---
title: "Is rio.rj.gov.br Legit? Trust Score 90/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "rio.rj.gov.br"
verdict: "High Trust"
title: "Is rio.rj.gov.br Legit? Trust Score 90/100"
trust_score: 90
classification_confidence: 75
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/rio.rj.gov.br
assessed: 2026-08-13
---

# Is rio.rj.gov.br legit? TrustSniffer's high-trust assessment: 90/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: High Trust, trust score 90/100.** rio.rj.gov.br appears legitimate.

Our checks found nothing pointing to fraud. Ordinary care still applies when you pay or sign in.

Labels: Not Scam, Safe for Login, Low Risk

Assessed 2026-08-13 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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. |

## 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 | None flagged it (VirusTotal) | Clear |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 31 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 1997 (5000 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued 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.


Evidence:
- 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.


Evidence:
- 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.


Evidence:
- 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


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | Not available |
| 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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/rio.rj.gov.br) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/rio.rj.gov.br · assessed 2026-08-13.*