Verdict
nfpconsultancy.com.au is low-trust and potentially risky.
Several risk patterns were present. Do not send money or personal details until you have verified this business another way.
| What this site appears to be | Website for NFP Consultancy Services offering advisory and support to Australian not-for-profit organisations with services, testimonials, contact details and blog links. |
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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 | 3 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 9.5 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2017274 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YR2 | Noted |
The page as captured
Key findings
- Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2017.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
NFP Consultancy Services is a boutique Australian management consultancy presenting governance, change-management, financial-management, leadership, and SHRM support for not-for-profit organisations, with the apparent business model of paid advisory engagements, consultations, and retained services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s content is consistent with a conventional consultancy and contains no detected login form, sensitive submission form, wallet connection, or obvious deceptive financial promise. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external reputation contradictions: three malicious detections, one suspicious detection, and a confirmed blacklist result from multiple external sources. The site therefore presents a material risk for sensitive interaction, and the available evidence does not establish that the apparent consultancy identity is independently verified.
- The homepage describes support for Australian charities, including governance, change management, financial management, and leadership development, and offers a confidential introductory consultation.
- Domain continuity is 9.535934291581109 years, with the first archived record dated 2017-02-04T10:03:37Z.
- Web archives record 274 snapshots from 2017-02-04T10:03:37Z through 2026-02-01T05:02:59Z, covering 10 years.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The homepage presents the organisation as a boutique consultancy with more than 20 years of sector experience and includes testimonials and contact information. No licence, registration number, or licensing authority is claimed in the supplied site content; for a consultancy, this is primarily a disclosure and identity-verification gap rather than standalone evidence of fraud. Registration data identifies Melbourne IT as registrar and Barry John Schipplock as the listed registrant, but that record does not independently verify the operating entity or its authority to provide the stated services.
- The homepage identifies “NFP Consultancy Services” and states that it supports not-for-profit organisations across the Gold Coast, Gladstone, and beyond.
- The site’s service navigation includes Governance, Change Management, Financial Management, SHRM, and Leadership.
- Hosting infrastructure is AS216180, WHG-AUS - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YR2, uses DV validation, and is valid until 2026-10-22T10:57:56+00:00.
What to Verify Next
Before any engagement, an independent registry or corporate-records check should confirm the operating person or entity, trading name, and authority to contract. The applicable Australian regulatory or professional registry should also be checked for any authorisation relevant to the specific advisory service, while contact details and testimonials should be corroborated through independently sourced channels rather than relying solely on the website.
- The site does not provide a licence number or licensing authority for independent registry matching.
- The homepage provides the primary identity, service descriptions, testimonials, and contact route that require external corroboration before a paid engagement.
Summary Verdict
The website has a plausible consultancy presentation and sustained historical presence, but the confirmed external threat detections and blacklist status control the assessment. Its overall posture is low trust, with sensitive interaction risk and an unverified real-world operator identity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves to two likely origin addresses and has no detected CDN or WAF layer. This provides no meaningful edge-level mitigation for exposure, although the hosting environment is technically resolved and identifiable.
Closing Assessment
Restrict activity to passive review until the operator, contractual identity, and relevant service authorisations have been independently confirmed; credentials, financial transactions, and other sensitive submissions should not be undertaken on the basis of the website alone.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-19 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.
01 Governance Risk
- The public registration record for this domain is incomplete.Registration and ownership
rule:KF_WHOIS_INCOMPLETE
02 Sensitive Interaction Risk
- The analysis matched a pattern TrustSniffer treats as a direct threat to a visitor.Analysis engine
signal:direct_threat
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 nfpconsultancy.com.au.
- The request stayed on nfpconsultancy.com.au. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Melbourne IT. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by netregistry.net, across 3 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2017-02-04. Clear
- It is hosted on WHG-AUS, from a server in GB. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Melbourne IT |
|---|---|
| Hosting | WHG-AUS - WHG Hosting Services Ltd, GB |
| Country | GB |
| Server IP | 2403:1400:2:1::107 |
| Name servers | ns1.netregistry.net, ns2.netregistry.net, ns3.netregistry.net |
| SSL issuer | YR2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-22 |
| Domain age | 9.54 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 2017-02-04 |
| Archive snapshots | 274 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 3 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about nfpconsultancy.com.au 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.