Verdict
marcbellay.fr 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 | Personal website for Marc Bellay, a filmmaker/videographer. Contains about, gallery, drone, contact sections, demo reel embeds (Vimeo/YouTube), and clear contact/email/phone details. No forms requesting credentials or payments on the page content provided. |
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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 | 6.3 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2021Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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 2021.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
marcbellay.fr is a personal professional portfolio for Marc Bellay, a filmmaker and videographer. It presents an “About” section, gallery, drone work, demo reels, and direct contact channels, with an apparent business model based on commissioned film-production and videography services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent personal-service model, while the gallery and embedded Vimeo and YouTube material support the stated videography purpose. The captured content contains no login, credential-collection, payment, wallet-connection, phishing, or brand-impersonation mechanism, and the available external checks reported no malicious or suspicious detections. The operator’s real-world identity remains likely rather than independently verified, so the site’s apparent legitimacy should not be treated as proof of a legally established entity.
- The homepage describes more than ten years of film work, a client-brief and storyboard process, production scheduling, filming, editing, and revision stages.
- The contact and legal-information areas identify the portfolio as belonging to Marc Bellay and provide direct business-contact details.
- Domain registration: 2020-04-22; age 6.33 years; registrar: OVH.
- Web-archive coverage records 13 snapshots spanning 2021–2026, with 6 years tracked and no detected category repurposing.
Regulatory Verification Notes
This is presented as a professional creative-services portfolio rather than a financial, investment, or otherwise regulated offering. The legal-information content does not provide a regulated-sector licence or registration number; for this type of service site, that is a contracting-transparency point rather than evidence of a scam. Available third-party reputation context contains no broker match, and no confirmed blacklist, phishing, or malicious-site contradiction was identified. The site’s transport security is valid but domain-validated, which protects the connection without independently establishing the operator’s legal identity.
- The site’s hosting infrastructure is served from AS16276 (OVH - OVH SAS, FR).
- TLS certificate: issuer YE1; validation level DV; valid to 2026-09-20T12:33:29+00:00.
- The legal-information content is available on the site, but no regulated licence or registration number is presented in the supplied page material.
- Available reputation checks record zero malicious detections, zero suspicious detections, and no broker-dataset match.
What to Verify Next
Before a paid engagement, independently confirm the contracting party, invoice recipient, scope of work, delivery milestones, cancellation or refund terms, and payment-protection options. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced route, and the portfolio work should be matched to the intended service and deliverables before any credentials or payment information are exchanged.
- The About section sets out a defined workflow from brief and storyboard through production, editing, revisions, and publication.
- The gallery and embedded demo-reel sections provide material that can be reviewed against the proposed commission.
- The site contains no captured forms requesting credentials or payment details, so contracting and payment arrangements would need to be established separately.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. The operator identity is likely but not independently verified, so the positive assessment should not be interpreted as proof of a confirmed legal entity.
Infrastructure Integrity
CDN/WAF protection is present, and all observed addresses were associated with edge infrastructure rather than an identified origin candidate. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying service and is a mitigating technical signal, but it does not by itself establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary portfolio review and commercial engagement are proportionate, subject to the standard independent checks of contracting identity, service terms, and payment protections before sensitive or financial interactions.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 74% |
- Trusted social count=1
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 marcbellay.fr.
- The request stayed on marcbellay.fr. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under OVH. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ovh.net, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-22. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2021-03-04. Clear
- It is hosted on OVH, from a server in FR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | OVH |
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| Hosting | OVH - OVH SAS, FR |
| Country | FR |
| Server IP | 2001:41d0:301:3::29 |
| Name servers | dns110.ovh.net, ns110.ovh.net |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-20 |
| Domain age | 6.33 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-22 |
| Archive first seen | 2021-03-04 |
| 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 marcbellay.fr 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.