Verdict
carrosel.co.ke 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 | Carrosel Cleaning Services Ltd is a Kenya-based cleaning contractor offering residential and commercial cleaning, pest control, post-construction cleanup, and related services. The site provides contact phone number, email, physical address, service list, FAQs, and a quote request call-to-action. |
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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 | 4 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| 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: more than 10 years (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.
This is a Kenya-based cleaning-services website for Carrosel Cleaning Services Ltd, presenting residential and commercial cleaning, pest control, post-construction cleaning, service-area information, FAQs, contact details, and a quote-request process intended to generate paid service engagements in Nairobi and surrounding counties.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s content presents a conventional local-services business and the reviewed pages contain no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet function, or explicit phishing mechanism. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat detections: four malicious and one suspicious detections were recorded, and the domain appears on external blacklist sources. These signals create a material risk that the website or its infrastructure may be unsafe for sensitive interaction, even though the page-level content itself contains no explicit fraud red flags. No separate identity inconsistency or brand-impersonation finding was identified in the supplied evidence.
- The homepage presents cleaning services and a quote request rather than a credential or financial-login workflow.
- The site’s behavioral review recorded no login form, hidden form, wallet connection, credential capture, or clipboard-hijacking activity.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 4 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection, with blacklist status confirmed by 2 external sources.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2016-01-19 and an age of 10.59 years; registrar: Webhost Ultima Limited.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About and homepage content identifies the business as Carrosel Cleaning Services Ltd and describes it as a Kenya-based contract cleaning company. The site claims “15+ Years Experience,” “1000+ Clients Served,” “24/7 Support,” and a “4.9” client-trust figure, but the supplied pages provide no supporting evidence for those counters or claims. No licence, registration number, or regulatory authority is disclosed in the reviewed content; for a cleaning contractor this is principally a verification and transparency gap rather than standalone evidence of fraud. The real-world operator identity remains unverified, and the apparent business identity should not be treated as independently established.
- Historical records show 178 archive snapshots spanning 2018-04-21 to 2025-01-29, covering 8 years.
- The site resolves to AS37061, operated by Safaricom Limited - Safaricom Limited, KE.
- Transport security uses a DV TLS certificate issued by YE1, valid through 2026-08-27.
- The homepage and About content identify “Carrosel Cleaning Services Ltd” but do not display a licence or registration reference.
What to Verify Next
Before any commercial engagement, an independent registry or corporate-record check should confirm the operating entity associated with the site and the legal capacity to contract. The quoted scope, beneficiary details, physical operating presence, insurance position, and references should be validated through independently sourced channels rather than relying solely on the website. Any payment should use a method providing dispute or recovery protections, and sensitive account or credential activity should remain suspended unless the external threat findings are resolved.
- The site’s quote-request and contact pathways should be corroborated through an independently obtained business contact route.
- The service claims and client-volume assertions should be checked against independently sourced customer references or documented contracts.
- Payment and beneficiary details should be matched to the independently verified contracting entity before funds are transferred.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical risk. The website’s professional local-business presentation does not offset the confirmed external threat and blacklist signals, while the operator’s identity remains unverified. Sensitive interaction, credential submission, and financial engagement are not appropriate on the available evidence.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly on one identified likely-origin address in Safaricom Limited’s AS37061 network in Kenya, with no detected CDN or WAF layer and no edge-IP separation. The DV TLS certificate provides transport encryption but does not authenticate the business operator; infrastructure therefore offers no meaningful basis for reducing the external reputation concern.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate disposition is to restrict activity to passive review and defer login, credential submission, payment, or contractual commitment until independent business verification and resolution of the external security detections have been completed.
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, external reputation.
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 - 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 |
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| 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 carrosel.co.ke.
- The request stayed on carrosel.co.ke. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Webhost Ultima Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.ke, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-01-19. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-04-21. Clear
- It is hosted on Safaricom Limited, from a server in KE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Webhost Ultima Limited |
|---|---|
| Hosting | Safaricom Limited - Safaricom Limited, KE |
| Country | KE |
| Server IP | 41.90.125.10 |
| Name servers | ns1.webhostkenya.co.ke, ns2.webhostkenya.co.ke |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-27 |
| Domain age | 10.59 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-01-19 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-04-21 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 4 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about carrosel.co.ke 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.