Verdict
cartagena.gov.co 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 | Homepage of the Alcaldía Distrital de Cartagena de Indias, providing municipal news, citizen services, procedures, transparency information, public participation resources, tax access, contact details, and institutional directories. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 | 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).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the official-looking public-sector portal of the Alcaldía Distrital de Cartagena de Indias, presenting municipal news, citizen services, procedures, transparency information, tax access, public participation resources, institutional directories, and contact channels for Cartagena residents and stakeholders.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent municipal-government identity and public-service purpose, with no phishing, brand-impersonation, financial-deception, cryptocurrency, wallet, or sensitive-form indicators. External reputation checks were clean, and no suspicious contact-channel anomaly was identified.
- Homepage identified as a government/public-service portal with no detected red flags.
- Homepage behavior showed no login form, hidden form, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist finding.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s stated function is civic administration rather than a financial or investment service, so no financial-license claim is expected from the supplied evidence. The homepage provides transparency resources, institutional directories, citizen procedures, tax access, and contact details; formal licensing or registration numbers are not presented in the available material and should be treated as a limited disclosure point rather than an indicator of deception. The domain is registered through www.registrocolombia.co, and its institutional identity is reinforced by an OV certificate naming DISTRITO TURISTICO Y CULTURAL DE CARTAGENA DE INDIAS.
- Domain registered on 2007-03-22 and expiring on 2027-03-28; registrar: www.registrocolombia.co; age: 19.38 years.
- TLS certificate uses OV validation, is issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, and is valid to 2026-08-18.
- Homepage title identifies “Alcaldía Mayor de Cartagena de Indias” and includes municipal transparency and institutional-service content.
What to Verify Next
For formal onboarding or high-value civic transactions, independently confirm the municipality’s current official contact and service channels through an authoritative government directory, and confirm any specific payment or tax instructions against the relevant municipal department.
- Homepage provides citizen-assistance, tax-access, contact, and institutional-directory functions.
- The portal’s stated business model is public-sector information and service delivery rather than direct commercial monetization.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a legitimate, established, and trustworthy public-service posture. Its identity, purpose, clean technical behavior, and supporting infrastructure converge without contradictory signals, making normal interaction, including account login and standard use, appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is served through Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF infrastructure, which provides a mitigating layer against direct origin exposure. Observed addresses are CDN edge systems rather than identified origin servers.
- Hosted on AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc.), US; observed edge IP: 104.18.20.16.
- Four CDN edge addresses were observed, with zero likely origin addresses identified.
- TLS is OV-validated and issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1.
Closing Assessment
Standard browsing, account access, and ordinary municipal-service interactions are appropriate; transaction details should remain consistent with the relevant municipal procedure and independently confirmed official channels.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 | 55/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 60% |
- Identity verified on page
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 cartagena.gov.co.
- The request stayed on cartagena.gov.co. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under www.registrocolombia.co. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-28. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | www.registrocolombia.co |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6812:1410 |
| Name servers | ASA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM, HUGH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-08-18 |
| Domain age | 19.4 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-28 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 cartagena.gov.co 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.