---
title: "Is tangentwaves.com a Scam? Trust Score 5/100"
source: TrustSniffer
type: Website trust & fraud report
subject: "tangentwaves.com"
verdict: "Critical Risk"
title: "Is tangentwaves.com a Scam? Trust Score 5/100"
trust_score: 5
classification_confidence: 75
canonical_url: https://trustsniffer.com/report/tangentwaves.com
assessed: 2026-09-22
---

# Is tangentwaves.com a scam? TrustSniffer's high-risk assessment: 5/100

## Verdict


**Verdict: Critical Risk, trust score 5/100.** tangentwaves.com shows high-risk / scam indicators.

This assessment found strong scam indicators. Do not pay, sign in, or share personal details with this site.

Labels: Sensitive Interaction Risk, Governance Risk

Assessed 2026-09-22 by automated analysis. Classification confidence 75%.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| What this site appears to be | Tangent Waves is a Nepal-based consultancy offering business development, training, mentoring, bootcamps, and events. The site contains service descriptions, testimonials, event listings, contact details (address and phone), and a 'Book Our Services' call-to-action. No login or payment flows are present 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 | 15 flagged it (VirusTotal) | Risk |
| Google Safe Browsing | Not listed (Google) | Clear |
| Abuse reports on the host | 0 reports (AbuseIPDB; shared hosting inflates this count) | Noted |
| Domain age | 10 years old (Registered history) | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2013 (747 snapshots) | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connection (Issued by YR1) | Noted |

## The page as captured


![Screenshot of the tangentwaves.com homepage captured during the TrustSniffer assessment](https://trustsniffer.com/outputs/tangentwaves.com/screenshots/first.png)

_What tangentwaves.com served when TrustSniffer captured it on 2026-09-22. The page may look different now._

## 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


### Security Alert

Fortinet, Sophos flagged this site in external intelligence checks, indicating elevated compromise/scam exposure that requires immediate caution.

Tangent Waves presents itself as a Nepal-based business consultancy serving startups, entrepreneurs, small businesses, and organizations through business development, resilience support, customized training, bootcamps, mentoring, events, and a “Book Our Services” call to action. Its apparent business model is fee-based professional consulting and training rather than an account-driven or transactional online platform.


### Scam/Impersonation Risk

The site’s stated consultancy purpose and captured pages do not display obvious credential-harvesting, payment, wallet, or login functionality, and no brand impersonation or conflicting legal identity was identified. However, this benign page presentation is outweighed by confirmed external threat indicators: the domain is blacklisted by multiple listed sources, and fifteen evaluated detections classified it as malicious, with two additional suspicious detections. This is a direct contradiction to the otherwise ordinary corporate presentation and supports a critical interaction-risk posture. The site’s historical presence is substantial, but that continuity does not neutralize the current reputation findings. Evidence:

- External reputation assessment recorded a confirmed blacklist with sources identified as VT and EXTERNAL_BLACKLIST.
- Fifteen malicious and two suspicious detections were recorded across the evaluated external reputation checks; Fortinet and Sophos were among the flagged vendors.
- Archive records show 747 snapshots spanning 2013–2026, covering 14 tracked years, with first observation on 2013-02-12 and latest observation on 2026-08-15.
- The homepage capture presented consultancy content without a login form, hidden sensitive form, wallet connection, or password submission flow.

### Regulatory Verification Notes

The site describes professional services and publishes an address, telephone contact, service descriptions, testimonials, events, and an “About Us” section, but the supplied content does not show a licensing authority, registration number, or independently verified operating entity. The site’s real-world operator therefore remains unverified, and its identity claims should not be treated as independently established. The absence of a broker-dataset match is only contextual and does not establish licensing or regulatory standing. Evidence:

- The homepage and service pages identify business development, customized training, bootcamps and accelerators, mentoring, resilience support, and events as core offerings.
- The contact and corporate-content pages provide an address and telephone details but no supplied license number or licensing authority.
- The site’s transport encryption uses a DV certificate issued by YR1, valid to 2026-11-07.

### What to Verify Next

Before any engagement, an independent party should confirm the consultancy’s legal existence, responsible principals, physical operating details, and any applicable Nepalese business or training-sector registration through authoritative registries rather than relying solely on the website. Contact details should be validated through an independently sourced channel, and any proposed service agreement should identify the contracting entity, refund terms, deliverables, payment recipient, and dispute mechanism. Given the external threat findings, credentials, sensitive documents, and financial information should not be submitted unless those checks produce clear, independently corroborated results. Evidence:

- Identity verification is recorded as unverified, with no independent identity signals supplied.
- The on-page disclosure state is unclear, while the business model is described as paid consultancy, training, mentoring, bootcamps, and events.
- The captured site contains no login form, sensitive form, or payment flow, so prospective engagement would require separate off-site contracting and payment checks.

### Summary Verdict

The website has a plausible consultancy presentation and a long technical and archival presence, but those positive characteristics are decisively outweighed by confirmed blacklist status and multiple malicious external detections. The resulting posture is critical interaction risk, with legitimacy appearing unverified rather than established.


### Infrastructure Integrity

The site resolves directly to a single likely origin rather than a CDN edge, with no CDN or WAF identified. It is hosted on AS31898, ORACLE-BMC-31898 operated by Oracle Corporation in the United States; this is a hosting fact and provides no independent assurance regarding the site operator. Evidence:

- Hosting infrastructure resolved to AS31898, ORACLE-BMC-31898 – Oracle Corporation, US.
- The resolved address was 192.185.137.139, with one unique address and one likely origin address identified.
- No CDN, WAF vendor, or edge-IP layer was detected.

### Closing Assessment

The appropriate institutional posture is to suspend credential, document, and financial interactions until independent identity, registration, and threat-reputation checks are satisfactorily resolved; any engagement should be limited to controlled, non-sensitive inquiry during that process.


_Written analysis generated 2026-09-22 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`)
- The page rewrote itself after it was interacted with, so what a visitor first sees is not what they end up on. (Behaviour in a sandbox `rule:BEHAV_DOM_DIFF_AFTER_INTERACTION`)
- 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


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| 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 tangentwaves.com.

- The request stayed on tangentwaves.com. It was not redirected to another domain. (Clear)
- Registration is published under WORLDWIDE DOMAIN REGISTRY LIMITED. (Clear)
- DNS for this domain is served by codeartsnepal.com, across 2 name servers. (Noted)
- The registration is paid up to 2027-05-25. (Noted)
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2013-02-12. (Clear)
- It is hosted on ORACLE-BMC-31898, from a server in US. (Noted)

## Domain intelligence


| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Registrar | WORLDWIDE DOMAIN REGISTRY LIMITED |
| Hosting | ORACLE-BMC-31898 - Oracle Corporation, US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 192.185.137.139 |
| Name servers | NS1.CODEARTSNEPAL.COM, NS2.CODEARTSNEPAL.COM |
| SSL issuer | YR1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-11-07 |
| Domain age | 10.33 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2027-05-25 |
| Archive first seen | 2013-02-12 |
| Archive snapshots | 747 |
| Reputation | VirusTotal: 15 flagged \| AbuseIPDB: 0 reports \| Google Safe Browsing: 0 matches |

## About this assessment


A trust score summarises the evidence TrustSniffer could collect about tangentwaves.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.

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*Source: [TrustSniffer](https://trustsniffer.com/report/tangentwaves.com) — independent automated trust & fraud analysis. Cite as https://trustsniffer.com/report/tangentwaves.com · assessed 2026-09-22.*