Verdict
gumtree.co.za 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 | Gumtree South Africa homepage for classifieds listing: shows categories, live ads (cars, property, jobs, furniture, electronics), promotional banners, and links to sign up/log in and post ads. Marketplace facilitates peer-to-peer listings and offers promoted listing/payment features. |
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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 | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 | Noted |
The page as captured
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.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Gumtree South Africa is an established classifieds marketplace presenting cars, property, jobs, furniture, electronics, services, live advertisements, account features, and options to post or promote listings; its apparent business model is to facilitate peer-to-peer buying and selling while monetising advertising, promoted placement, and related transaction services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the reviewed content contains no phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or malicious-reputation finding. The homepage’s marketplace presentation is internally consistent with its stated purpose, and its login and sign-up functions do not redirect to an untrusted destination. Peer-to-peer listings and payment-related features create ordinary counterparty and transaction risks because individual sellers are not automatically validated by the platform, but that commercial exposure is distinct from evidence that the website itself is fraudulent. Automated interaction testing observed hidden forms and inline script activity, yet no external password forms, wallet-drainer behavior, clipboard hijacking, or cloaking were detected; these observations are therefore treated as implementation complexity rather than a confirmed deception signal.
- The homepage presents classified categories including cars, property, jobs, electronics, home and garden, and services, with live advertisements and standard account functions.
- The homepage states that users can post free advertisements and promotes paid placement and online purchase-protection features.
- The domain was registered on 2003-05-12 and is approximately 23.28 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate marketplace, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified. The reviewed page content does not clearly present a licensing or registration number; this is a transparency and regulatory-verification point rather than evidence of a scam, particularly because the site operates as a classifieds platform rather than presenting itself as a regulated financial institution. The clean external reputation, long-established registration, reputable registrar, substantial traffic footprint, and valid transport encryption provide converging support for an established site. Any payment-protection or transaction-facilitation service should nevertheless be assessed according to the legal entity actually providing it.
- The domain registrar is xneelo (Pty) Ltd; registration is recorded from 2003-05-12 to 2027-05-12.
- The site is served from AS8075, Microsoft Corporation, US.
- TLS is provided by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 using DV validation and is valid until 2026-12-10.
- The site is ranked 17205 globally and is within the top 1,000,000 websites.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the merchant or service-provider identity shown in the relevant transaction flow, review the applicable terms, privacy, returns, dispute, and payment-protection provisions, and ensure that any protection promise applies to the specific listing and payment method. Where a payment or escrow function is material, confirm the responsible provider and any applicable licensing or registration through the relevant official registry. Official support and contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before a disputed transaction is escalated.
- The homepage links to Terms & Conditions, Privacy Notice, and Cookie Policy.
- The homepage provides account, orders, purchases, wallet, chats, and support functions.
- The reviewed content includes promotional statements concerning online payment protection and nationwide delivery.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with the evidence consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and no observed contradiction indicating scam or impersonation activity. The classification supports ordinary marketplace interaction, while the absence of independent operator verification means that site legitimacy should not be treated as proof of a particular real-world corporate identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site benefits from Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection, and the observed address was a CDN edge address rather than an identified origin server. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying hosting environment and is a mitigating infrastructure characteristic, not independent proof of legitimacy.
- Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection was observed; edge address 13.107.246.56 was associated with AS8075, and no origin candidate was identified.
- The resolved hosting provider is MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing and standard marketplace use are proportionate to the assessed posture; credentials or payments should follow ordinary independent checks of the counterparty, transaction terms, and available payment protections.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 gumtree.co.za.
- The request stayed on gumtree.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under xneelo (Pty) Ltd. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-12. Noted
- It is hosted on MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | xneelo (Pty) Ltd |
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| Hosting | MICROSOFT-CORP-MSN-AS-BLOCK - Microsoft Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2620:1ec:bdf::53 |
| Name servers | donna.ns.cloudflare.com, pranab.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-10 |
| Domain age | 23.28 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-12 |
| 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 gumtree.co.za 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.