Verdict
ckingtea.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 | Company website for C.King Tea Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., offering consultancy services to tea plantations and manufacturers and selling branded tea products. Includes office address, phone numbers, emails, founder names and service descriptions. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 12 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018236 snapshots | 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.
C.King Tea Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. is a corporate website presenting tea-plantation and manufacturing consultancy, garden-management, budgetary-control, packaging, and branded tea-product services, with the apparent business model of earning consultancy fees and product-sale revenue.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s stated tea-consultancy business model is coherent, and the reviewed homepage contains substantial commercial information rather than financial solicitation, login functionality, or wallet interaction. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist finding and multiple external malicious detections, creating a material contradiction between the website’s apparent business purpose and its external security reputation. No distinct conflicting legal identities, brand-impersonation finding, or phishing flag was observed; the decisive concern is the confirmed external reputation failure, not the tea-related content itself. The domain’s established registration and historical continuity are positive provenance indicators, but they do not neutralize the blacklist signal.
- The homepage identifies C.King Tea Consultancy Pvt. Ltd. and describes plantation, manufacturing, packaging, and tea-product activities.
- The domain was registered on 2015-01-16 and is approximately 11.6 years old.
- Historical records contain 236 snapshots spanning 9 tracked years, from 2018-06-10 through 2026-04-16.
- External reputation checks recorded a confirmed blacklist hit, with 6 malicious and 1 suspicious detections in the evaluated results.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage provides a company name, Kolkata office address, telephone numbers, named founders, and business-service descriptions, which supports a plausible corporate presentation. Nevertheless, the real-world operator remains independently unverified, and the reviewed content does not show a license, registration number, or regulator responsible for authorizing the consultancy or product-sales activity. This is a verification gap rather than a standalone determination of fraud. The available technical controls show ordinary transport protection and identifiable hosting, but neither establishes legal status nor resolves the external reputation concern. No matching third-party broker record was identified.
- The homepage lists “C.King Tea Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.” at Chandan Niketan, 5th Floor, 52A Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and names Mr. B. Dosi and Mr. Vinay Dosi as directors.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YE1, uses DV validation, and is valid to 2026-11-17.
- The site is served from AS47583, identified as AS-HOSTINGER – Hostinger International Limited, CY.
- The reviewed business content contains no stated license authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before any sensitive interaction, an independent party should confirm that the named company, office location, directors, and telephone contacts correspond to a currently operating business through an offline or independently sourced channel. Any applicable Indian corporate, trading, product-safety, or commercial-registration requirements should be checked with the relevant official registry rather than relying on the website’s own statements. The external blacklist result should also be resolved with the relevant security or hosting providers before credentials, payments, or business documents are exchanged. Until those checks are completed, activity should remain limited to non-sensitive viewing.
- The homepage provides named personnel, fixed-line telephone numbers, an office address, and contact channels that can be independently corroborated.
- Technical testing observed no login form, hidden form, password-external submission, wallet-provider detection, or external network POST activity.
- The site completed 2 of 2 behavioral runs successfully with stable HTTP 200 responses, while recording 12 console errors.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Although the website presents a coherent small-business identity and has meaningful registration and historical continuity, the confirmed external blacklist and malicious detections dominate the assessment. The operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified, so the apparent business legitimacy should not be treated as established fact.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is directly hosted on Hostinger infrastructure rather than behind a detected CDN, with four resolved addresses assessed as likely origin addresses. The infrastructure is identifiable and technically reachable, but it offers no sufficient mitigation against the external reputation findings; infrastructure integrity should therefore be treated as a limited technical observation, not as evidence of legitimacy.
- The resolved server IP is 92.113.16.109, registered in the UA network location.
- Infrastructure analysis identified 4 unique IP addresses, 0 edge IP addresses, and 4 likely origin IP addresses.
- No CDN was detected in the observed hosting path.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate disposition is to avoid credentials, payment details, financial information, and document submission until the external reputation issue and the operator’s independent business identity have been satisfactorily resolved.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-22 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 ckingtea.com.
- The request stayed on ckingtea.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-16. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-06-10. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:45:384b:3420:2cd0:da72:712f |
| Name servers | NS1.DNS-PARKING.COM, NS2.DNS-PARKING.COM |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-17 |
| Domain age | 11.60 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-16 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-06-10 |
| Archive snapshots | 236 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ckingtea.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.