Verdict
basundhara.org.in is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Informational website for BASUNDHARA, a voluntary organisation and rehabilitation centre providing adoption services, shelters, child care programs, and community initiatives. Contact details and program summaries are present; no evidence of financial investment, credential harvesting, or impersonation. |
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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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.1 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
BASUNDHARA is an informational website presenting a voluntary organisation and rehabilitation centre that provides child rehabilitation, adoption support, shelters, care programmes, educational sponsorship, and community initiatives, with donations and organisational contact information as its apparent support model.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a charity or NGO: the homepage describes child, women, and elder rehabilitation, adoption procedures, shelter services, and community work, and the inspected pages contain no login form, credential-harvesting mechanism, financial-investment promotion, or detected brand-impersonation indicators. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by a confirmed blacklist hit and multiple malicious detections from external reputation sources. These signals create a direct contradiction between the site’s stated charitable purpose and its externally observed reputation, so sensitive interaction should be treated as unsafe pending independent resolution. No identity contradiction, phishing indicator, or impersonation finding was observed in the supplied page-content evidence.
- The homepage identifies BASUNDHARA as a voluntary rehabilitation organisation and describes adoption, shelter, care, and community programmes.
- The inspected site contained no login form, hidden sensitive form, external password form, wallet-drainer activity, or credential-collection mechanism.
- External reputation evaluation recorded 2 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, together with a confirmed blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage states that BASUNDHARA is registered under the Society Registration Act 1860 and was established in 1985, but the supplied content does not provide a registration number, licence number, or independently verifiable regulator reference. The real-world operator identity remains unverified, and the available disclosure is therefore insufficient to establish that the online service is operated by the organisation described. This is a verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud; nevertheless, it is significant given the adverse external reputation signals. A valid domain registration and mainstream transport security provide infrastructure continuity but do not establish legal identity or regulatory standing.
- Domain registration telemetry: created 2018-08-02, age 8.05 years, registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC, with expiry on 2027-08-02.
- Confirmed technical evidence identifies hosting on AS16509, AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US, at 43.204.159.153.
- TLS telemetry: issuer YE1, validation level DV, valid through 2026-10-22T08:07:01+00:00.
- The homepage claims registration under the Society Registration Act 1860 but does not display a registration or licence number in the supplied content.
What to Verify Next
Before any donation, account creation, document submission, or other sensitive interaction, an institution should independently confirm BASUNDHARA’s registration and current operating status through the relevant government or statutory registry, using contact information obtained from that registry rather than relying solely on the website. The organisation’s telephone and physical-location details should be validated through an independent offline or governmental source, and any payment destination should be checked to ensure that it is held in the verified organisation’s name. The external reputation findings should also be escalated to the site owner or hosting provider for clarification before the domain is trusted for sensitive use.
- The homepage publishes telephone numbers, an organisational email address, programme descriptions, and location information suitable for independent cross-checking.
- The inspected site is informational and contains no sensitive submission form, so the principal verification requirement concerns organisational identity and payment handling.
- Technical inspection recorded 36 console errors, indicating that site maintenance or implementation quality should also be clarified if sensitive functions are later introduced.
Summary Verdict
The website has a low-trust posture and presents elevated risk for sensitive interaction. Its charitable presentation is coherent at the content level, but the confirmed adverse external reputation and unresolved operator identity prevent the site from being treated as an established, verified entity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is served through Amazon infrastructure and protected by an AWS CDN/WAF layer; the observed address is an edge address and the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This provides a mitigating layer against direct origin exposure, but infrastructure protection cannot offset the site’s adverse reputation signals or establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Until independent registry, organisational, and payment-channel checks are complete and the reputation issue is resolved, use should be limited to passive reading, with no credentials, identity documents, or funds submitted.
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.
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
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 basundhara.org.in.
- The request stayed on basundhara.org.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-02. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-07-03. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 43.204.159.153 |
| Name servers | ns20.domaincontrol.com, ns19.domaincontrol.com |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 8.05 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-02 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-07-03 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about basundhara.org.in 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.