Verdict
budsnbite.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | E-commerce florist site (Buds n' Bite) selling handcrafted bouquets with same-day delivery across Hong Kong, product listings, FAQ, delivery info, and a content journal. |
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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 | 5 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 months oldMost scam domains are under a year old | Watch |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: less than 1 year (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Buds n’ Bite is an e-commerce florist presenting handcrafted bouquets, gift products, delivery information, FAQs, and floral-journal content, with an apparent business model based on direct bouquet sales, optional corporate accounts, and same-day delivery across Hong Kong.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content presents a coherent florist business and contains no identified brand-impersonation indicators, sensitive login forms, wallet functionality, or suspicious browser behavior. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external blacklist status and multiple malicious detections, including a Tier-1 security-vendor detection; these are direct reputation contradictions requiring a security-forward posture. The contradictions concern external threat intelligence rather than a demonstrated conflict between legal identities, and the available evidence does not establish that the florist claims themselves are genuine. No identity contradiction was observed.
- The homepage describes bouquet sales, Hong Kong delivery, product listings, and prices, while the page analysis records no content red flags or login form.
- External reputation testing recorded confirmed blacklist status, multiple malicious detections, and one suspicious detection.
- Archive-reconciled domain continuity is 6.568104038329911 years, with first observation on 2018-08-04 and last observation on 2026-05-18; the historical record contains 23 snapshots across 9 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About, Contact, FAQ, and Delivery content supports an identifiable commercial offering but does not, in the supplied material, independently verify the real-world operator. No licensing claim or registration number is presented; for an online florist this is primarily a disclosure and merchant-verification gap rather than standalone evidence of fraud. The available broker-reputation dataset contains no match, but that absence is contextual only and is not a licensing or regulatory determination.
- The About and Contact navigation identifies the relevant business-information pages, but the supplied page content does not establish a verified legal entity.
- The site does not present a license claim, licensing authority, or registration number in the available business-model and page content.
- The domain registrar is GoDaddy.com, LLC.
- The site uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YE1, valid through 2026-10-07T23:54:56+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any purchase or submission of personal or payment information, independently confirm that the operator, delivery service, refund terms, and payment recipient correspond to a real Hong Kong merchant. Licensing or business-registration status, where applicable to the transaction structure, should be checked against the relevant official registry rather than relying on site statements. Contact channels should also be confirmed through an independently obtained business record or offline route, and payment methods should provide meaningful dispute or chargeback protection.
- The homepage provides commercial product and delivery claims that should be reconciled with independently sourced merchant information.
- The FAQ and Delivery pages are the relevant pages for confirming cancellation, delivery, substitution, and refund conditions.
- The Contact page is the relevant location for validating the business’s operational contact routes independently.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. The site’s plausible retail presentation does not overcome the confirmed external reputation contradictions, and the real-world operator remains unverified. Passive viewing is materially different from trusting the site with credentials, personal information, or payment activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is served through CDN/WAF edge infrastructure operated by OVH - OVH SAS, with observed origin exposure mitigated by edge-only visibility. This protection can reduce direct exposure of the underlying host, but it does not validate the site’s legitimacy or offset the external reputation findings.
- Observed edge addresses are 2607:5300:202::51 and 51.161.122.78, both associated with AS16276.
- Hosting infrastructure is identified as OVH - OVH SAS, FR, with the observed network country recorded as Canada.
- The infrastructure analysis identified two edge IP addresses and zero origin candidates.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate disposition is to limit activity to passive review until the external reputation issue and merchant identity have been independently resolved; credentials and payment details should not be submitted in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - 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
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
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 budsnbite.com.
- The request stayed on budsnbite.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 2026-12-12. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-04. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 2607:5300:202::51 |
| Name servers | NS65.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS66.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-07 |
| Domain age | 0.69 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-12 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-04 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about budsnbite.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.