Verdict
crowdfunder.co.uk 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 | Official-looking Crowdfunder UK page focused on cookie and privacy details with lists of cookies and third-party providers, references to payment processors (Stripe) and many analytics/marketing integrations. Appears to be an operational crowdfunding/fundraising platform. |
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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 | 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 | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| 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).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Crowdfunder.co.uk presents an operational UK crowdfunding and fundraising platform where individuals and organisations can create campaigns and collect payments, with platform revenue apparently derived from campaign and payment-processing fees.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed across the reviewed site content and external reputation signals. The available evidence does not indicate phishing, brand impersonation, malicious activity, or confirmed blacklisting. The fundraising and payment-collection model is clearly presented rather than disguised, and the reviewed page contains no suspicious forms or red-flag content. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate service, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage is identified as “Crowdfunder.co.uk | UK’s No.1 Fundraising & Crowdfunding platform” and is classified as a fundraising and crowdfunding platform with no detected brand-impersonation indicator.
- Independent reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, no malicious safe-browsing result, and zero abuse reports; the domain is registered through Gandi on 2010-09-17 and is approximately 15.91 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent business model involves hosting fundraising campaigns for individuals and organisations and processing payments through providers such as Stripe. The reviewed privacy and cookie material provides substantial operational detail, including payment and analytics integrations, but does not present a licensing authority or licence number in the supplied content. That is a regulatory-transparency item for confirmation, not evidence of deception. The identity linkage is supported by the site’s established presentation and associated social presence, but remains likely rather than independently verified.
- The reviewed privacy and cookie page describes payment processing through Stripe and identifies third-party services including Cloudflare, Google, Hotjar, Segment, VWO, HubSpot, and Intercom.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by WE1, valid through 2026-10-22.
- The supplied legal and privacy material does not display a licensing authority or licence number.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an organisation should independently confirm the legal entity operating the platform and determine whether any registration or regulatory status applies to the specific fundraising activity. Campaign-specific checks should include the organiser’s identity, stated use of funds, refund or cancellation terms, and the payment protections available through the checkout process. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route.
- The homepage presents two forms, including a payment-checkout integration hint, while no sensitive form or untrusted submission destination was detected.
- The cookie and privacy material identifies distinct necessary, functional, statistics, and marketing processing categories, providing a basis for reviewing data-use and consent expectations before account activity.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No contradictory indicators were identified, while operator identity assurance remains below independently verified status.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN and WAF infrastructure. All observed addresses were Cloudflare edge addresses, with no origin-server address identified in the supplied infrastructure analysis; this reduces direct exposure of the hosting environment but is a mitigating control rather than proof of legitimacy.
- Served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET — Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- Observed edge addresses were 104.20.17.123, 172.66.153.227, 2606:4700:10::6814:117b, and 2606:4700:10::ac42:99e3; likely origin IP count was 0.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and ordinary platform use are proportionate to the available evidence, with independent merchant-identity, campaign, refund, and payment-protection checks completed before credentials or funds are committed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Trusted social count=3
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 crowdfunder.co.uk.
- The request stayed on crowdfunder.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Gandi. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by com., across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-09-17. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Gandi |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:10::6814:117b |
| Name servers | lucy.ns.cloudflare.com., mack.ns.cloudflare.com. |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 15.91 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-09-17 |
| 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 crowdfunder.co.uk 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.