Verdict
pezcolombia.com 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 PEZ COLOMBIA LTDA, an ornamental fish exporter. Provides catalogue, company and contact details including phone/WhatsApp and sales email, plus blog/news and facility information. |
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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 | 6 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 19 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2008Public history exists | 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 2008.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
PEZ COLOMBIA is a commercial company and catalogue website for PEZ COLOMBIA LTDA, presenting ornamental tropical fish for wholesale and retail supply, species catalogues, facilities, fisheries research, company information, and sales-contact channels for aquarium businesses and home customers.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s own content is coherent with an ornamental-fish exporter and does not present login forms, payment portals, cryptocurrency functions, wallet connections, or other observed phishing mechanics. However, this positive page-level presentation is outweighed by a serious external contradiction: the domain is recorded as blacklisted by two external sources, with multiple malicious detections in evaluated reputation checks. No page-level brand impersonation or phishing indicators were identified, so the available evidence does not establish that the site impersonates another named entity; it does establish that sensitive interaction is not appropriate on the current evidence.
- The homepage identifies PEZ COLOMBIA LTDA and describes tropical-fish export, catalogue, facility, and research activities.
- Automated behavior testing observed no login form, hidden form, wallet connection, wallet-drainer behavior, clipboard hijacking, or suspicious inline scripts.
- External reputation checks recorded 6 malicious detections and an external blacklist status.
- The archive record spans 18 years, with first recorded presence on 2008-02-17 and last recorded presence on 2025-09-07.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The company, about, facilities, catalogue, and contact content presents an apparent commercial identity, but the real-world operator is not independently verified by the supplied evidence. The site content does not state a licensing authority or registration number; for an exporter, the applicable corporate, trade, and animal-import/export permissions therefore remain a transparency and verification gap rather than proof of wrongdoing. The long-established registration, recognizable business-specific content, and valid transport encryption provide limited legitimacy context, but they do not offset the external reputation contradiction.
- The site’s homepage publishes the legal-style name “PEZ COLOMBIA LTDA,” a Bogotá address, telephone/WhatsApp contact channels, and social links.
- The domain was registered in 2007 (~18.83 years old) through Wild West Domains, LLC.
- Hosted on AS51167 (CONTABO - Contabo GmbH, DE); the resolved hosting country is US.
- TLS certificate issued by YR1 (DV), valid to 2026-09-30.
What to Verify Next
Before any order, advance payment, shipment arrangement, or sharing of business information, independently confirm PEZ COLOMBIA LTDA through the relevant Colombian corporate and trade registries. Confirm that the proposed exporter can provide current documentation for the applicable fish-export, customs, and destination-country requirements, and validate the business address and contact channels through an offline or independently sourced route. Payment should be limited to a method offering documented commercial dispute and recovery protections.
- The company page and homepage provide an apparent legal name and business address but do not supply an independently validated registration reference.
- The catalogue and contact pages describe commercial fish sales and export inquiries without presenting licensing documentation.
- The supplied evidence records no sensitive web form or authenticated account workflow, so transaction verification must occur through independent business documentation and protected payment procedures.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is low trust with elevated risk for sensitive interaction. The site appears commercially plausible at the content level, but the external malicious-detection and blacklist signals create a material contradiction that prevents the website from being treated as trustworthy for transactions or other sensitive activity.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to 38.242.138.9 on Contabo infrastructure, AS51167, with no detected CDN or WAF edge layer and one likely origin address. This provides limited protective separation from the origin; automated DNS heuristics also noted fast-flux-like and infrastructure-fragmentation characteristics, although those heuristics are not independently confirmed.
Closing Assessment
Passive review may be retained for research purposes, but sensitive interaction should be withheld unless independent business verification and transaction safeguards produce satisfactory results.
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, behaviour in a sandbox, 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 - A large share of what the page loaded came from other domains.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_EXTERNAL_RATIO_MODERATE - 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 | 80/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 40% |
- Trusted social count=4
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 pezcolombia.com.
- The request stayed on pezcolombia.com. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Wild West Domains, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by ui-dns.biz, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-10-24. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2008-02-17. Clear
- It is hosted on CONTABO, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Wild West Domains, LLC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CONTABO - Contabo GmbH, DE |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 38.242.138.9 |
| Name servers | NS1045.UI-DNS.BIZ, NS1045.UI-DNS.COM, NS1045.UI-DNS.DE, NS1045.UI-DNS.ORG |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-30 |
| Domain age | 18.83 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-10-24 |
| Archive first seen | 2008-02-17 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 6 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about pezcolombia.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.