--- title: "Is joaquimpsantos.pt a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "joaquimpsantos.pt" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is joaquimpsantos.pt a Scam? Trust Score 0/100" trust_score: 0 classification_confidence: 75 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/joaquimpsantos.pt assessed: 2026-08-21 --- # Is joaquimpsantos.pt a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 0/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 0/100.** joaquimpsantos.pt shows high-risk / scam indicators. This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site. Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk Assessed 2026-08-21 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | What this site appears to be | Maintenance landing page for photographer Joaquim Pedro Santos. Provides brief bio, links to Behance, Instagram, LinkedIn, contact email, and a CV download. No transactions or forms present. | ## 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. | Check | Result | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Malware engines | 10 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted | | Domain age | 5.8 years old (Registered history) | Clear | | Web archive | Archived since 2020 (313 snapshots) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR2) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the joaquimpsantos.pt homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/joaquimpsantos.pt/screenshots/first.png) _What joaquimpsantos.pt served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-21. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2020. - At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Security Alert Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution. This website is a Portuguese personal portfolio and maintenance landing page for photographer and videographer Joaquim Pedro Santos. It presents a short professional biography, links to Behance, Instagram, and LinkedIn, a contact route, and a downloadable curriculum vitae, with an apparent business model based on future portfolio presentation and direct client commissions. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The site content itself presents no login form, payment function, credential request, or financial solicitation, and no brand impersonation or conflicting legal identity was identified. However, this benign presentation is materially outweighed by confirmed external threat intelligence: the domain is blacklisted, ten malicious detections were recorded, and Fortinet and Sophos identified threat activity. The combination creates a direct contradiction between the apparently ordinary portfolio page and the domain’s external reputation, so sensitive interaction should not be treated as safe. The observed network behavior also included substantial external traffic and non-whitelisted requests, although no hidden forms, wallet-drainer activity, or cloaking was detected. Evidence: - The homepage is a maintenance landing page identifying Joaquim Pedro Santos as a photographer and videographer, with no login, payment, or sensitive-data form. - External reputation telemetry records 10 malicious detections, a confirmed blacklist result, and Tier-1 detections from Fortinet and Sophos. - The domain was first observed in the archive on 2020-11-01T14:31:06Z and last observed on 2026-02-24T23:46:13Z, with 313 snapshots across 7 tracked years. - Archive telemetry records a domain age of 5.798767967145791 years and no suspicious repurposing or semantic category change. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The available page supports an apparent connection to an individual creative professional, but the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified. The maintenance page does not provide corporate, licensing, or other formal regulatory disclosures; for a personal photography portfolio this is a transparency gap rather than evidence of a regulated financial activity. No broker profile match was identified in the supplied third-party context. The external blacklist result remains a security and reputational concern, not a legal or licensing determination. Evidence: - The homepage names Joaquim Pedro Santos and identifies the activity as photography and videography. - The homepage provides links to Behance, Instagram, LinkedIn, and a CV download, but no corporate registration or licensing information. - The site is hosted on AS62416, PTServidor - SAMPLING LINE-SERVICOS E INTERNET, LDA, PT. - The site’s TLS certificate uses DV validation, is issued by YR2, and is valid until 2026-10-26T09:31:49+00:00. ### What to Verify Next Before any credential, download, payment, or business engagement, an organization should independently confirm that the named photographer controls the linked professional and social profiles and that those profiles reference the same domain. Contact details should be confirmed through an independently sourced route, and any proposed commission should be documented with an identifiable contracting party, verifiable payment protections, and customary commercial terms. The domain’s blacklist status should also be resolved by the responsible website operator and rechecked through independent security monitoring before sensitive use. Evidence: - The homepage directs visitors to Behance, Instagram, LinkedIn, email contact, and a CV rather than to an authenticated account area. - The page is explicitly marked as under maintenance and states that the full portfolio is forthcoming. - No transaction, credential, or sensitive-data form was present in the captured page. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is **critical trust risk** because strong external threat detections and confirmed blacklisting conflict with the site’s otherwise ordinary portfolio presentation. The website may correspond to a real individual, but that connection is not independently established sufficiently to support sensitive interaction or business reliance. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site resolves directly to a single likely origin hosted by PTServidor - SAMPLING LINE-SERVICOS E INTERNET, LDA, on AS62416 in Portugal, with no detected CDN or WAF layer. The valid transport certificate provides encryption in transit, but the infrastructure offers no protective mitigation capable of offsetting the domain’s adverse external reputation. Evidence: - DNS resolution identified one IP address, 185.32.190.4, with one likely origin and zero edge IPs. - No CDN or WAF vendor was detected. - The transport certificate is DV-validated and issued by YR2. ### Closing Assessment Sensitive interaction should be suspended pending independent identity confirmation, resolution of the external security detections, and a fresh assessment showing that the adverse reputation has been cleared. Until then, use should be limited to non-sensitive observation. _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 public registration record for this domain is incomplete. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE`) ### 02 Sensitive Interaction Risk - The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor. (Analysis engine `signal:direct_threat`) - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC`) - Most of what the page loaded came from other domains rather than from this one. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_HIGH`) - The page sent data to a destination TrustSniffer does not recognise. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_POSTS`) - The page made background requests to destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_XHR`) - 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 | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Status | LIKELY | | Identity score | 76/100 | | Identity verification confidence | 76% | - Trusted social count=2 _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 joaquimpsantos.pt. - The request stayed on joaquimpsantos.pt. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2020-11-01. (Clear) - It is hosted on PTServidor, from a server in PT. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Not available | | Hosting | PTServidor - SAMPLING LINE-SERVICOS E INTERNET, LDA, PT | | Country | PT | | Server IP | 185.32.190.4 | | Name servers | Not available | | SSL issuer | YR2 | | SSL expiry | 2026-10-26 | | Domain age | 5.80 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | Not available | | Archive first seen | 2020-11-01 | | Archive snapshots | 313 | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 10 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about joaquimpsantos.pt 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. 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