Verdict
marketbook.co.za 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 | MarketBook South Africa is an established marketplace for buying, selling, hiring, and advertising trucks, trailers, construction equipment, farm machinery, and parts. The page provides extensive category navigation, equipment listings with prices, company background, industry blog content, advertising details, and publication information. |
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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 | 1 reportAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 16 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- VirusTotal and Google Safe Browsing had no flags for this domain; its hosting IP carries AbuseIPDB reports below the confidence level TrustSniffer treats as a flag.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
MarketBook South Africa is an established online marketplace for buying, selling, hiring, and advertising trucks, trailers, construction equipment, farm machinery, parts, and attachments. Its visitor-facing model combines searchable equipment listings, seller and dealer participation, advertising, subscriptions, auctions, and related industry publications.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent commercial marketplace with extensive categories, priced equipment listings, dealer and advertising functions, company information, and publication content. It shows no phishing indicators, suspicious forms, brand-impersonation signals, crypto features, or other high-risk abuse patterns. External reputation checks were clean, with no confirmed malicious or blacklist finding.
- Homepage: “MarketBook South Africa” identifies a marketplace for new and used equipment and provides structured category navigation.
- Homepage: Login, registration, dealer-portal, advertising, contact, and sell-equipment functions are presented as standard marketplace features.
- Page content: Red-flag count was 0; malicious and suspicious reputation findings were both 0.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site appears to represent Sandhills Global and operates through a long-established domain registered with Ascio. The supplied site content provides company background and publication information, but no specific regulatory license or registration number is evidenced; this is a transparency item for business-model verification, not an indication of deception. No third-party broker match was identified.
- Domain registration: Created 2010-04-08; domain age 16.32 years; expiry 2027-04-08; registrant organization Sandhills Global; registrar Ascio.
- Hosting: Served on AS13335, Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- Transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by WE1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-05.
- Homepage: Company background, advertising details, and industry publication information are displayed.
What to Verify Next
For regulated procurement or materially significant transactions, confirm any applicable licensing or registration directly with the relevant South African authority and validate seller details through independently sourced contact information. Standard account login and marketplace interaction are appropriate.
- Marketplace pages: Buyer, seller, dealer, advertising, and registration workflows are exposed as ordinary site functions.
- Listing content: Equipment categories and displayed prices provide transaction-specific details for independent review.
- Contact and company-information content: Independent confirmation routes are available for counterparties and commercial arrangements.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy commercial marketplace with strong convergence across its coherent business content, mature domain identity, clean external reputation, and valid technical controls. No evidence indicates phishing, impersonation, malicious distribution, or deceptive financial activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection fronts the site, with observed edge addresses 104.18.35.200 and 172.64.152.56, both on AS13335; no origin candidate was observed. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating infrastructure characteristic, but is not by itself proof of legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal interaction, including account login and standard account actions, is appropriate; transaction counterparties and any significant commercial commitment should still be assessed on their individual merits.
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 |
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| 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 marketbook.co.za.
- The request stayed on marketbook.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Ascio. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-04-08. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Ascio |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 172.64.152.56 |
| Name servers | ingrid.ns.cloudflare.com, noel.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-05 |
| Domain age | 16.3 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-04-08 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 0 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 1 report | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about marketbook.co.za 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.