Verdict
safefuturesct.org 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 | Nonprofit organization website (Safe Futures) providing resources and services for survivors of domestic violence, prominently displaying a 24/7 hotline, service descriptions, volunteer and donation options, and contact 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 | 2 flagged itVirusTotal | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listedGoogle | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 100% confidenceAbuseIPDB, 55 reports; shared hosting inflates reports | Risk |
| Domain age | 14 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013Public history exists | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE1 | 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 2013.
- At least one reputation service TrustSniffer consulted had flagged this domain at assessment time.
Full analysis
Overview
Safe Futures is presented as a nonprofit domestic-violence support organization offering a 24/7 crisis hotline, shelter and transitional housing, counseling, court-related assistance, prevention programs, volunteering, and donation or legacy-giving opportunities.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
Confirmed contradiction signals require a security-forward posture. External intelligence recorded malicious detections and confirmed blacklist presence for the domain, while behavioral inspection identified hidden forms across both observed runs, substantial DOM changes after interaction, and suspicious external network activity. The page content itself is consistent with a domestic-violence charity and showed no explicit brand-impersonation indicators, so the available evidence does not establish that the nonprofit content is itself fraudulent; however, the reputation findings materially outweigh the benign presentation for sensitive interactions. Abuse reports associated with the observed IP concern shared infrastructure attributed to WPEngine, Inc.; that attribution does not independently identify the site operator, but it remains an adverse supporting signal alongside the blacklist findings.
- The homepage presents Safe Futures as a domestic-violence support service with a 24/7 hotline, shelter, counseling, and donation calls to action.
- Behavioral inspection recorded hidden forms in 2 of 2 runs, with a maximum post-interaction DOM difference of 942.
- External reputation checks recorded 2 malicious and 2 suspicious detections and a confirmed blacklist result.
- The observed IP, 141.193.213.10, had 55 abuse reports attributed to shared WPEngine, Inc. infrastructure with a confidence score of 100.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site's available content describes a nonprofit model funded through donations, fundraising, legacy giving, and grants, and provides pages for its mission, leadership, history, services, and contact information. It does not claim a license or display a registration number in the supplied content, leaving the charitable entity and donation arrangements independently unverified. The identity-verification status remains unverified, and the available disclosure state is unclear; the site's stated mission should therefore be treated as an on-page representation rather than proof of the real-world operator. Technical controls provide some baseline integrity: the domain is long-established and registered through GoDaddy.com, LLC, while the transport certificate is valid but domain-validated only.
- The homepage navigation identifies “About Us,” “Leadership Team,” “Our Mission,” “Our History,” “Services,” “Giving,” and “Contact Us” pages.
- Registered 2012-06-08T19:28:15Z; age 14.21 years; registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC; expiration 2028-06-08T19:28:15Z.
- TLS certificate issued by YE1 with DV validation, valid to 2026-11-06T01:01:37+00:00.
- The supplied business-model analysis records no claimed license authority or license number.
What to Verify Next
Before any donation, submission of personal information, or other sensitive interaction, an independent charitable or corporate registry should be used to confirm the organization’s legal name and active status. The hotline and physical service details should be confirmed through an independently sourced telephone or institutional channel rather than relying solely on the website. Donation beneficiaries, payment destinations, and receipts should also be checked against the verified entity before funds are transferred.
- The site's service pages describe emergency shelter, counseling, court services, housing, and a 24-hour support line.
- The giving area includes general donations, item donations, special funds, and legacy giving.
- The contact area supplies organizational contact information that can be compared with an independently obtained institutional record.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a coherent charitable-service narrative, but the overall trust posture is critical because confirmed external threat and blacklist signals are reinforced by adverse runtime behavior. The apparent nonprofit legitimacy is not sufficient to support trust in sensitive interactions, and the real-world operator identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with the observed edge endpoint served through AS209242, CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM – Cloudflare London, LLC, US. The origin was not observable in the supplied analysis. This edge protection can reduce direct exposure of the origin and improve resilience, but it is only a mitigating infrastructure characteristic and does not establish legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
A prospective user should limit activity to non-sensitive review until the organization, contact channels, and payment beneficiary have been independently confirmed; credentials, personal information, and financial transactions should not be submitted on the basis of the website alone.
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.
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 page contained a form a visitor cannot see.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_HIDDEN_FORMS - The structure of the page changed sharply while it was loading.Behaviour in a sandbox
rule:BEHAV_DOM_DENSITY_SPIKE
Signals weighed against the site
- AbuseIPDB: 55 reports on hosting IP 141.193.213.10 (WPEngine, Inc., Content Delivery Network), 100% confidence. The reports are attributed to shared infrastructure, not specifically to this website.
Identity verification
| Status | UNVERIFIED |
|---|---|
| Identity score | 30/100 |
| Identity verification confidence | 50% |
- 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 safefuturesct.org.
- The request stayed on safefuturesct.org. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under GoDaddy.com, LLC. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2028-06-08. Clear
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-02-24. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | GoDaddy.com, LLC |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARESPECTRUM - Cloudflare London, LLC, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 141.193.213.10 |
| Name servers | braden.ns.cloudflare.com, pat.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | YE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-06 |
| Domain age | 14.21 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2028-06-08 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-02-24 |
| Archive snapshots | Not counted (archive lookup incomplete) |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 2 flagged | AbuseIPDB: 100% confidence, 55 reports | Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |
About this assessment
A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about safefuturesct.org 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.