Verdict
creditinfo.co.tz 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 | Corporate homepage for Creditinfo Tanzania, a credit-reference bureau stating that it has operated under a Bank of Tanzania license since 2013. It promotes consumer credit-report services and business products covering credit data, scoring, collections, monitoring, eKYC, fraud prevention, and decision analytics, with visible contact details, policies, case studies, and company news. |
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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 | 13 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013748 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2013.
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
Full analysis
Overview
Creditinfo Tanzania is the corporate website of a credit-reference bureau serving individuals, lenders, and other businesses through consumer credit reports, dispute and clearance services, credit scoring, collections support, monitoring, eKYC, fraud prevention, and decision analytics; its apparent business model is based on service, report, licensing, or subscription fees rather than investment solicitation.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, phishing indicators, brand impersonation, or other scam signals were observed. The domain has a long-established history, and archived content consistently relates to credit-information and consumer-dispute services, with no evidence of repurposing. External threat-intelligence checks were clean, while observed browser activity showed no credential-harvesting forms, cloaking, wallet-draining behavior, clipboard manipulation, or suspicious inline scripts.
- Domain-registration records show registration on 28 November 2012, making the domain approximately 13.68 years old; the registrar is REG-TZNIC.
- The web archive contains 748 snapshots spanning 7 July 2013 to 21 May 2026, representing 14 years of tracked history and a consistent credit-information-services purpose.
- The homepage presents Creditinfo Tanzania as a credit-reference and decision-analytics business; automated page inspection found no login form, hidden form, sensitive external form, or suspected brand impersonation.
- External reputation telemetry recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, no safe-browsing alert, and no confirmed threat-list hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage states that Creditinfo Tanzania has operated under a Bank of Tanzania licence since 2013 and presents a coherent institutional identity supported by team, policy, consumer-rights, contact, case-study, and company-news content. The supplied evidence does not establish an independently verified licence number or registry entry, so the regulatory claim should be treated as a clear on-site representation rather than an independently confirmed legal determination. No adverse broker-reputation match was identified.
- The homepage expressly describes the organization as a Bank of Tanzania-licensed credit-reference bureau operating since 2013.
- The site navigation exposes About Us, Team, Consumer Rights, Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, Policies, and Internal Reporting System pages.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a WE1-issued domain-validated TLS certificate, valid until 21 September 2026.
- The homepage contains no investment-return, cryptocurrency, or deposit-solicitation proposition.
What to Verify Next
Institutional counterparties conducting formal onboarding should match the contracting entity and authorized signatories against current corporate records, confirm the claimed authorization directly with the relevant regulator, and validate official contact channels through an independently sourced route. These are standard due-diligence controls for a credit-data provider handling identity and financial information, not indicators that the website is illegitimate.
- The site offers dispute handling, clearance certificates, consumer reports, and educational resources to individuals, making confirmation of applicable consumer-redress procedures relevant.
- Business-facing services include credit-bureau solutions, international reports, monitoring, scoring, eKYC, and decision engines, supporting review of data-processing terms and access controls during procurement.
- The site publishes visible contact details and dedicated contact and FAQ pages, providing reference points for independent channel confirmation.
Summary Verdict
The website is assessed as legitimate, established, and trustworthy, with strong convergence among its institutional presentation, longstanding and consistent provenance, clean external reputation, and technically sound operation. No contradictory evidence undermines its stated identity or apparent business purpose.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF, and the observed address was a Cloudflare edge server rather than the origin host. This reduces direct infrastructure exposure and provides a conventional protective layer, although such protection is a mitigating security control rather than independent proof of legitimacy.
- The site is served from AS13335 (Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- The observed edge address was 162.159.134.42; no origin-server candidate was exposed during the assessment.
Closing Assessment
Normal interaction, including account login, routine account activity, and standard use of the website’s services, is appropriate, with ordinary institutional due diligence applied where a formal commercial relationship or regulated data exchange is contemplated.
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 creditinfo.co.tz.
- The request stayed on creditinfo.co.tz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under REG-TZNIC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-07.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-27. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-07-07. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | REG-TZNIC |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.159.134.42 |
| Name servers | ns-1081.awsdns-07.org, ns-1801.awsdns-33.co.uk, ns-383.awsdns-47.com, ns-890.awsdns-47.net |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-21 |
| Domain age | 13.7 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-27 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-07-07 |
| Archive snapshots | 748 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 13 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about creditinfo.co.tz 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.