--- title: "Is lamaison.bc.ca a Scam? Trust Score 5/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "lamaison.bc.ca" verdict: "Critical Risk" title: "Is lamaison.bc.ca a Scam? Trust Score 5/100" trust_score: 5 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/lamaison.bc.ca assessed: 2026-08-21 --- # Is lamaison.bc.ca a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 5/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 5/100.** lamaison.bc.ca 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 55%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | What this site appears to be | Official site for La Maison de la Francophonie de Vancouver describing mission, history, team, venue Studio 16, rental rates and contact information. Primarily informational for community members and event renters. | ## 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 | 9 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 | 26 years old (Registered history) | Clear | | Web archive | Archived since 2002 (Public history exists) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR1) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the lamaison.bc.ca homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/lamaison.bc.ca/screenshots/first.png) _What lamaison.bc.ca served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-21. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2002. - At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Overview This is the informational website of La Maison de la Francophonie de Vancouver, presenting the organisation’s mission, history, personnel, Studio 16 venue, rental information, events, and contact details for Francophone community members and prospective event renters. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk The site’s visible content is consistent with a community cultural organisation rather than an investment, custodial, or financial-services platform. The homepage and related pages contain no login form, sensitive-data form, wallet connection, or detected impersonation indicators; however, external reputation checks recorded multiple malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist status. These external contradictions are materially more significant than the benign presentation of the pages, and the site should not be treated as suitable for credentials, financial transactions, or other sensitive interactions. No conflicting legal-entity names, direct phishing indicator, or confirmed brand-impersonation pattern was observed in the supplied page evidence. Evidence: - The homepage describes La Maison de la Francophonie de Vancouver as a space for Francophone and Francophile meetings and exchanges, with no financial-product presentation. - Behavioural inspection recorded no login form, hidden form, password submission, wallet connection, clipboard hijacking, or wallet-drainer activity. - External reputation telemetry recorded `vt_malicious: 9`, `vt_suspicious: 2`, and `external_blacklist: true`. - Domain registration records show registration on 2000-11-09 and an age of 25.79 years; this establishes a long registration history but does not neutralise the current reputation contradiction. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The About, history, administrators-and-staff, Studio 16, rental, and contact pages present an identifiable community-centre purpose and describe venue services, sponsorship, local support, and event bookings. The site does not claim a financial-services licence or provide a licence number; given the stated cultural and venue-rental model, this is a regulatory-disclosure point for confirmation rather than evidence of fraud. Registration information associates the domain with La Maison de la francophonie de Vancouver and lists Tucows.com Co. as registrar, while independent identity verification remains incomplete. The available evidence therefore supports a plausible organisational identity but does not prove that the online service is controlled by the real-world entity. Evidence: - The About and history pages identify La Maison de la Francophonie de Vancouver and describe its organisational mission and development. - The administrators-and-staff page presents governance and personnel information for the organisation. - Domain registration records list the registrar as Tucows.com Co. and the registrant as La Maison de la francophonie de Vancouver, Corporation. - The site’s stated business model is sponsorship, Studio 16 rental, event bookings, and local community support; no licence authority or licence number is claimed. ### What to Verify Next Before any sensitive interaction, an organisation considering engagement should confirm the entity and its official contact channels through an independent route, such as a publicly sourced telephone number, municipal or community-partner listing, or the relevant corporate registry. Any venue booking or payment should be matched to a written invoice, clearly identified payee, cancellation terms, and payment method offering appropriate dispute protection. If a regulated activity is later proposed, the applicable Canadian provincial or federal registry should be checked directly rather than relying on the website’s own statements. Evidence: - The site provides separate Contact, About, history, and administrators-and-staff pages that can serve as the basis for independent identity comparison. - Studio 16 pages describe venue presentation, rental rates, technical information, and event-related services. - The reviewed page behaviour showed no sensitive form or external password-submission destination. ### Summary Verdict The overall posture is **critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction**. Although the website presents coherent community-organisation content and has a long registration history, the confirmed blacklist status and multiple malicious reputation detections create a decisive trust contradiction, while the real-world operator remains unverified. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site resolves directly to infrastructure associated with Oracle Corporation in the United States, with no CDN or WAF edge layer identified. The transport certificate is domain-validated rather than organisation-validated; these controls support encrypted delivery but provide no assurance that the site is legitimate or safe for sensitive use. Evidence: - Hosted on AS31898, identified as `ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US`. - TLS certificate issued by YR1 with DV validation, valid to 2026-10-22T23:31:45+00:00. - Infrastructure resolution identified one IP address, no CDN, and no origin candidates. ### Closing Assessment The appropriate enterprise disposition is to restrict the site to non-sensitive, read-only research until the external reputation contradiction is independently resolved and the organisation’s control of the domain is confirmed. Credentials, confidential information, payments, and other consequential actions should remain outside the site until that confirmation is complete. _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, 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`) - 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 | 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 lamaison.bc.ca. - The request stayed on lamaison.bc.ca. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under Tucows.com Co.. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by hostgator.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2028-03-16. (Clear) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2002-06-28. (Clear) - It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | Tucows.com Co. | | Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US | | Country | US | | Server IP | 192.254.233.34 | | Name servers | ns6457.hostgator.com, ns6458.hostgator.com | | SSL issuer | YR1 | | SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 | | Domain age | 25.79 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2028-03-16 | | Archive first seen | 2002-06-28 | | Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 9 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about lamaison.bc.ca 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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