Verdict
rio.rj.gov.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 | Official Rio de Janeiro City Hall website providing municipal information, services, news, transparency portals and contact details. Contains cookie consent and accessibility features; no evident login or transaction forms on the captured 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 | 31 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 19975000 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: more than 10 years (registration continuity).
- Public web-archive history exists since 1997.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
The website is the Rio de Janeiro City Hall’s municipal public-service portal, presenting city news, public services, transparency and public-data resources, tourism information, tax and permit guidance, accessibility features, and citizen contact channels rather than a commercial or investment offering.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent municipal-government purpose, identifies Rio de Janeiro City Hall, links to established social platforms, and contains no evident credential-harvesting, payment, cryptocurrency, or brand-impersonation indicators. Behavioral testing detected hidden forms, but the captured page contained no login or sensitive form, and no password data was sent to an external destination; this is therefore a limited implementation signal rather than evidence of impersonation. The available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate public-sector website, although the real-world operator identity is not independently verified.
- The homepage is titled “Rio de Janeiro City Hall” and describes municipal services, news, transparency, tourism, taxes, permits, accessibility, and citizen contact.
- The domain was registered on 1996-01-29 and is 30.56 years old.
- Archive records contain 5000 snapshots spanning 1997–2025, covering 29 years.
- External reputation checks found no malicious or suspicious classification, no blacklist match, and no reported abuse associated with the observed hosting address.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site’s apparent business model is municipal administration and citizen service, so a financial-services license is not expected for the functions presented. The homepage provides transparency and public-service content, but the available material does not independently establish every aspect of the operating entity beyond the site’s own institutional presentation. This is an identity-assurance limitation, not an identity contradiction or evidence of a scam. A long-established domain, sustained archival continuity, government-oriented content, and a clean external reputation materially support the site’s apparent legitimacy. Its traffic footprint is also established, and no broker-related reputational match was identified.
- The resolved hosting infrastructure is AS262714, Empresa Municipal de Informatica s/a, Brazil; the domain is registered through the LACNIC regional registry.
- The site uses an OV TLS certificate issued by GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1, with subject organization EMPRESA MUNICIPAL DE INFORMATICA SA - IPLANRIO, valid through 2027-02-10.
- The homepage capture returned municipal information, transparency resources, and citizen-service content without a sensitive transaction form.
- The site uses the government-oriented gov.br namespace and links to Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter profiles.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions associated with any linked municipal service, the relevant service destination should be reached through an independently confirmed city-government communication or official municipal directory. Any request for payment should be checked against the applicable municipal procedure, with payment-protection controls retained. Contact and support channels should be confirmed through an independent offline route, and privacy and cookie notices should be reviewed before enabling optional tracking.
- The homepage includes transparency, public-service, accessibility, and contact functions suitable for independent cross-checking.
- The captured page presented cookie-consent controls and a linked cookie policy.
- No login, password, or sensitive transaction form was present in the captured homepage.
Summary Verdict
Available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate municipal website and supports a high-trust, low-risk posture. No scam, phishing, impersonation, or identity-contradiction indicators were observed, while operator identity remains likely rather than independently proven.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site resolves directly to infrastructure associated with AS262714, Empresa Municipal de Informatica s/a, Brazil, with one observed origin address and no detected CDN or edge-IP layer. This is a straightforward municipal-hosting posture rather than a concealment signal; the transport certificate identified above provides the principal observed protection for connections.
Closing Assessment
Ordinary use is proportionate to the assessed posture, with independent confirmation of the specific service destination and normal payment-protection checks retained before any credential or payment submission.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-13 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 | LIKELY |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- Identity verified on page
- Trusted social count=3
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 rio.rj.gov.br.
- The request for rio.rj.gov.br ended on en.prefeitura.rio, a different domain. Watch
- DNS for this domain is served by 128.100, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 1997-03-27. Clear
- It is hosted on AS262714, from a server in BR. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Not available |
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| Hosting | AS262714 - Empresa Municipal de Informatica s/a, BR |
| Country | BR |
| Server IP | 187.111.98.123 |
| Name servers | xexeu.proderj.rj.gov.br 187.62.128.100, uipia.proderj.rj.gov.br 187.111.97.189, tachuri.proderj.rj.gov.br 187.62.128.80, condor.proderj.rj.gov.br 187.62.128.1 |
| SSL issuer | GeoTrust TLS RSA CA G1 |
| SSL expiry | 2027-02-10 |
| Domain age | 30.56 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | Not available |
| Archive first seen | 1997-03-27 |
| Archive snapshots | 5000 |
| 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 rio.rj.gov.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.