Verdict
mesacanada.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | MESA Canada (Men’s Educational Support Association) is a registered Canadian charity providing resources, peer support, seminars, and legal referrals for non-custodial parents. The site includes contact details, a postal address in Calgary, donation and mailing list calls-to-action, and informational pages about services and events. |
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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 | 7 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 28 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1999302 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR1 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1999.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website presents MESA Canada as a Canadian charitable non-profit supporting fathers, families, and non-custodial parents through peer support, seminars, supervised parent-child access, educational resources, legal referrals, events, mailing-list engagement, and donations.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site's visible content is consistent with a charity and does not show a login form, credential-harvesting mechanism, financial-product promotion, or apparent brand impersonation. However, this benign presentation is outweighed by a confirmed blacklist signal and multiple external threat detections, including malicious and suspicious classifications from external reputation sources and a Tier-1 security-vendor flag. The available evidence therefore supports a clearly elevated risk for sensitive interaction, despite the absence of a detected identity contradiction or visible phishing workflow. The domain's long continuity and substantial archival history provide provenance context but do not neutralize the current reputation conflict.
- Domain registration record: registered 1998-10-30; age 27.82 years.
- Web archive: 302 snapshots from 1999-04-17 through 2026-06-07, spanning 28 years with a maximum recorded gap of 1 year.
- Homepage analysis: charity-oriented informational content; no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or external password submission was detected.
- External reputation assessment: 7 malicious detections and 1 suspicious detection were recorded, with a Tier-1 vendor flag and an external blacklist match.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About Us and service pages present MESA Canada as a registered Canadian charity providing support services rather than financial products. The site describes donations, events, peer groups, seminars, and legal referrals, but the supplied content does not show a registration number, licensing reference, or regulator-linked disclosure that independently substantiates the charitable status. Identity linkage is therefore likely but not verified. Transport security is present, but domain-validated TLS confirms encryption of the connection, not the legal identity or regulatory standing of the operator.
- About Us and homepage content: presents MESA Canada as a registered Canadian charity supporting fathers, families, and children.
- Services and events pages: describe peer support, seminars, supervised access, education, and referrals rather than regulated financial services.
- Site transport encryption: TLS certificate issued by YR1, validation level DV, valid to 2026-10-22T04:08:45+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any donation, mailing-list submission, or exchange of personal information, an independent check should confirm that the organization is listed in the relevant Canadian charity registry under the claimed name and that the published Calgary contact details correspond to that record. Donation recipients, payment destinations, and any follow-up communications should be validated through an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on the website. Security teams should also reconcile the blacklist and malicious-detection findings before permitting sensitive interaction from managed environments.
- Homepage: contains Donate and Join Mailing List calls to action, creating a need to validate the recipient and data-processing destination independently.
- Contact and About Us pages: provide the site's principal identity and contact assertions for comparison with an external registry or independently sourced organizational record.
- Site behavior: two successful runs showed stable page delivery, no external XHR or POST activity, no cloaking, and no sensitive form submission; this does not resolve the external reputation findings.
Summary Verdict
The overall trust posture is critical, with sensitive interaction risk taking precedence over the site's coherent charitable presentation and established historical continuity. The available evidence is not sufficient to treat the website as safe for credentials, donations, or other financially or personally sensitive activity, and the operator's real-world identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to a single likely origin hosted by Equinix — Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V., NL — on AS15830 in Canada; no CDN or WAF was detected. This provides a concrete hosting path but offers no protective edge-layer mitigation, so the infrastructure does not offset the external reputation concerns.
Closing Assessment
Prospective users and institutions should restrict activity to passive viewing until the organizational identity, donation pathway, and external threat detections have been independently resolved; credentials, personal information, and financial transactions should not be submitted in the interim.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-20 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, analysis engine, external reputation.
01 Governance Risk
- The registration record withholds contact details for the operator.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN - Registration details are held behind a privacy service, so no operator is named publicly. This is common and legal, and it also means there is nobody to check.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_PRIVATE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat - An external threat feed lists this domain: either Google Safe Browsing marked it malicious, or a significant number of malware engines flagged it.External reputation
rule:EXT_BLACKLIST_CRITICAL
Identity verification
| Status | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 73/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 37% |
- 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 mesacanada.com.
- The request stayed on mesacanada.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under TUCOWS.COM, CO.. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by hostedincanada.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2031-10-29. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1999-04-17. Clear
- It is hosted on Equinix, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | TUCOWS.COM, CO. |
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| Hosting | Equinix - Equinix (EMEA) Acquisition Enterprises B.V., NL |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 170.39.115.27 |
| Name servers | NS1.HOSTEDINCANADA.COM, NS2.HOSTEDINCANADA.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 27.82 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2031-10-29 |
| Archive first seen | 1999-04-17 |
| Archive snapshots | 302 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 7 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about mesacanada.com 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.