Verdict
flashscore.com.gh 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 | Flashscore regional site offering live sports scores, fixtures, results, league standings, match statistics, odds comparison and sports news. Heavily ad- and partner-driven with a cookie/consent banner and links to social profiles and mobile apps. |
|---|
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 | 7.4 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2024197 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2024.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Flashscore.com.gh is a regional sports-information website presenting live football scores, fixtures, results, league standings, match statistics, odds comparison, sports news, mobile applications, and links to social-media profiles. Its apparent business model is an established, ad- and partner-supported content service that also promotes bookmaker affiliates and third-party advertising.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site’s sports-content presentation is internally coherent, the detected page-level findings contain no phishing, malware, brand-impersonation, or other fraud indicators, and the homepage did not present a sensitive submission form. The available evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate website rather than a scam or impersonation operation, while independently verified attribution to a real-world operator remains limited. No suspicious contact-email anomaly was identified in the supplied evidence.
- The homepage provides live scores, fixtures, results, standings, match statistics, and sports news under the Flashscore.com.gh identity, with no reported red flags.
- The homepage analysis recorded no login form, hidden form, password-external form, wallet activity, or cloaking.
- The domain was registered on 2019-03-09 and is approximately 7.43 years old.
- Historical records contain 197 snapshots spanning 2024–2026, covering 3 years, with no detected repurposing or semantic drift.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website operates primarily as an informational sports service rather than presenting itself as a regulated financial entity. Its disclosed commercial model involves advertising, third-party advertising partners, bookmaker affiliate links, and mobile-app promotion; this creates ordinary third-party advertising, tracking, and partner-diligence considerations but does not itself indicate fraud. The supplied page material identifies privacy and terms pages, but no license or registration number is claimed, and the available disclosure state is unclear. That is a transparency item for independent confirmation, not evidence of a scam. No separate broker reputation match was identified in the supplied third-party context.
- The homepage identifies the service as live sports scores and sports news, with odds comparison and bookmaker-partner activity.
- The site exposes `/privacy` and `/terms` links in its internal navigation.
- The site’s hosting resolves through AS396982, Google Cloud Platform—Google LLC, United States.
- The transport certificate is Domain Validated, issued by YR1, and valid until 2026-09-15.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an institution should independently confirm the official merchant or operator identity through the site’s published legal materials and an independently sourced corporate or service contact. The terms and privacy pages should be reviewed for the contracting entity, governing law, data-sharing practices, advertising partners, and mobile-app ownership. Any bookmaker or other commercial partner should be assessed separately, including its applicable licensing, payment protections, and consumer-remedy arrangements. Official mobile applications should be obtained only through the relevant recognized app marketplace and checked against the site’s own published references.
- The site links to terms, privacy, mobile, and news sections from its internal navigation.
- The homepage includes a cookie or consent banner and advertising placements.
- The site links to Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok profiles, providing channels for independent cross-checking of official presence.
- The homepage analysis identified one analytics service and one advertising network.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website with a low-risk informational profile and no observed scam or impersonation contradictions. The high-trust assessment is supported by coherent site content, sustained domain and historical presence, clean technical and reputation indicators, and stable operation; however, the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is hosted directly on Google Cloud Platform without a detected CDN or WAF layer, and the infrastructure presents a single resolved IP consistent with a likely origin endpoint. Google Cloud hosting and the identified transport encryption provide useful technical stability and confidentiality, but neither hosting choice nor TLS validation independently establishes operator legitimacy.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 1 unique IP, 0 edge IPs, and 1 likely origin IP.
- The resolved infrastructure is registered through ARIN in the United States.
- The TLS certificate uses Domain Validation and issuer YR1, with validity ending 2026-09-15.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; credential or payment activity should remain subject to the ordinary independent identity, terms, and payment-protection checks applicable to any online service.
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 | 76/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 38% |
- Trusted social count=2
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 flashscore.com.gh.
- The request stayed on flashscore.com.gh. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Ghana Dot Com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by edrive-hosting.cz, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-09. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2024-01-07. Clear
- It is hosted on GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Ghana Dot Com |
|---|---|
| Hosting | GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 34.110.253.83 |
| Name servers | ns1.edrive-hosting.cz, ns2.edrive-hosting.cz, ns3.edrive.cz |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-15 |
| Domain age | 7.43 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-09 |
| Archive first seen | 2024-01-07 |
| Archive snapshots | 197 |
| 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 flashscore.com.gh 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.