Verdict
azuma-engei.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 | Official website for Azuma Engei (East Gardening) Green Plaza: provides store/product information, landscaping and garden services, classes, contact details and company address in Miyagi prefecture, Japan. |
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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 2016Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | 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 2016.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Azuma Engei Green Plaza is the official website of a Japanese garden center and landscaping contractor, presenting plant and gardening-supply sales, garden design and maintenance services, horticultural workshops, store information, contact details, and a company address in Miyagi Prefecture.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site's content is consistent with an ordinary local gardening business: it describes seasonal flowers, plants, gardening materials, garden renovation, tree pruning and removal, maintenance, and paid or instructional horticultural classes. The site contains a general contact form rather than a login or payment-credential workflow, and observed behavior showed no phishing indicators, wallet-connect activity, hidden forms, cloaking, or brand-impersonation pattern. Available external reputation signals also contained no confirmed malicious or phishing finding, although reputation coverage was not comprehensive. The real-world operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified, so the site's own company statement should be treated as an apparent identity claim rather than conclusive proof.
- The homepage identifies “東園芸 Green Plaza” as the official website of 株式会社 東園芸 and presents gardening retail, landscaping, maintenance, and workshop services.
- The company and contact pages provide a named business location in Natori, Miyagi Prefecture, together with a telephone contact and internal links for company information and inquiries.
- The site's technical behavior recorded no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, cloaking, or suspicious inline script.
- The domain was registered on 2015-01-29 and is approximately 11.57 years old; registration is shown through GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website provides business-context disclosures appropriate to a local retail and landscaping operation, including company information, an address, telephone contact, service descriptions, and an inquiry route. No regulated financial or investment activity is presented, and no regulatory licence claim is made. Accordingly, the principal verification point is ordinary commercial identity and service transparency rather than financial licensing. The page lacks some formal web-publishing enhancements, including a meta description and structured data, but these are quality observations rather than indicators of deception. The available third-party broker context produced no name match, which is only a reputational signal and not a legal or licensing determination.
- The company-information and contact pages identify the business location and contact route in Miyagi Prefecture.
- The homepage and service pages describe retail plant sales, landscaping design and construction, maintenance, and horticultural instruction without presenting financial products or regulated investment services.
- The domain's archive record contains 51 snapshots spanning 2016–2026, with 11 years tracked.
- The site is hosted on AS131965 (XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP); its TLS certificate is issued by YR2 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-09-26.
What to Verify Next
Before a payment or service commitment, an interested party should independently match the company's legal name, physical address, and telephone number against an authoritative Japanese business or local commercial source. For landscaping work, the quotation should define scope, materials, schedule, maintenance obligations, cancellation terms, and any deposit or refund conditions. Payment should use a method providing appropriate transaction records and dispute or chargeback protection, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent offline route where the transaction is material.
- The company-information page supplies the legal-name and location details needed for an independent identity match.
- The contact page provides the telephone and inquiry route for confirming service arrangements.
- The landscaping and store-information pages define the categories of goods and services that should be reflected in any quotation or receipt.
- The site's single contact form is suitable for initial inquiry but does not, by itself, establish payment, refund, or contract protections.
Summary Verdict
The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate local business website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or other contradictory signal was identified, while independent confirmation of the real-world operator remains appropriate because identity verification is not conclusive.
Infrastructure Integrity
No CDN or WAF layer was identified, and the site resolves to a directly hosted endpoint rather than an edge-distributed network. This offers fewer intermediary protection layers than CDN-backed hosting, but the observed posture is not itself evidence of malicious activity.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and initial business inquiries are proportionate; before credentials or payment details are exchanged, ordinary independent merchant-identity, service-terms, and payment-protection checks should be completed.
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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- 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 azuma-engei.com.
- The request stayed on azuma-engei.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ne.jp, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-29. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-03-18. Clear
- It is hosted on XSERVER, from a server in JP. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GMO Internet Group, Inc. d/b/a Onamae.com |
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| Hosting | XSERVER - Xserver Inc., JP |
| Country | JP |
| Server IP | 85.131.210.11 |
| Name servers | NS1.XBIZ.NE.JP, NS2.XBIZ.NE.JP, NS3.XBIZ.NE.JP |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-26 |
| Domain age | 11.57 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-29 |
| Archive first seen | 2016-03-18 |
| 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 azuma-engei.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.