Verdict
cartec.ma 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 | Page d’accueil de CARTEC.ma, une boutique marocaine de pièces et consommables automobiles permettant de rechercher des références selon la marque, le modèle et la motorisation du véhicule. |
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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 | 6.8 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 202122 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2021.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is a Moroccan e-commerce storefront for automotive parts, accessories and consumables, enabling customers to select a vehicle by make, model and engine configuration, locate compatible components, add them to a cart and complete an online purchase.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradiction, brand impersonation, phishing behavior or other scam indicator was observed. The CARTEC presentation is consistent with the site’s automotive-retail function, while its long-established registration, continuous historical use and clean external reputation provide convergent evidence of legitimate operation. Interactive testing found stable behavior without cloaking, hidden forms, suspicious scripts, credential forwarding or anomalous external requests.
- The domain registration record identifies APEG as the owner and GENIOUS COMMUNICATIONS as the registrar; registered 24 October 2019 (~6.77 years old), with expiry on 24 October 2027.
- The web archive contains 22 snapshots spanning 21 February 2021–20 August 2025 (5 years tracked), with no suspicious repurposing or semantic drift identified.
- The homepage consistently presents CARTEC as an automotive-parts retailer and contains no detected brand-impersonation indicators.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no malicious safe-browsing classification, no abuse reports, and inclusion in the global top one million at rank 787,758.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available site content references payment, delivery, withdrawal, general terms and privacy pages, which is appropriate for a consumer e-commerce operation. The assessed material does not clearly establish the complete legal disclosures contained on those pages, and no licence is claimed; for an automotive-parts retailer, that is a disclosure-verification matter rather than evidence of fraud. No contradictory legal-entity names or adverse broker association were identified.
- The assessed storefront navigation references general terms, privacy, payment, delivery and withdrawal information.
- The registration artifact names APEG, and no competing legal identity was observed across the supplied page evidence.
- The homepage makes no regulatory-licence claim or representation of financial supervision.
- Third-party broker intelligence produced no match for the site or its presented business.
What to Verify Next
Before procurement or supplier onboarding, an enterprise should match the contracting seller’s legal name, address and tax or commercial-registration details against the invoice and applicable Moroccan registry. The published delivery, return, warranty and refund conditions should be reviewed for time limits, costs and dispute procedures, while payment should proceed through the checkout method formally presented by the site. Official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent business record when establishing a recurring commercial relationship.
- The homepage includes a sign-in entry and shopping-cart workflow but displayed no sensitive form or externally directed credential form during assessment.
- The catalogue covers identifiable component groups including braking, filtration, cooling, electrical systems, drivetrain parts, lubricants and hybrid/electric-drive components.
- Product discovery requires make, model and engine selection, supporting vehicle-specific compatibility checking.
- The supplied page analysis identified no social-domain links, making the website and formal business records the principal available validation channels.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established and trustworthy automotive e-commerce operation. Its identity, operating history, reputation and observed behavior converge without contradictory risk signals. Normal interaction—including account login, account activity and standard purchases—is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site uses mainstream Amazon infrastructure with valid domain-validated transport encryption. This reduces direct hosting exposure and supports secure browser-to-site communication, although infrastructure protection is a mitigating control rather than independent proof of business legitimacy.
- The hosting infrastructure serves the site from AS16509 (AMAZON-02 — Amazon.com, Inc., US).
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04 (DV) and is valid until 24 November 2026.
- The observed infrastructure address is categorized as content-delivery infrastructure and had 0 reported abuse incidents.
Closing Assessment
Prospective customers and enterprise counterparties may engage through the site’s normal account and purchasing workflows, applying ordinary e-commerce controls for order documentation, payment records and goods acceptance.
Written analysis generated 2026-07-31 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 cartec.ma.
- The request stayed on cartec.ma. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GENIOUS COMMUNICATIONS. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by co.uk, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-10-24. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-02-21. Clear
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GENIOUS COMMUNICATIONS |
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| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 18.165.122.51 |
| Name servers | ns-1872.awsdns-42.co.uk, ns-1436.awsdns-51.org, ns-253.awsdns-31.com, ns-736.awsdns-28.net |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M04 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-24 |
| Domain age | 6.8 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-10-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-02-21 |
| Archive snapshots | 22 |
| 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 cartec.ma 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.