Verdict
kungfutea.com 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 | Official brand website for Kung Fu Tea: provides menu, locations, franchise info, promotions, app download and consumer-focused cookie/privacy details. Contains newsletter and SMS opt-in mechanisms and ecommerce/ordering pathways. |
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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% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 0 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Clear |
| Domain age | 20 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2004925 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2004.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Kung Fu Tea is an established corporate food-and-beverage website presenting menus, store locations, franchise information, promotions, loyalty features, app-based ordering, merchandise, and consumer privacy options for a national bubble-tea retail brand.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent retail and franchise identity, with no detected phishing, credential-harvesting, malware, brand-impersonation, or conflicting legal-identity indicators. The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage identifies the business as Kung Fu Tea and provides consumer-facing menu, location, promotion, and ordering content.
- External reputation checks recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no phishing or malware finding.
- The domain was registered in 2006 and is approximately 20.43 years old.
- Historical coverage records 925 archive snapshots spanning 2004–2026, with 23 years tracked.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site provides consumer-oriented privacy and cookie disclosures and includes franchise and contact pathways, but the available material does not independently establish the legal operator or present a verified licensing or registration number. For this retail and franchise business model, that is a verification and disclosure consideration rather than evidence of deception. Registration privacy is an administrative limitation, while the long operating history, established content, and clean external reputation support the site's apparent legitimacy.
- The privacy and cookie materials describe consent choices, necessary cookies, analytics, and consumer data handling.
- The franchise and contact pathways present a commercial business relationship without a stated regulatory license or registration number.
- Domain registration is through GoDaddy.com, LLC, with privacy administration provided by Domains By Proxy, LLC.
- The site's transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-12-24.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm the merchant and franchise operator identity, review the applicable ordering, return, cancellation, and payment-protection terms, and confirm that any mobile application is published through the expected official app marketplace account. Contact details and support channels should be cross-checked through an independent business directory or offline source.
- The franchise page is the relevant source for confirming the commercial operator and franchise relationship.
- The ordering, rewards, and app pathways are the relevant sources for reviewing transaction and account terms.
- The privacy and cookie pages are the relevant sources for confirming data-use and marketing-consent practices.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, with strong evidence consistent with an established and apparently legitimate website. No scam, impersonation, phishing, or other contradictory signal was identified, but operator identity remains likely rather than independently verified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by a CDN/WAF layer, and the observed address is treated as an edge endpoint rather than a directly exposed origin. This reduces direct infrastructure exposure and is a mitigating control, but it is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
- Hosted on AS16276 (OVH - OVH SAS, FR), with the observed endpoint located in the United States.
- The infrastructure records one CDN edge address and no observable origin candidate.
Closing Assessment
Proceed with ordinary commercial safeguards, including independent merchant-identity, transaction-term, and payment-protection checks before entering credentials or completing a payment.
Written analysis generated 2026-09-30 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, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 Registration and ownership
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN
02 Behaviour in a sandbox
- The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - The page exchanged network traffic with destinations TrustSniffer does not recognise.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_NONWHITELISTED_TRAFFIC - 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
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 39% |
- 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 kungfutea.com.
- The request stayed on kungfutea.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 2028-05-01. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2004-03-24. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 15.204.60.228 |
| Name servers | NS57.DOMAINCONTROL.COM, NS58.DOMAINCONTROL.COM |
| CDN / edge network | Detected |
| Resolved IP addresses | 1 |
| Edge IP addresses | 1 |
| Likely origin IP addresses | 0 |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-12-24 |
| Domain age | 20.43 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-05-01 |
| Archive first seen | 2004-03-24 |
| Archive snapshots | 925 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0% confidence, 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about kungfutea.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.