Verdict
hfct.in is moderately trusted.
Most signals looked ordinary, and some evidence was missing. Read the checks below before you pay or hand over personal details.
| What this site appears to be | Official site for Helping Friends Charitable Trust (Chennai). Provides registration numbers, program descriptions, impact stats, upcoming events, volunteer links, contact details, and explicit donation instructions (bank accounts and UPI ID). No login or investment solicitations; primarily informational and donation-focused. |
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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 | 4.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2022Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Safe for Read-Only.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2022.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Helping Friends Charitable Trust is a Chennai-based charitable organisation website presenting community initiatives in education, health, skill development, and social welfare, with information for donors and volunteers. Its apparent operating model is a local non-profit trust funded through donations and CSR support rather than commercial sales, investment activity, or account-based services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The site presents a consistent charitable identity across its homepage, About, Programs, Gallery, Contact, and Support pages, and the content is specific to community activities rather than using investment, login, or urgent-payment tactics. Technical interaction testing found no hidden forms, password collection, wallet connection, clipboard manipulation, suspicious scripts, or external data-posting activity. A lookalike similarity heuristic associated the domain with “t.me,” but the site’s actual content does not impersonate that service or another identifiable brand; this remains a limited automated similarity signal rather than a confirmed identity conflict.
- The homepage identifies Helping Friends Charitable Trust and describes education, health, skill development, and social-welfare work in Arumbakkam, Chennai.
- The Contact and Support pages provide donation instructions and a contact form without a login or sensitive-data form.
- The site’s hosting domain was registered on 2021-11-28 and is approximately 4.73 years old.
- Historical records show 200 archive snapshots from 2022-01-19 through 2025-03-18, covering 4 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About and homepage content provides identifiable charitable-status claims, including registration number 204/IV/2020, 12A and 80G registration claims, CSR Form 1 certification, and NITI Aayog unique ID TN/2022/0330470. These are meaningful on-site disclosures, but the available evidence does not independently verify their current validity or connect them conclusively to the real-world operator. The site’s legal and governance position should therefore be treated as apparently documented rather than independently established. A third-party broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is a contextual positive signal but not a regulatory or legal determination.
- The homepage displays “Reg No: 204/IV/2020,” “12A & 80G Registered,” and “CSR Form 1 Certified.”
- The About page displays NITI Aayog unique ID TN/2022/0330470 and describes the trust’s founding and mission.
- The site is hosted on AS31898, identified as ORACLE-BMC-31898 — Oracle Corporation, US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR1 at DV validation level and is valid until 2026-11-03T15:28:33+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before a material donation, the organisation’s registration, tax-benefit status, CSR eligibility, and current bank or UPI beneficiary details should be confirmed through the relevant Indian government or tax registries and an independently obtained contact route. Donors should also confirm that an official receipt is issued and that any claimed 80G benefit is applicable to the specific contribution. Routine informational browsing and volunteer enquiries present a lower decision consequence than transferring funds.
- The About page is the relevant source for checking the organisation’s stated registration and identification details.
- The Support page is the relevant source for comparing the displayed payment instructions against independently confirmed beneficiary information.
- The Contact page provides the site’s stated communication route for confirming donation receipts and programme details.
Summary Verdict
The website has a moderate-trust posture and appears consistent with a genuine local charitable organisation, with no observed phishing, blacklist, impersonation, or other active threat contradiction. Its real-world operator identity and charitable-status claims are likely but not independently verified, so legitimacy should be regarded as evidence-consistent rather than proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to Oracle Corporation infrastructure in the United States under AS31898, with no CDN detected and one likely origin-IP candidate. Oracle hosting and the valid TLS deployment provide baseline technical assurance, but infrastructure controls alone do not establish the identity or regulatory status of the organisation.
Closing Assessment
The site is suitable for ordinary informational use, while material donations should proceed only after the organisation’s registration and payment details have been independently confirmed.
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 | LIKELY |
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| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- 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 hfct.in.
- The request stayed on hfct.in. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Endurance International Group India Private Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by bluehost.in, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-28. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2022-01-19. Clear
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Endurance International Group India Private Limited |
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| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 162.214.80.46 |
| Name servers | ns2.bluehost.in, ns1.bluehost.in |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-03 |
| Domain age | 4.73 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-28 |
| Archive first seen | 2022-01-19 |
| 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 hfct.in 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.