Verdict
boscos.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 | Official-looking website for BOSCO'S, a comics, cards and games retailer in Anchorage, Alaska. Provides addresses, phone numbers, hours, event calendar link and contact email; appears to be an informational / retail site. |
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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 | 30 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1998420 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 1998.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
BOSCO’S is an official-looking local retail website for a comics, sports-cards, tabletop-games, and collectibles business in Anchorage, Alaska. It presents store locations, opening hours, product categories, event information, and contact details, indicating a brick-and-mortar retail and events model rather than a financial-services or credential-collection operation.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Contradictory external security evidence materially changes the assessment despite the site’s coherent retail presentation and absence of page-level phishing, login, wallet, or sensitive-form indicators. The domain is subject to a confirmed blacklist hit, with two malicious and one suspicious external detections reported, creating a significant risk for sensitive interactions. No conflicting legal-entity names or apparent brand impersonation were identified across the supplied site content. The site’s published contact address, [email protected], is a contact-channel integrity anomaly because the address uses a domain associated with the website while the wider external reputation remains adverse; this should not be treated as proof of fraud, but it warrants independent confirmation before engagement.
- External reputation telemetry records 2 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with a confirmed blacklist hit from 2 external sources.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 1996-10-11 and an age of 29.87 years.
- Historical records contain 420 snapshots from 1998-04-23 through 2026-07-04, spanning 29 tracked years.
- The homepage and contact material present a consistent local-retail identity, while page analysis found no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or brand-impersonation indicator.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The supplied pages describe ordinary retail sales and store events, not a regulated financial product. No licensing claim or license number is identified in the available site material; for this business model, that is a transparency and verification matter rather than evidence of a scam. The site’s real-world operator identity remains independently unverified. The domain’s long registration continuity, GoDaddy.com, LLC registration, identifiable hosting, and valid transport encryption are positive technical indicators, but they do not resolve the adverse external reputation or independently establish the operator’s identity.
- The domain registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC; the registration record shows creation on 1996-10-11 and expiry on 2028-10-10.
- The site is served from AS398787, operated by GO-DADDY-COM-LLC (GoDaddy.com, LLC), US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by WE1 at DV validation level and is valid to 2026-11-07T21:20:52+00:00.
- The store and contact pages describe a retail business with physical locations and telephone numbers but do not identify a licensing authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before any purchase, account creation, or submission of personal or payment information, independently confirm that the listed Anchorage premises and telephone details correspond to the intended business. Contact channels should be validated through an independently sourced route, such as a directory, official local-business record, or in-person confirmation, rather than relying solely on the website. Any transaction should use payment protection with dispute rights, and current security-status checks should be repeated immediately before engagement.
- The contact page provides the business locations and telephone details that can be checked through an independent source.
- The events page provides a separate operational reference point that can be compared with independently obtained store information.
- The homepage contains no account-login or sensitive-data form, so any later request for such information should be treated as a change in interaction scope requiring renewed validation.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust, with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site presents a plausible local-retail profile and substantial historical continuity, but the confirmed external security contradictions outweigh those positive contextual signals. The available evidence does not support treating the website as suitable for credentials, payments, or other sensitive use without independent validation.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection provides a mitigating layer against direct exposure and common web attacks, while observed CDN edge servers and potential origin candidates indicate that the hosting topology is not a standalone legitimacy signal. Protective infrastructure cannot offset the adverse reputation evidence.
- Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection was detected.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 5 CDN edge IPs and 2 potential origin candidates, for 7 unique observed IPs.
- The hosting environment is associated with GoDaddy.com, LLC in the United States.
Closing Assessment
Sensitive actions should be deferred until the business identity, contact channels, and transaction arrangements have been independently confirmed; interim use should remain limited to non-sensitive browsing.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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, behaviour in a sandbox.
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 - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS
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 boscos.com.
- The request stayed on boscos.com. 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 2028-10-10. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1998-04-23. Clear
- It is hosted on GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 198.71.233.90 |
| Name servers | NS45.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS46.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-07 |
| Domain age | 29.87 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-10-10 |
| Archive first seen | 1998-04-23 |
| Archive snapshots | 420 |
| 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 boscos.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.