconsultants.co.ke"
verdict: "Critical Risk"
title: "Is atticconsultants.co.ke a Scam? Trust Score 0/100"
trust_score: 0
classification_confidence: 55
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/atticconsultants.co.ke
assessed: 2026-08-22
---

# Is atticconsultants.co.ke a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** atticconsultants.co.ke 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 2026-08-22 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Website for Attic Property Consultants Ltd — a Kenya-based property valuation and estate agency. Provides services list, company profile, contact information and a property search interface. No signs of credential harvesting, investment schemes, or impersonation. |

## 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 | 4 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0% confidence (AbuseIPDB, 1 report; shared hosting inflates reports) | Clear |
| Domain age | 14 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017 (Public history exists) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR2) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the atticconsultants.co.ke homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/atticconsultants.co.ke/screenshots/first.png)

_What atticconsultants.co.ke served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-22. The page may look different now._

## Key findings


- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- 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.

This website presents itself as Attic Property Consultants Ltd, a Kenya-based property valuation and estate-agency business offering valuations, estate agency and management, project-development consultancy, property listings, and a property-search interface for prospective clients.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

The site’s visible content is a coherent corporate real-estate presentation and does not show a login form, credential-harvesting flow, investment scheme, or page-level brand impersonation. However, the domain is subject to a confirmed blacklist classification and multiple external malicious or suspicious detections, creating a material contradiction that outweighs the otherwise ordinary site presentation. A separate abuse report concerns shared hosting infrastructure rather than being directly attributed to this website, and the associated confidence score is zero; that signal is therefore discounted, but it does not remove the domain-level reputation concern.


Evidence:
- The homepage presents property consultancy services, property search, contact functionality, and no login or password-submission form.
- Domain reputation telemetry recorded 4 malicious and 2 suspicious detections across 11 evaluations, together with an external blacklist hit.
- Runtime observation recorded 0 external XHR requests, 0 wallet-connect executions, 0 hidden forms, and 0 externally submitted password forms.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The About/profile content identifies Attic Property Consultants Limited as a registered professional company and describes more than ten years of activity, with operations stated to have begun in March 2012. The available evidence does not independently verify the real-world operator behind those claims, and the site does not state a license authority or license number; this is a regulatory-transparency gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud. The domain’s long registration history and established historical presence are positive provenance indicators, but they do not neutralize the confirmed reputation contradiction. A valid domain-validated certificate and identifiable hosting arrangement provide technical continuity, not legal or regulatory validation.


Evidence:
- The homepage/profile content states that Attic Property Consultants Limited is a registered professional company providing valuations, estate agency and management, and development consultancy.
- Domain registration telemetry: registered 2012-04-25; approximately 14.33 years old; registrar Asterisk Technologies; expiry 2027-04-25.
- Archive telemetry records 45 snapshots spanning 2017–2026, with 10 years tracked; coverage is sparse but does not indicate a recent domain creation.
- Hosting and transport telemetry: served from AS51713, WHG-LON – WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB; TLS certificate issued by YR2 at DV validation level, valid to 2026-09-30.

### What to Verify Next

Before any sensitive interaction, an independent check should confirm that the company name, physical presence, telephone details, and responsible professionals correspond to authoritative Kenyan business and property-sector records. Any proposed valuation, agency, management, or development engagement should also be documented through independently confirmed contact channels and contractual payment-protection arrangements, with no reliance on the website alone.


Evidence:
- The About/profile pages provide the company name, service descriptions, and stated operating history for comparison against authoritative records.
- The Contact and services pages provide the details that should be validated through an independently sourced route before engagement.

### Summary Verdict

The overall posture is **critical trust risk**, with sensitive interactions unsuitable on the available evidence. The site’s conventional corporate presentation and technical continuity are materially outweighed by confirmed external reputation contradictions and the absence of independently verified operator identity.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The website resolves directly to infrastructure operated by WHG-LON – WHG Hosting Services Ltd, with no CDN or WAF edge identified and a likely origin address exposed through the observed hosting configuration. This provides limited infrastructure-layer mitigation and should not be treated as evidence of legitimacy.


Evidence:
- Infrastructure resolution identified 1 unique IP, 0 CDN edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- The resolved hosting country is GB, with the registry identified as RIPE NCC.

### Closing Assessment

Prospective users should restrict activity to passive review until the operator, applicable authorization, and payment arrangements have been independently validated; credentials, financial information, and consequential transactions should not be submitted in the interim.


_Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`)

### 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`)

### Signals weighed against the site

- AbuseIPDB: 1 report on hosting IP 77.95.113.16 (WHG Hosting Services Ltd, Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit), 0% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.

## Identity verification


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 atticconsultants.co.ke.

- The request stayed on atticconsultants.co.ke. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under Asterisk Technologies. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by asterisktech.africa, across 4 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-25. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-04-07. (Clear)
- It is hosted on WHG-LON, from a server in GB. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | Asterisk Technologies |
| Hosting | WHG-LON - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB |
| Country | GB |
| Server IP | 77.95.113.16 |
| Name servers | ns4.asterisktech.africa, ns3.asterisktech.africa, ns1.asterisktech.africa, ns2.asterisktech.africa |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Domain age | 14.33 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-25 |
| Archive first seen | 2017-04-07 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 1 report \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about atticconsultants.co.ke 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/atticconsultants.co.ke) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/atticconsultants.co.ke · assessed 2026-08-22.*