Verdict
ecopeandson.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 | Cope Memorials is a fifth-generation family-run stonemasonry business offering headstones and memorial services in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The site contains product collections with prices, location details, contact information (phone/email), customer testimonials, and a newsletter/brochure request form. |
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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 | 23 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2003Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2003.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Cope Memorials is a local stonemasonry business serving Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. Its website presents headstones, memorial services, product collections, location information, customer reviews, and enquiry-based purchasing, with the stated purpose of arranging memorial products, inscriptions, installations, appointments, and brochure requests for bereaved families.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The website’s local-business presentation is consistent with its stated memorial-services model, and the available page analysis found no phishing, brand-impersonation, hidden-form, wallet-connection, or cryptocurrency indicators. External reputation checks recorded no malicious or suspicious detections, while the site’s content and behaviour showed low deception indicators. The evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, although the real-world operator identity remains independently unverified.
- The homepage presents a local memorials and headstones business with product collections, service locations, customer reviews, and enquiry forms.
- The homepage analysis found no login form, hidden forms, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, cloaking, or suspicious inline scripts.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no external blacklist match.
- Registration continuity dates to 2003; the domain is 22.78 years old, with 192 archive snapshots spanning 2003–2026 across 24 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent commercial activity is ordinary local memorial-product and installation work rather than a service for which a regulated financial licence is evidenced. No regulated licence claim or licence number is established in the supplied material, so regulatory status cannot be inferred from the website alone. The site identifies itself through its family-business and service-location presentation, but that on-site identity is not independently connected to a verified legal operator. This is a transparency and verification consideration, not an identity contradiction or evidence of a scam. No broker-related third-party match was identified.
- The homepage title identifies “Headstones In Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire - Cope Memorials.”
- The website’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE1, valid to 2026-11-17.
- The site is served from AS14061, operated by DigitalOcean, LLC, US.
- The contact and location content provides service-area information and customer-contact routes, while no regulated licence number is evidenced.
What to Verify Next
Before a credential or payment interaction, an interested party should independently confirm the business identity, physical service details, quotation terms, cancellation or return arrangements, and available payment protections. Any licensing or registration expectation arising from a specific service or payment arrangement should be checked with the relevant official registry rather than inferred from the website. Contact channels should also be confirmed through an independently sourced route before sensitive information is exchanged.
- The locations and contact pages provide the material needed for an independent business-identity cross-check.
- The collections and pricing pages provide a basis for comparing quotations and confirming the agreed product and installation scope.
- The brochure-request and contact forms indicate the principal enquiry routes available on the site.
- The supplied analysis found two ordinary contact, newsletter, and brochure-request form functions with no untrusted destination.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate local business. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-conflict indicators were observed; the remaining uncertainty concerns independent confirmation of the real-world operator rather than evidence of malicious conduct.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by CDN/WAF infrastructure, which mitigates direct exposure of the underlying service. The observed edge address was 167.71.137.123 on AS14061, operated by DigitalOcean, LLC; no origin server candidate was observable in this analysis. This protective architecture is a mitigating technical signal, not proof of business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing and enquiry activity is proportionate to the assessed posture, while independent merchant-identity, transaction-term, and payment-protection checks should be completed before credentials or payment details are provided.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 ecopeandson.co.uk.
- The request stayed on ecopeandson.co.uk. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-11-08. Clear
- It is hosted on DIGITALOCEAN-ASN, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 167.71.137.123 |
| Name servers | Not available |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-17 |
| Domain age | 22.78 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2003-11-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 ecopeandson.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.