Verdict
ma-shops.de 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 | MA-Shops is an established German-language marketplace where professional dealers offer coins, banknotes, stamps, and other collectibles for sale. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | Not availableNo registration record was returned | Noted |
| Web archive | Archived since 20061033 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Public web-archive history exists since 2006.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
MA-Shops is an established German-language marketplace where professional dealers offer coins, banknotes, stamps, jewelry, and related collectibles for sale through a structured ecommerce platform.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions, phishing indicators, brand-impersonation signals, or confirmed blacklist findings were observed. The marketplace presentation, dealer-oriented structure, purchase guidance, legal links, and extensive category coverage are consistent with a genuine collectibles business rather than a deceptive investment or credential-harvesting operation.
- The homepage presents MA-Shops as a marketplace for purchasing coins and banknotes from professional dealers.
- Page analysis identified no phishing forms, hidden sensitive forms, wallet-drainer behavior, or brand impersonation.
- The domain has an archive-reconciled age of 20.5065 years, with first observation on 2006-01-28.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as an ecommerce marketplace rather than presenting itself as a regulated financial-services provider. No specific financial license or registration claim is presented, which is a limited transparency note rather than evidence of misconduct. External reputation checks were clean, and no broker-dataset match was identified.
- The homepage provides links for “Impressum,” help, guarantees, login, and dealer marketplace navigation.
- The archive contains 1,033 snapshots spanning 2006–2026, covering 21 tracked years.
- The site is served from AS205948, CREOLINE-AS – creoline GmbH, Germany.
- TLS uses Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 with DV validation, valid until 2027-03-12 23:59:59 UTC.
What to Verify Next
For higher-value purchases, confirm the relevant dealer’s identity, returns terms, payment protections, and applicable consumer safeguards before completing the transaction. Where required by the transaction or jurisdiction, licensing or business details should be checked against the appropriate official registry.
- The homepage identifies individual dealer participation as the marketplace operating model.
- The site provides purchase guidance and legal-information access points.
- The marketplace offers account login and standard transaction functionality.
Summary Verdict
MA-Shops presents as a legitimate, established, high-trust ecommerce marketplace with a coherent business model and no observed contradiction or fraud indicators. Normal interaction, including account login and standard use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to a single likely origin address rather than a CDN edge network, with no CDN or WAF detected. Its hosting is nevertheless clearly attributed to CREOLINE-AS – creoline GmbH in Germany, and the resolved infrastructure does not create a material concern under the overall assessment.
Closing Assessment
Normal browsing, account use, and standard marketplace transactions are appropriate, subject to ordinary transaction-level checks for the selected dealer and purchase.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-01 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 | 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 ma-shops.de.
- The request stayed on ma-shops.de. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by creolineserver.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2006-01-28. Clear
- It is hosted on CREOLINE-AS, from a server in DE. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CREOLINE-AS - creoline GmbH, DE |
| Country | DE |
| Server IP | 5.1.77.177 |
| Name servers | ns1.creolineserver.com, ns2.creolineserver.com, ns3.creolineserver.com, ns4.creolineserver.com |
| SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-03-12 |
| Domain age | Not available (no registration date was returned) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2006-01-28 |
| Archive snapshots | 1033 |
| 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 ma-shops.de 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.