Verdict
moneytimes.com.br 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 | Money Times is a Portuguese-language financial news site providing market quotes, articles on stocks, dividends, cryptocurrencies and election-related coverage. It features newsletters and sponsored content; no evidence of phishing or direct financial services on this page. |
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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 | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- 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
Money Times is a Portuguese-language financial news and market-information website presenting articles, stock and cryptocurrency coverage, market quotations, dividend information, election reporting, newsletters, and sponsored content. Its apparent business model is an advertising- and content-supported media portal rather than a platform providing direct financial services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the available evidence contains no phishing, impersonation, malicious-content, or blacklist findings. The homepage presents coherent editorial content, market data, newsletters, and a single newsletter-signup form rather than login or sensitive-data collection. Runtime telemetry did identify non-whitelisted external traffic and substantial page changes after interaction, but these are implementation-level observations consistent with a media site using advertising, analytics, and dynamic content; they were not accompanied by cloaking, hidden forms, password submission, wallet activity, clipboard manipulation, or credential-harvesting behavior. The overall evidence therefore supports an apparently legitimate, low-risk website, while not independently proving the real-world operator’s identity.
- The homepage is categorized as news/media and contains market reporting, quotations, dividend coverage, cryptocurrency articles, elections, newsletters, and sponsored-content pathways.
- The homepage contains one newsletter-signup form and no login form, sensitive form, hidden form, or untrusted form destination.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no blacklist finding; the observed traffic infrastructure was classified as a content delivery network with 0 abuse reports.
- The domain registration record shows creation on 2015-03-05 and an age of 11.46 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent role is informational publishing, so the available content does not present it as a broker, exchange, lender, or other direct financial-services provider. Nevertheless, no license claim, licensing authority, or license number is stated in the available site profile, leaving regulatory status unclear if a sponsored offer, newsletter promotion, or other commercial interaction were to extend beyond ordinary editorial use. A registration record associates the domain with Empiricus Consultoria e Negócios Ltda., but the supplied evidence does not independently verify that this entity operates the website. This is an identity and disclosure point for ordinary due diligence, not an observed identity contradiction. The site’s clean external reputation and established technical footprint support its apparent legitimacy, while the absence of independent operator verification limits certainty about the legal entity behind it.
- The homepage identifies editorial routes including “Sobre,” “Expediente,” and “Contato,” alongside market-news and newsletter sections.
- The registration record lists Empiricus Consultoria e Negócios Ltda. as the domain owner; independent operator verification is not established in the supplied evidence.
- The site is served from AS16509, AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US.
- The transport certificate is issued by Amazon RSA 2048 M04, uses DV validation, and is valid through 2027-02-25.
What to Verify Next
Before any credential or payment interaction connected with a sponsored offer or commercial promotion, independently confirm the responsible merchant or publisher entity, the applicable return or cancellation terms, and the availability of payment protection. Where an activity presents itself as regulated financial advice or execution rather than editorial information, confirm the relevant authorization directly with the applicable regulatory registry. Official contact channels should also be confirmed through an independent route before resolving disputes or sharing sensitive information.
- The available page content describes an informational news and newsletter model rather than direct financial-service execution.
- The site exposes dedicated “Sobre,” “Expediente,” and “Contato” navigation routes that can be used for entity and channel checks.
- The supplied identity-verification status remains unverified despite the established domain registration and coherent editorial content.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is high trust and low risk, and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate financial-news website. No scam or impersonation contradiction was identified. The principal residual uncertainty concerns independent confirmation of the real-world operator rather than evidence of malicious website behavior.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Amazon CloudFront CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed addresses resolving to CDN edge servers and no origin candidate exposed in the analysis. This provides a meaningful layer of traffic and origin protection, but it is a mitigating infrastructure control rather than proof of organizational legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary informational use is proportionate to the assessed posture; credentials or payments should be limited to interactions that have passed the independent merchant-identity, terms, and payment-protection checks described above.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-17 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 moneytimes.com.br.
- The request stayed on moneytimes.com.br. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by awsdns-41.org, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-03-05. Noted
- It is hosted on AMAZON-02, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
|---|---|
| Hosting | AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 13.33.235.49 |
| Name servers | ns-1355.awsdns-41.org, ns-426.awsdns-53.com, ns-1683.awsdns-18.co.uk, ns-965.awsdns-56.net |
| SSL issuer | Amazon RSA 2048 M04 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-25 |
| Domain age | 11.46 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-03-05 |
| 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 moneytimes.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.