Verdict
internationaltefltraininginstitute.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 | Website for the International TEFL Training Institute offering accredited TEFL/TESOL courses (online and in-class) with global location listings, contact details, course descriptions, and student resources. Appears to be an established education provider rather than a financial or high-risk service. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2018Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 | 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.
The website is an education and training platform operated under the International TEFL Training Institute (iTTi) presentation. It offers online and in-class TEFL/TESOL certification courses, specialized teaching programs, location-specific training information, accreditation-related material, student resources, and enrollment contact facilities, with revenue apparently derived from course fees and related training materials.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site presents a confirmed external reputation contradiction that materially outweighs its otherwise credible educational content. Independent reputation checks recorded malicious and suspicious detections, including a confirmed blacklist status from multiple external sources. This conflicts with the homepage’s professional course catalog, contact details, social-media links, and absence of visible phishing or credential-capture forms. The site’s apparent education model therefore does not neutralize the risk associated with the external detections; the real-world operator is only likely, not independently verified. No separate identity contradiction or brand-impersonation finding was observed.
- External reputation checks recorded 6 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection; the domain was confirmed on blacklist sources.
- The homepage identifies the service as an International TEFL Training Institute offering TEFL/TESOL certification, while the contact and course pages provide a conventional education-provider structure.
- Domain registration records show registration on 2018-02-24 and an age of 8.49 years; historical records show coverage from 2018-08-08 through 2026-07-09 across 9 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site advertises accreditation-related affiliations and includes a course designation stating “Ofqual Regulated,” but the available evidence does not independently verify the relevant awarding authority, licensing position, or a registration number. This is a regulatory and disclosure verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of misconduct. The site’s stated business is educational course delivery, not a financial or investment service. A separate broker-reputation dataset recorded no match, which is only contextual and does not establish regulatory standing.
- The accreditation page and course listings present accreditation and “Ofqual Regulated” claims without an independently verified license number or regulator record.
- The homepage and course pages list 120-hour, 220-hour, and 500-hour TEFL/TESOL offerings, together with in-class and online delivery options.
- The site is hosted on AS400754, GoDaddy.com, LLC, US; its TLS certificate is DV-validated, issued by GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1, and valid to 2026-09-20T21:47:55+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any enrollment, payment, or submission of personal information, the claimed accreditation and “Ofqual Regulated” status should be checked directly with the named awarding or regulatory body using independently sourced contact details. The legal, policies, accreditation, and contact pages should be reviewed for the contracting entity, refund terms, certificate issuer, course-delivery obligations, and dispute process. Any proposed payment should use a method with effective chargeback or buyer-protection mechanisms, and contact channels should be confirmed through an independent, offline route.
- The accreditation page is the appropriate source for validating the claimed affiliation and certificate authority.
- The policies and terms pages should be checked for the legal contracting party, refunds, cancellations, and dispute provisions.
- The contact page provides the organization’s stated enrollment and support channels for comparison with independently obtained institutional records.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critically untrustworthy for sensitive interaction. Although the website has a coherent educational presentation and an established registration history, the confirmed external blacklist and malicious-detection signals create a decisive contradiction that supports only passive, non-sensitive viewing until independently resolved.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to one likely origin IP, with no CDN detected and no edge-IP layer identified. This provides limited infrastructure separation or protective buffering; transport encryption is present, but a domain-validated certificate and ordinary hosting controls do not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Interaction should remain limited to passive review, with no account login, credential submission, payment, or transfer of sensitive personal information unless the external reputation issue and the institution’s accreditation and operating identity have been independently cleared.
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, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - 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
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - The page rewrote itself after it was interacted with, so what a visitor first sees is not what they end up on.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DIFF_AFTER_INTERACTION - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS - 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 | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 40% |
- Trusted social count=5
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 internationaltefltraininginstitute.com.
- The request stayed on internationaltefltraininginstitute.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by domaincontrol.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-02-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-08. Clear
- It is hosted on GO-DADDY-COM-LLC, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | GO-DADDY-COM-LLC - GoDaddy.com, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 107.180.25.102 |
| Name servers | NS53.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS54.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| SSL issuer | GoDaddy TLS Intermediate CA DV - R1v1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 8.49 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-02-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2018-08-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about internationaltefltraininginstitute.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.