Verdict
ruarakahousingestate.co.ke shows high-risk / scam indicators.
This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.
| What this site appears to be | Official site for Ruaraka Housing Estate Limited presenting company history, mission, Safari Business Arcade property details, contact information and invitation to book site tours. |
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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 | 11 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reportsAbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count | Noted |
| Domain age | 11 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2016Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | 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 2016.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Security Alert
Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.
This website is the corporate information site of Ruaraka Housing Estate Limited, presenting the company’s history, mission, shareholder-oriented investment model, Safari Business Arcade commercial property, contact details, and an invitation to arrange site tours.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
The site’s visible content is consistent with a conventional Kenyan real-estate company and contains no observed login form, sensitive-data form, wallet function, or deceptive brand-impersonation indicator. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by a confirmed external blacklist status and multiple malicious detections, including detections associated with Fortinet and Sophos. The contradiction is therefore not an identity conflict within the pages, but a serious external reputation signal affecting the safety of sensitive interaction with the domain.
- The homepage presents Ruaraka Housing Estate Limited, its property-development purpose, Safari Business Arcade, shareholder information, and site-tour invitation.
- The contact and homepage flows contain no login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or external data-submission activity.
- External reputation telemetry recorded 11 malicious detections, with Fortinet and Sophos among the flagged vendors; blacklist sources were VT and an external blacklist.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The About Us, Our Team, Chairman’s Report, and Contact Us pages present a coherent corporate identity, including the stated establishment of the company in 2001, its shareholder structure, office location, telephone contact, and business activities. The pages do not provide a license, registration number, or independently verifiable regulatory authorization for the shareholder or dividend-related investment claims; this is a material verification gap rather than, by itself, proof of fraud. Identity linkage is assessed as likely but not independently verified, so the on-page company claims should not be treated as conclusive proof of the real-world operator. The domain and technical history provide supporting provenance signals, but they do not offset the external threat detections.
- Domain registration: 2016-01-08; age 10.62 years; registrar HOSTAFRICA EAC.
- Historical record: first seen 2016-01-13, last seen 2026-06-07, with 11 years tracked.
- The site is served on AS13335 by CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- TLS uses issuer WE1 with DV validation and is valid to 2026-10-04.
What to Verify Next
Before any investment, shareholder payment, property booking, or financial commitment, an independent party should confirm the company’s legal status and any applicable property, investment, or dividend-related authorization through the relevant Kenyan registries. The stated office and site-tour arrangements should be confirmed through an independently sourced corporate channel, and payment instructions should be matched to a verified legal entity and formal agreement. Any shareholder-return or dividend representation should be supported by audited documentation and terms identifying the responsible entity.
- The About Us and Chairman’s Report pages provide the basis for requesting independent confirmation of the company and shareholder arrangements.
- The Safari Business Arcade and Contact Us pages provide the operational basis for independently confirming the premises and tour arrangements.
- The site’s investment and dividend references justify obtaining formal contractual and financial documentation before payment.
Summary Verdict
The overall posture is critical and unsuitable for sensitive interaction. Although the website presents a coherent corporate profile and operates as a stable informational site, the confirmed blacklist status and malicious external detections create a decisive trust failure for credentials, financial activity, or other consequential engagement.
Infrastructure Integrity
The website is protected by Cloudflare’s CDN/WAF infrastructure, and all observed addresses were CDN edge servers on AS13335; the origin server was not observable in this analysis. This reduces direct exposure of the hosting environment but is only a mitigating infrastructure characteristic and does not establish site legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
The appropriate posture is passive viewing only; account login, credential submission, financial transfers, and other sensitive actions should not proceed unless the domain and the underlying company are independently cleared through trusted channels.
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, behaviour in a sandbox, external reputation.
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 - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE - 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 | 79/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 78% |
- 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 ruarakahousingestate.co.ke.
- The request stayed on ruarakahousingestate.co.ke. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under HOSTAFRICA EAC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-01-08. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2016-01-13. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | HOSTAFRICA EAC |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700:3034::6815:4f8 |
| Name servers | igor.ns.cloudflare.com, anna.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-04 |
| Domain age | 10.62 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-01-08 |
| Archive first seen | 2016-01-13 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 11 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 0 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about ruarakahousingestate.co.ke 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.