Verdict
hungrylion.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 | Hungry Lion restaurant menu and navigation page featuring chicken meals, family meals, buckets, winglets, burgers, extras, desserts, drinks, store discovery, delivery partners, company information, careers, contact details, and social-media links. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 29 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2001180 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2001.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the established online presence of Hungry Lion, a restaurant business presenting chicken meals, family meals, buckets, winglets, burgers, sides, desserts, and drinks, while supporting menu discovery, store location, delivery access, company information, and recruitment.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No identity contradictions, phishing indicators, brand impersonation, or confirmed malicious reputation signals were observed. The site’s consistent Hungry Lion branding, long domain tenure, extensive archival record, stable restaurant-focused content, and benign tested behavior collectively support a legitimate identity. The reviewed page contained no login form, hidden form, deceptive redirection, cloaking, clipboard manipulation, or suspicious script behavior.
- The domain registration record identifies I.B.I as the organization and Marcaria.com as registrar; registered 17 November 1997 (~28.72 years old), with expiry on 17 November 2026.
- The web archive contains 180 snapshots spanning 20 July 2001–17 May 2026 (26 years tracked), with no suspicious repurposing or semantic drift established.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections, no phishing finding, no confirmed threat-list match, and no abuse reports.
- The homepage presented consistent Hungry Lion restaurant branding and generated no content-level red flags.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site represents a conventional restaurant and retail-food operation rather than a regulated financial or investment service; no financial-return, cryptocurrency, brokerage, or licensing claims were identified. Its navigation provides About, Africa, Legal, Contact, employment, store, and delivery-partner pathways, giving visitors normal routes to corporate and operational information. The supplied evidence does not establish the contents of the linked legal materials, but it also presents no conflicting legal-entity names or governance concerns.
- The homepage navigation includes dedicated About, Legal, Contact, careers, store-finder, and delivery-partner destinations.
- The reviewed menu page made no investment, financial-return, cryptocurrency, or regulatory-status claim.
- The site is served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET – Cloudflare, Inc., US).
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV TLS certificate issued by WE1, valid to 21 September 2026.
What to Verify Next
Routine due diligence may confirm that store locations and delivery options are selected through the site’s published channels, that any employment application follows the official careers pathway, and that material terms are reviewed on the Legal page before an order or application is submitted. Independent confirmation is proportionate only where a visitor encounters an unfamiliar promotion or third-party delivery route.
- The homepage provides a dedicated store finder and a downloadable-menu function.
- Delivery partners are presented as a distinct navigation category rather than an undisclosed transaction route.
- Recruitment is separated into general-worker and headquarters/store-management pathways.
- The reviewed page contained 0 forms, no sensitive-data form, and no untrusted form destination.
Summary Verdict
The website is legitimate, established, and trustworthy, with strong convergence across identity, provenance, reputation, page content, and observed behavior. No contradictory risk signals were found, and normal interaction—including account login and standard use where offered—is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection fronts the website, and all four observed addresses were edge servers rather than exposed origin infrastructure. This reduces direct origin exposure and provides a meaningful security mitigation, although protective infrastructure is not independently proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users may engage with the website normally, using its published navigation and standard transaction pathways with ordinary online-security hygiene.
Written analysis generated 2026-07-31 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 hungrylion.co.za.
- The request stayed on hungrylion.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Marcaria.com. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-11-17. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-07-20. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Marcaria.com |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3035::6815:2841 |
| Name servers | guss.ns.cloudflare.com, sima.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-21 |
| Domain age | 28.7 years |
| Domain expiry | 2026-11-17 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-07-20 |
| Archive snapshots | 180 |
| 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 hungrylion.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.