Verdict
grupo-ichiban.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Commercial website for Grupo Ichiban selling therapeutic massage chairs with product pages, contact info, social links, warranty and maintenance services. No login/payment forms visible on the page capture. |
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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 | 5 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 9.4 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2018.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
Grupo Ichiban is a Spanish-language commercial retail website presenting therapeutic massage chairs, related maintenance and delivery services, customer-contact channels, and a proprietary collection system for prospective residential, institutional, corporate, and commercial customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity inconsistency, phishing form, login mechanism, or brand-impersonation pattern was observed in the captured site content. However, external threat intelligence recorded malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist hit from multiple sources, including Fortinet; under the available evidence, this is a material contradiction that overrides the otherwise benign appearance of the retail pages. The site’s visible content may be genuine in form, but the external reputation conflict makes sensitive interaction inappropriate pending independent resolution.
- External screening recorded 5 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection; Fortinet was among the flagged vendors, and blacklist status was confirmed by 2 sources.
- The homepage capture contains no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet connection, or payment form.
- The domain was registered on 2017-04-03 and is 9.39 years old.
- Web-archive records span 2018-08-07 through 2022-10-08, covering 5 years with sparse archival coverage; this does not establish a recent registration or a repurposed legacy domain.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The available pages describe a retail business under the Grupo Ichiban name, offering the Elegant, Dream Plus, and Deluxe massage-chair lines, maintenance and delivery services, and an Ichiban/Torukawa Relax “Monedero” collection system. No license claim, license number, or clearly presented legal-entity registration detail is shown in the supplied content; because the apparent business model is retail rather than an identified regulated financial service, this remains a transparency and verification matter rather than independent proof of misconduct. The site’s real-world operator is only apparently connected to the stated brand, not independently verified. The valid transport certificate and established domain registration are positive technical signals, but they do not resolve the external blacklist contradiction.
- The homepage and product pages identify Grupo Ichiban and describe massage-chair products, after-sales services, and the “Monedero” system.
- No license authority or license number is presented in the available business and service content.
- The site is hosted on AS22612 (NAMECHEAP-NET — Namecheap, Inc., US).
- TLS uses a DV certificate issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, valid through 2026-10-01.
What to Verify Next
An independent business-registry check should confirm the legal entity trading as Grupo Ichiban and its authority to sell the advertised products and operate the collection arrangement. Before any purchase or payment, the warranty, maintenance, delivery, refund, and collection terms should be obtained in writing and matched to the verified entity; official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route rather than relying solely on the website.
- The contact and service pages provide the stated channels for sales, delivery, warranty, and maintenance enquiries.
- The product and service pages describe a collection mechanism whose contractual terms should be reconciled with the verified seller.
- The available site capture shows no sensitive form, so any later request for credentials or payment should be treated as a separate interaction requiring validation.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical trust risk because confirmed external blacklist and malicious-detection signals create a decisive contradiction that the site’s credible retail presentation and normal technical operation cannot offset. The website should not be treated as sufficiently trusted for sensitive interaction, and its apparent brand identity remains unproven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single hosting address with no CDN or WAF layer identified in the supplied infrastructure facts. Namecheap hosting and valid Sectigo-issued TLS provide basic operational and transport protections, but these are mitigating infrastructure characteristics only and do not establish legitimacy or counter the external reputation findings.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 1 unique IP, with 0 edge IPs and 1 likely origin IP; no CDN was detected.
- Hosting infrastructure is located in the United States and uses the Namecheap network identified above.
Closing Assessment
Pending independent business and transaction-term validation, activity should remain limited to passive review; credentials should not be submitted and financial transactions should not be initiated through the site.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 39% |
- 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 grupo-ichiban.com.
- The request stayed on grupo-ichiban.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Wild West Domains, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by namecheaphosting.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-03. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-07. Clear
- It is hosted on NAMECHEAP-NET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Wild West Domains, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | NAMECHEAP-NET - Namecheap, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 104.219.248.117 |
| Name servers | DNS1.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM, DNS2.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-01 |
| Domain age | 9.39 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-03 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-07 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 5 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about grupo-ichiban.com 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.