Verdict
mass.gov 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 | Official Mass.gov homepage offering government services, resources, multilingual access and links to social media and key state programs. |
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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 | 26 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 20015000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2001.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Mass.gov is a public-service website presenting itself as the official portal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with government information, state services, public-benefit programs, agency contacts, news, multilingual access, and links to government resources; its apparent purpose is informational and administrative rather than commercial, investment-related, or payment-soliciting.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage identifies the site as an official Commonwealth of Massachusetts website, and the content, government-service orientation, multilingual support, and links to established social platforms are consistent with that stated purpose. A behavioral review recorded a hidden form, but no login form, password-external form, wallet interaction, clipboard activity, or cloaking was detected; in this context, the observation does not establish an impersonation or phishing pattern. The available evidence is therefore consistent with an established, apparently legitimate government portal, while the real-world operator identity remains not independently verified.
- The homepage states that Mass.gov is an official website of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and explains the use of the `.mass.gov` domain.
- The homepage provides state services, public programs, agency information, search, and multilingual access rather than investment or payment solicitations.
- Historical records show 5,000 archive snapshots spanning 2001–2020, covering 20 tracked years; the domain was registered on 2000-11-28 and is approximately 25.81 years old.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist result; the site has a traffic rank of 5144.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage supplies a clear institutional identity and describes the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as the responsible government organization. No financial license or registration number is presented in the captured homepage, but the site does not describe a regulated financial service, solicit investments, or offer commercial products, so that absence is a limited disclosure consideration rather than evidence of misconduct. The available evidence supports an established public-sector information portal; it does not independently verify every underlying government affiliation or the legal status of any linked agency service. A third-party broker-reputation dataset produced no match, which is contextual support only and not a licensing determination.
- The homepage identifies the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and labels the site as an official government website.
- The site's transport certificate is OV-validated, issued by DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1, and valid through 2026-10-01.
- The directly observed service infrastructure is AS20940, AKAMAI-ASN1 — Akamai International B.V., NL.
- The page presents government services and resources and contains no captured financial product, investment solicitation, or regulated-trading offer.
What to Verify Next
For credential or payment interactions involving a specific service reached through the portal, confirm that the destination remains within the expected official government domain or an independently confirmed agency domain. Where a transaction or sensitive submission is involved, independently confirm the responsible agency, applicable privacy terms, service eligibility requirements, and available payment-protection or appeal procedures through an official offline contact route. These checks are proportionate safeguards for the particular service being used, not a response to an observed scam indicator.
- The homepage links visitors to state organizations, public programs, agency contacts, and government resources.
- The homepage provides official-language guidance about secure websites and HTTPS connections.
- No sensitive form, login form, or untrusted form destination was identified in the captured page analysis.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate government website with a low-risk, high-trust posture. No phishing, impersonation, malicious-reputation, or identity-conflict signal was observed, although the operator’s real-world identity is not independently verified by this assessment.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website uses protective edge infrastructure, with observed CDN/WAF edge addresses on AS16509, Amazon.com, Inc., US; the origin server was not observable in the analysis. This configuration limits direct exposure of the origin and is a mitigating security characteristic, but it is not proof of legitimacy.
- The infrastructure resolves to two observed edge addresses, both associated with AS16509.
- The infrastructure provider is Amazon.com, Inc., US, and the CDN is marked as trusted.
- No origin candidate was identified among the observed addresses.
Closing Assessment
Normal informational use is proportionate to the available evidence; before submitting credentials or making any payment through a linked service, the responsible agency, destination, terms, and applicable payment protections should be confirmed independently.
Written analysis generated 2026-09-15 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 | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 40% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=4
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 mass.gov.
- The request stayed on mass.gov. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under get.gov. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by akam.net, across 6 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-08-14. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2001-04-13. Clear
- It is hosted on AKAMAI-ASN1, from a server in NL. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | get.gov |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL |
| Country | NL |
| Server IP | 2a02:26f0:e80:7f::17d8:8697 |
| Name servers | a1-243.akam.net, a11-66.akam.net, a16-64.akam.net, a18-66.akam.net, a5-66.akam.net, a8-67.akam.net |
| SSL issuer | DigiCert Global G2 TLS RSA SHA256 2020 CA1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-01 |
| Domain age | 25.81 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-08-14 |
| Archive first seen | 2001-04-13 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 mass.gov 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.