Verdict
betabtp.com 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 | Corporate homepage for BETA (Bureau d'Etudes Techniques et d'Aménagement). Contains company description, services (topography, photogrammetry, surveying, construction, maintenance, training), contact details (email and phone), address and operational hours. No sign-in forms or financial investment offerings. |
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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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
BETA is a corporate engineering consultancy presenting technical studies, topography, bathymetry, photogrammetry, surveying, construction-related work, training, and equipment maintenance services, with the apparent business model of earning revenue through consulting engagements, service contracts, repairs, and training.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is coherent with a corporate engineering business and contains no sign-in form, financial offering, wallet function, or observed phishing form. However, this benign presentation is contradicted by external reputation findings: the domain is recorded on a blacklist and received three malicious detections. The available evidence does not establish brand impersonation or conflicting legal identities, but the confirmed blacklist signal creates a material risk for sensitive interaction and outweighs the otherwise low-risk appearance of the homepage.
- The homepage presents a corporate engineering profile and contains no login or sensitive-data form.
- External reputation checks recorded the domain as blacklisted, with 3 malicious detections.
- Domain registration telemetry records 2011-09-07 creation and an age of 14.96 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The “Présentation” and “A propos de nous” pages identify the business as BETA and describe its operating activities, but the real-world operator remains independently unverified. The site does not state a licensing authority or license number for the professional services described, leaving a regulatory-disclosure gap that should be resolved independently rather than treated as proof of misconduct. The published contact and address information support an apparent business identity, but on-page claims alone do not validate legal status or authorization.
- The “Présentation” and “A propos de nous” pages identify BETA as the Bureau d’Etudes Techniques et d’Aménagement.
- The legal and identity content does not provide a licensing authority or license number.
- The site is hosted on AS16276 operated by OVH - OVH SAS, FR.
- Transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE1, valid to 2026-11-07T09:47:51+00:00.
What to Verify Next
An independent corporate-registry search should confirm the legal entity corresponding to BETA and the published business address. The relevant Togolese professional or commercial authority should be consulted to confirm whether the advertised engineering, surveying, construction, training, or equipment-maintenance activities require authorization and whether such authorization exists. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced channel, and any proposed payment, credential exchange, or document submission should remain suspended until the external reputation finding is satisfactorily explained.
- Independent registry confirmation is required because the operator identity is not independently verified.
- Licensing status should be checked with the relevant professional or commercial authority because no licensing authority or number is stated on the site.
- The confirmed external reputation finding requires resolution before sensitive interaction.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust, with a high risk associated with credentials, payments, and other sensitive exchanges. The website appears professionally structured at the content level, but that apparent legitimacy does not overcome the confirmed external contradiction, and the operator’s real-world identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, which is a mitigating control against direct exposure of the underlying service but is not evidence of legitimacy. Observed network visibility was limited to CDN edge infrastructure, so hosting-level attribution should not be treated as independent validation of the operator.
- CDN/WAF protection is present, with 2 observed edge IP addresses and 0 likely origin IP candidates.
- Observed edge address 188.165.53.185 resolves through AS16276.
- Infrastructure provider is OVH - OVH SAS, FR, with registry RIPE NCC and country FR.
Closing Assessment
Pending independent resolution of the reputation and identity concerns, activity should be limited to non-sensitive viewing; credentials, financial information, and other sensitive materials should not be 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
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
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 | 25% |
- 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 betabtp.com.
- The request stayed on betabtp.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under OVH, SAS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ovh.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-09-07. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-04-09. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | OVH, SAS |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 2001:41d0:301::21 |
| Name servers | DNS107.OVH.NET, NS107.OVH.NET |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-07 |
| Domain age | 14.96 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-09-07 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-04-09 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about betabtp.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.