Verdict
lingzhi-bj.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 | Institutional college webpage (Chinese) containing admissions information, department listings, news items, and contact details for the college in Beijing. No forms or financial solicitations visible on the sampled page. |
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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 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 8.7 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2010Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2010.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
This website presents itself as an informational higher-education institution in Beijing, offering admissions information, department and programme listings, institutional news, campus details, and contact information. Its apparent purpose is to support prospective students and provide general information about the college rather than to solicit direct commercial transactions.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No blacklist, phishing, malicious-content, or brand-impersonation contradiction was observed. The homepage metadata contains Chinese betting-related wording that is inconsistent with the visible college content; this is a content-integrity anomaly, but the supplied assessment does not attribute it to impersonation or malicious behavior. The visible page instead contains institutional admissions material, ministry-related claims, programme information, and campus contact details, with no login form, payment solicitation, wallet connection, or sensitive-data form. Available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate informational website, while the real-world operator remains independently unverified.
- The homepage contains admissions notices, academic departments, programme descriptions, institutional news, and campus contact details.
- The homepage’s visible metadata contains betting-related Chinese wording despite the institutional subject matter.
- External checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and 0 abuse reports; reputation coverage was partial.
- The domain was registered in 2017 and is approximately 8.67 years old; the archive record contains 35 snapshots spanning 2010–2025, covering 16 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents itself as a public college and states affiliations or relationships involving China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and education-sector bodies. Those claims support an apparent institutional purpose but do not independently establish the legal identity of the operator. No financial or commercial licence is claimed in the supplied content, and no licence number or regulator registration is presented; for an educational information site this is a disclosure and verification matter rather than evidence of a scam. The site’s page-level content is low-risk and informational, although its limited metadata and the unexplained homepage wording reduce clarity about the site’s current identity. The registration privacy service is an administrative detail, not an identity contradiction.
- The homepage states that the institution is a public college directly associated with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and references Ministry of Education-related educational resources.
- The homepage provides a Beijing-area campus address, telephone numbers, admissions information, and an institutional-domain reference.
- Registration was through NameSilo, LLC; creation date 2017-12-22 and expiry date 2026-12-22.
- The site is hosted by PEG-LA - PEG TECH INC, US, on AS398823; its TLS certificate is DV, issued by YR2, and valid to 2026-10-27.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, independently confirm that the college name, campus address, admissions information, and published telephone numbers correspond to an institution listed by the relevant education or civil-affairs authorities. Any tuition or other payment should be made only through an independently confirmed institutional channel and with ordinary payment-protection and refund or cancellation terms understood. The official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent source rather than relying solely on the webpage.
- The homepage links to education and civil-affairs ministry resources that can support independent institutional verification.
- The homepage supplies multiple telephone numbers and a campus postal address suitable for cross-checking against authoritative sources.
- The sampled page showed no payment form or direct financial solicitation, so any later payment request should be assessed separately from the informational content reviewed here.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate educational website. This conclusion reflects convergence across substantive institutional content, stable technical operation, long-running domain and archival presence, valid transport encryption, and the absence of observed contradiction signals; it does not constitute proof of the real-world operator’s identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly through PEG-LA - PEG TECH INC infrastructure, with no CDN or WAF edge identified and no separate origin-obfuscation layer observed. Direct hosting is a neutral infrastructure characteristic rather than evidence of wrongdoing; the valid TLS deployment provides transport protection for ordinary browsing.
- Infrastructure resolution identified 1 unique IP and 0 CDN edge IPs.
- No CDN vendor was detected.
- The resolved hosting country was the US, with ARIN recorded as the registry.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational browsing is proportionate to the evidence; before submitting credentials or making payments, ordinary independent checks of institutional identity, transaction terms, and payment protections should be completed.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 | 25% |
- 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 lingzhi-bj.com.
- The request stayed on lingzhi-bj.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under NameSilo, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by dnsowl.com, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-12-22. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2010-08-08. Clear
- It is hosted on PEG-LA, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | NameSilo, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | PEG-LA - PEG TECH INC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 38.38.116.74 |
| Name servers | NS1.DNSOWL.COM, NS2.DNSOWL.COM, NS3.DNSOWL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-27 |
| Domain age | 8.67 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-12-22 |
| Archive first seen | 2010-08-08 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| 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 lingzhi-bj.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.