Verdict
azaniabank.co.tz 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 | Azania Bank homepage advertising personal and business banking, accounts, loans, payments, foreign exchange, trade finance, bancassurance, and support services, with links to corporate and regulatory information. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 17 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001353 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2001.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This is the Azania Bank website, presenting personal and business banking through savings and deposit accounts, loans, mortgages, payments, foreign exchange, trade finance, bancassurance, branch access, and digital banking channels. Its apparent purpose is to operate as a conventional commercial bank serving retail, business, and institutional customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a coherent banking identity, conventional financial services, corporate information, branch access, customer support, and regulatory-reporting links, with no detected phishing, impersonation, credential-harvesting, or deceptive-investment indicators. External reputation checks were clean, and the site's long-running historical continuity supports an established identity.
- WHOIS records show registration on 2009-07-27, with an age of 17.02 years.
- The web archive contains 353 snapshots spanning 2001–2026, covering 26 tracked years.
- The homepage has no sensitive login form, hidden form, wallet activity, or suspicious external destination.
- The homepage links to established social channels and provides branch, support, and banking-service pathways.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site includes About, management, board, shareholders, annual-report, audited-financial, quarterly-report, and market-discipline pages, providing substantive institutional disclosure. No license number or licensing authority is claimed in the supplied page evidence; this is a verification gap concerning regulatory transparency, not an identity contradiction. The available third-party context contains no broker match, while the broader technical and reputational evidence supports a legitimate established entity.
- The About section provides profile, mission, vision, values, management, board, and shareholder information.
- The Financial & Regulatory Reports section lists annual, audited, quarterly, and market-discipline materials.
- The site is served from AS16276 (OVH - OVH SAS, FR).
- TLS uses a DV certificate issued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, valid to 2026-08-28.
What to Verify Next
Confirm the bank’s current authorization and applicable regulatory status directly through the relevant official financial-services registry, and independently validate support or branch details through an offline institutional channel before relying on them for material transactions.
- The homepage provides “Our Locations” and a toll-free support route for independent channel confirmation.
- The site exposes dedicated “Financial & Regulatory Reports” and “Contact” pathways for documentary and operational verification.
Summary Verdict
The website has a high-trust posture consistent with a legitimate, established banking institution. Its identity, content, historical continuity, technical operation, and reputation signals converge without contradictory evidence, making normal interaction appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site uses CDN/WAF protection and resolves through OVH infrastructure in France; the observed address is an edge address, and no origin server was exposed in the analysis. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating infrastructure control, not independent proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal account login and standard banking use are appropriate, with ordinary transaction-review and institutional verification controls applied to material financial activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 azaniabank.co.tz.
- The request stayed on azaniabank.co.tz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under REG-APTUS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dsolutions.host, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2029-07-26. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-12-07. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | REG-APTUS |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 162.19.169.188 |
| Name servers | ns05.dsolutions.host, ns06.dsolutions.host |
| SSL issuer | Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-28 |
| Domain age | 17.0 years |
| Domain expiry | 2029-07-26 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-12-07 |
| Archive snapshots | 353 |
| 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 azaniabank.co.tz 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.