Verdict
mercadobitcoin.com.br is moderately trusted.
Most signals looked ordinary, and some evidence was missing. Read the checks below before you pay or hand over personal details.
| What this site appears to be | Mercado Bitcoin marketing/landing page in Portuguese describing an established cryptocurrency exchange service, asset listings, products (trading, credits, fixed income, passive income), regulatory compliance statements, audit partner mention (KPMG), and multiple customer features with calls to create account and download app. |
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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 | 15 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Governance Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- 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
This is a Portuguese-language digital-asset exchange and wallet/payment platform presenting investment-related services, asset access, account creation, customer support, and mobile-app use to prospective customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence shows no confirmed phishing, impersonation, malicious reputation, or conflicting legal identities. The homepage presents a coherent Mercado Bitcoin exchange experience with account and email-capture flows, while technical interaction testing found no hidden forms, externally submitted password forms, wallet-drainer activity, clipboard manipulation, or cloaking. The site’s dynamic behavior generated network and DOM activity, including console errors, but the observed activity did not produce a confirmed fraud indicator.
- The homepage identifies the service as Mercado Bitcoin and provides exchange, security, support, complaints-channel, and ombudsman navigation.
- The homepage behavior analysis found no hidden forms, password submissions to external destinations, wallet connections, clipboard writes, or cloaking.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, 0 AbuseIPDB reports, and no blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The website presents regulatory-compliance statements and mentions KPMG as an audit partner, but the supplied pages do not establish a verified licensing authority or license number. This is a regulatory-disclosure gap rather than evidence of a scam. The business model involves custody and payment services, trading, credits, fixed-income and passive-income products, and premium offerings such as MB One and Prime; because customers deposit fiat or crypto before using these services, regulatory status, custody arrangements, product terms, and withdrawal protections warrant independent confirmation. The registration record identifies MERCADO BITCOIN SERVICOS DIGITAIS LTDA., but the site-to-entity connection remains unverified in the available evidence. No adverse broker-reputation match was recorded.
- The homepage describes cryptocurrency exchange and wallet/payment services, including trading, CriptoCrédito, Renda Fixa, Renda Passiva, MB One, and Prime.
- The site’s compliance content mentions regulatory alignment and KPMG, but no license authority or license number is established in the supplied evidence.
- The domain registration record shows registration on 2011-06-01 and an age of 15.21 years.
- Served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US); TLS certificate issued by Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2, DV validation, valid to 2026-10-04.
What to Verify Next
Before high-value funding or sensitive account activity, the applicable financial-services registry should be checked for the named legal entity and the specific services offered. The audit and compliance statements should be confirmed through independently sourced corporate or audit materials, and custody, withdrawal, fee, dispute, and customer-fund terms should be reviewed in the applicable legal documentation. Contact and complaints channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before relying on them for account recovery or payment disputes.
- The homepage provides dedicated routes for support, complaints, and ombudsman services.
- The site includes About, Security, Help, and FAQ content that can be cross-checked against the applicable legal and customer-protection terms.
- The homepage contains account-creation and email-capture functionality, making independent confirmation of the official service channels relevant before sensitive use.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as an established, apparently legitimate digital-asset service with no observed scam or impersonation contradiction, but its real-world operator identity and regulatory standing are not independently verified by the supplied evidence. The resulting posture is moderate trust: suitable for ordinary evaluation and limited interaction, while high-value financial reliance remains subject to external validation.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF infrastructure, with all observed addresses identified as Cloudflare edge servers and no origin candidate exposed in the analysis. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating technical control, but it does not independently establish the operator’s legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users should complete the applicable entity, licensing, product-term, and payment-protection checks before committing substantial funds or undertaking sensitive financial activity.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 by the TrustSniffer Analysis Engine from the evidence in this report.
What the analysis found
2 findings contributed to this verdict, raised by registration and ownership, behaviour in a sandbox.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Dynamic Interaction Caution
- A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE
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 mercadobitcoin.com.br.
- The request stayed on mercadobitcoin.com.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2033-06-01. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6811:1969 |
| Name servers | cortney.ns.cloudflare.com, dean.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | Go Daddy Secure Certificate Authority - G2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-04 |
| Domain age | 15.21 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2033-06-01 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 mercadobitcoin.com.br 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.