--- title: "Is payam-bahai.com Safe? Trust Score 50/100" source: TrustSniffer type: Website trust & fraud report subject: "payam-bahai.com" verdict: "Moderate Trust" title: "Is payam-bahai.com Safe? Trust Score 50/100" trust_score: 50 classification_confidence: 55 canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/payam-bahai.com assessed: 2026-08-21 --- # Is payam-bahai.com safe? TrustSniffer's moderate-trust assessment: 50/100 ## Verdict **Verdict: Moderate Trust, trust score 50/100.** payam-bahai.com is moderately trusted. Most signals looked ordinary, and some evidence was missing. Read the checks below before you pay or hand over personal details. Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk Assessed 2026-08-21 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 55%. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | What this site appears to be | Official Payám-i-Bahá’í magazine site (Persian-language) with subscription information, publication history since 1979, contact addresses in France, and a WooCommerce-based storefront for subscriptions. | ## 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. | Check | Result | Status | | --- | --- | --- | | Malware engines | 2 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk | | Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear | | Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted | | Domain age | 9.1 years old (Registered history) | Clear | | Web archive | Archived since 2018 (Public history exists) | Clear | | Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36) | Noted | ## The page as captured ![Screenshot of the payam-bahai.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/payam-bahai.com/screenshots/first.png) _What payam-bahai.com served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-08-21. The page may look different now._ ## Key findings - Automated classification: Sensitive Interaction Risk. - Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity). - Public web-archive history exists since 2018. - At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time. ## Full analysis ### Overview Payám-i-Bahá’í is a Persian-language monthly Bahá’í magazine presenting articles on spiritual teachings, societal betterment, community development, and related publications, with subscriptions and reader contributions handled through a WordPress/WooCommerce storefront. ### Scam/Impersonation Risk No on-page brand impersonation or conflicting legal identity was observed, and the site presents a coherent informational publication model rather than a deceptive investment or credential-harvesting service. However, the domain is **blacklisted** by two external reputation sources, including detections of malicious activity; this is a material contradiction to the otherwise benign page presentation and creates elevated risk for sensitive interactions. The available evidence therefore supports reading the content with caution but does not support treating account, payment, or credential activity as low risk. Evidence: - The homepage describes a Persian-language monthly publication financed through subscriptions and reader contributions, with no observed phishing form, wallet connection, or sensitive input form. - External reputation assessment recorded 2 malicious detections and a confirmed blacklist hit across 2 sources. - Domain registration evidence records registration in 2017, with an age of 9.11 years. ### Regulatory Verification Notes The About and publication information identify the magazine as operating under the auspices of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of France and provide a Paris contact address, which gives the site a specific institutional narrative. That affiliation remains an on-site claim rather than an independently verified connection to the real-world organization. The site is not presented as a regulated financial service, and no licensing authority or license number is disclosed; this is a transparency item requiring confirmation rather than, by itself, evidence of fraud. Positive technical and continuity signals include a long-established registration through IONOS SE and valid transport encryption, but these do not resolve the external reputation contradiction or independently authenticate the operator. Evidence: - The About page states that the publication has been issued since 1979 under the auspices of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of France. - The editorial and subscription information provides a Paris, France mailing address for correspondence and subscription matters. - The domain registrar is IONOS SE; the TLS certificate is DV, issued by Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36, and valid to 2026-10-31. - Historical records contain 35 snapshots spanning 2018–2026, covering 9 years of tracking. ### What to Verify Next Independent confirmation should be obtained from an official Bahá’í organizational channel that the publication, domain, and stated French institutional relationship are genuine. Before any subscription payment, the payment recipient, refund terms, checkout operator, and applicable consumer protections should be checked against the subscription and checkout pages. Official contact routes should also be confirmed through an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on contact details presented on the site. Evidence: - The About page supplies the claimed institutional relationship that should be confirmed through an independent organizational source. - The Subscriptions and Checkout pages define the commercial transaction and should be reviewed for payee, refund, and payment-protection details. - The Contact and publication-information pages provide the channels that should be cross-checked independently. ### Summary Verdict The site presents an apparently coherent and established publication identity, but the overall posture is **moderate trust with elevated sensitive-interaction risk**. Confirmed external reputation contradictions materially limit confidence, while the real-world operator identity remains unverified. ### Infrastructure Integrity The site benefits from CDN/WAF protection, which mitigates direct exposure of the hosting environment but is not proof of legitimacy. Observed edge addresses are associated with AS8560 and IONOS-AS – IONOS SE, DE; the infrastructure record identifies no observable origin-server candidate. ### Closing Assessment Until the stated affiliation and transaction arrangements are independently confirmed, activity should remain limited to non-sensitive reading, with no login, credential submission, or payment interaction. _Written analysis generated 2026-08-21 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 - 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`) - The registration record withholds contact details for the operator. (Registration and ownership `rule:KF_WHOIS_HIDDEN`) ### 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 | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Status | UNVERIFIED | | Identity score | 30/100 | | Identity verification confidence | 25% | - 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 payam-bahai.com. - The request stayed on payam-bahai.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear) - Registration is published under IONOS SE. (Clear) - DNS for this domain is served by ui-dns.biz, across 4 name servers. (Noted) - The registration is paid up to 2027-07-12. (Noted) - The earliest public archive of this site is from 2018-08-05. (Clear) - It is hosted on IONOS-AS, from a server in DE. (Noted) ## Domain intelligence | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Registrar | IONOS SE | | Hosting | IONOS-AS - IONOS SE, DE | | Country | DE | | Server IP | 2001:8d8:100f:f000::25a | | Name servers | NS1039.UI-DNS.BIZ, NS1049.UI-DNS.ORG, NS1087.UI-DNS.COM, NS1094.UI-DNS.DE | | SSL issuer | Sectigo Public Server Authentication CA DV R36 | | SSL expiry | 2026-10-31 | | Domain age | 9.11 years (continuous registration) | | Domain expiry | 2027-07-12 | | Archive first seen | 2018-08-05 | | Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) | | Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches | ## About this assessment A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about payam-bahai.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. 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