Verdict
bobshop.co.za 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 | E-commerce marketplace (Bob Shop) for South Africa offering auctions and fixed-price listings across many categories, with buyer protection, verified sellers, promotions and payment/shipping services. |
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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 2023984 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2023.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Bob Shop is a South African e-commerce marketplace presenting auctions and fixed-price listings across numerous retail categories, supported by seller tools, buyer-protection claims, payment and shipping services, promotions, and related services such as Bob Pay, Bob Go, and Bob Box.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent marketplace model involving product listings, auctions, verified sellers, buyer protections, and standard account and checkout functions; it does not present cryptocurrency, investment, high-yield, or other high-risk financial propositions. The available reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious classification, no phishing or brand-impersonation indication, and no reported abuse associated with the observed infrastructure. The site appears established and legitimate on the available evidence, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage is titled “Bob Shop online shopping South Africa | bid or buy today” and contains extensive marketplace content, product categories, auction functions, seller tools, and buyer-oriented services.
- The domain was registered on 2014-06-25 and is approximately 12.13 years old; registration information identifies DIAMATRIX C.C. as registrar and Bob Group (Pty) Ltd trading as Bob as the registrant organization.
- Historical records contain 984 snapshots spanning 2023-03-02 to 2026-08-08, covering 4 tracked years, with no detected suspicious repurposing or semantic drift.
- External reputation results recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, with no blacklist or phishing hit observed.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent business model is ordinary e-commerce rather than a service that inherently presents itself as a regulated financial provider. The available page content does not state a regulatory license or license number, so any sector-specific obligations applicable to the marketplace, payment services, sellers, or particular transactions should be confirmed independently. This is a disclosure and verification matter, not evidence of impersonation or fraud. The available evidence is consistent with an established website, while it does not independently prove the legal identity of the operator.
- The homepage describes an online marketplace connecting buyers with verified sellers and identifies payments, shipping, seller fees, commissions, promoted listings, and related services as part of the operating model.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and is valid through 2026-10-11.
- The hosting infrastructure is associated with AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc., United States.
- The site has an established global traffic footprint and was not matched in the available broker-reputation context.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an enterprise or consumer should independently confirm the marketplace operator’s legal identity, review the applicable terms, returns, refunds, buyer-protection conditions, and payment-dispute process, and confirm any relevant registration or licensing requirement with the appropriate registry. High-value transactions should use payment methods with established dispute protection, and official contact channels should be confirmed through an independent route.
- The homepage provides login, registration, and checkout-related forms, making account and payment controls relevant to the pre-transaction review.
- The marketplace advertises verified sellers, buyer protection, payment services, and shipping services; those protections should be checked against the operative terms before reliance.
- The site provides a Help function and telephone contact presentation on the homepage, creating channels that can be independently validated before sensitive interaction.
Summary Verdict
The website has a high-trust, low-risk posture and is apparently legitimate, with strong convergence across its substantive marketplace content, long registration continuity, historical presence, clean external reputation, valid transport security, and established infrastructure. The evidence supports normal browsing and ordinary marketplace use, but it does not independently verify the real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, and the observed addresses were CDN edge servers rather than exposed origin infrastructure. This is a mitigating defensive characteristic that reduces direct origin exposure, but it is not, by itself, proof of ownership or legitimacy.
- Observed edge infrastructure: AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc., United States; edge address 104.26.0.195 was recorded.
- TLS issuer: WE1; validation level: DV; certificate expiry: 2026-10-11T17:58:03+00:00.
- Six observed addresses were classified as CDN edge servers, with zero likely origin addresses identified.
Closing Assessment
Routine interaction is proportionate to the assessed posture, provided that independent merchant-identity, transaction-protection, and dispute-process checks are completed before credentials or payments are submitted.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | 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 bobshop.co.za.
- The request stayed on bobshop.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under DIAMATRIX C.C.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-25. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2023-03-02. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | DIAMATRIX C.C. |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:20::ac43:453f |
| Name servers | amit.ns.cloudflare.com, marge.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-11 |
| Domain age | 12.13 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-25 |
| Archive first seen | 2023-03-02 |
| Archive snapshots | 984 |
| 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 bobshop.co.za 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.