Verdict
encontrarte.com.br 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 | Website for EncontrArte, a cultural organization (founded 2002) in Nova Iguaçu, Brazil, describing programs, institutional recognition and contact details. |
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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 YE2 | 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
EncontrArte is a Brazilian cultural non-profit website presenting the organization’s mission, history, institutional recognition, and programs, including theatre, audiovisual training, exhibitions, and cultural citizenship initiatives, with an apparent purpose of supporting public cultural projects, partnerships, and community participation.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents an informational organizational profile rather than a deposit, investment, or financial-service proposition, and the available page and behavior evidence shows no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, payment solicitation, cloaking, or suspicious external activity. The site’s apparent cultural-organization model is consistent across its stated mission and project descriptions, while evaluated reputation signals contain no malicious or suspicious findings and no third-party broker association was identified. The real-world operator remains independently unverified, so the absence of contradictions supports apparent legitimacy rather than proving identity.
- The homepage describes EncontrArte as a cultural organization founded in 2002 and identifies theatre, audiovisual training, exhibitions, and cultural citizenship as its activities.
- Browser testing recorded two successful runs, a 100% HTTP 200 ratio, zero external XHR/fetch activity, zero hidden forms, and zero wallet-provider or wallet-drainer activity.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2003-06-18 and an age of 23.19 years.
- Historical records show 128 archive snapshots spanning 2003–2026, tracked across 24 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s identity pages present EncontrArte as an organization based in Nova Iguaçu, Brazil, and refer to institutional recognition including Pontão de Cultura – Ministério da Cultura. The available content is consistent with a cultural non-profit rather than a regulated financial provider. No applicable financial licence or registration number is presented in the supplied site content; this is a transparency item for confirmation, not evidence of scam activity. The site does not independently establish the legal connection between the published organization and a verified real-world operator.
- The About content identifies the organization as founded in 2002, based in Nova Iguaçu, and active across the Baixada Fluminense.
- The homepage’s recognition section cites Pontão de Cultura – Ministério da Cultura.
- The site is hosted on AS47583, AS-HOSTINGER – Hostinger International Limited, CY.
- Transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YE2, valid to 2026-11-15T21:57:27+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent party should confirm the organization’s legal identity and any applicable Brazilian registration or public-funding status through authoritative public records and, where relevant, the Ministry of Culture’s own channels. The transparency materials should be reviewed for governance, funding, donation, and project-accountability information. Contact details and the linked social presence should be corroborated through an independent route rather than relying solely on information reached through the website.
- The navigation exposes dedicated “Sobre,” “Transparência,” and “Contato” sections.
- The contact area provides an organizational email address, telephone/social contact reference, and an Instagram presence identified as @encontrarteon.
- The site contains no sensitive submission form, payment form, or account-creation workflow in the observed page capture.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence supports an established, apparently legitimate website with a high-trust and low-risk posture. Its content, technical behavior, and historical continuity are mutually consistent with a genuine cultural organization, although the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to four apparent origin IPs, with no detected CDN or edge-IP layer and no WAF identified in the supplied infrastructure observations. This direct-hosting posture does not itself indicate abuse; the stable resolution and mainstream Hostinger hosting arrangement provide useful infrastructure context but are not proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary browsing is proportionate, while credential or payment use should follow independent confirmation of the organization, applicable terms, and available payment protections.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 | 55/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 60% |
- 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 encontrarte.com.br.
- The request stayed on encontrarte.com.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dns-parking.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-06-18. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2003-08-03. Clear
- It is hosted on AS-HOSTINGER, from a server in UA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AS-HOSTINGER - Hostinger International Limited, CY |
| Country | UA |
| Server IP | 2a02:4780:45:adc5:438c:2f61:a11:2a99 |
| Name servers | pixel.dns-parking.com, byte.dns-parking.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-15 |
| Domain age | 23.19 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-06-18 |
| Archive first seen | 2003-08-03 |
| 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 encontrarte.com.br 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.