Verdict
ubuy.co.tz 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 | Ubuy Tanzania is a large international online shopping storefront offering imported products across electronics, fashion, supplements, household goods, automotive supplies, toys, and other categories, with global shipping and multiple payment options. |
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Evidence status and limitations
Evidence completeness: UNKNOWN
- 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 | 7.1 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Never archivedNo public history of this site | Watch |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by WE1 | Noted |
The page as captured
No screenshot is retained for this report.
Key findings
- Automated classification: Not Scam.
- Domain age: 3 to 10 years (registration continuity).
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
- The operator behind the site could not be independently connected to a real-world brand or person.
Full analysis
Overview
Ubuy Tanzania is an established cross-border ecommerce storefront offering imported electronics, fashion, supplements, household goods, automotive supplies, toys, and other consumer products, with global shipping, multiple payment options, memberships, affiliates, gift cards, and related shopping services.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed. The homepage presents a coherent ecommerce model, including product categories, international fulfillment, secure checkout, customer support, returns, and promotional offers, without phishing, brand-impersonation, or other fraud indicators. External reputation checks were clean, and the domain has a long-established registration history.
- Homepage: Identified as an international online shopping store serving Tanzania with imported consumer goods and global shipping.
- Homepage: No phishing, impersonation, hidden-form, wallet, or sensitive-form indicators were observed.
- Domain registration: Registered 2019-06-14; approximately 7.14 years old.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as a commercial ecommerce platform rather than a disclosed regulated financial service. No specific license or registration number was identified in the supplied site content; this is a limited transparency point for corporate and consumer-protection verification, not evidence of deception. The published business model and policy-oriented content are consistent with cross-border retail commerce.
- Homepage: States that products are sourced through global stores and offers international delivery and payment options.
- Site content: Presents support, delivery, payment, refund, and return-policy topics.
- Hosting and transport: Served through AS13335 (Cloudflare); TLS uses issuer WE1 with DV validation and is valid until 2026-09-09.
- Domain registration: Registrar identified as REG-LEX, with expiry on 2027-06-13.
What to Verify Next
For higher-value procurement, confirm the applicable merchant, delivery, refund, import-duty, and consumer-protection terms on the relevant policy pages, and validate official support channels through an independently sourced business route.
- Site content: Includes delivery, payment, return-policy, and customer-support information.
- Homepage: Offers account creation, order tracking, wishlists, and a stated money-back guarantee.
- Business model: Includes imported-goods fulfillment, memberships, affiliates, and gift cards, creating several transaction and service terms to review.
Summary Verdict
The website presents as a legitimate, established, and trustworthy ecommerce business with a coherent commercial purpose and no observed contradiction or confirmed fraud signal. Normal interaction, including account login and standard shopping use, is appropriate.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection places observed traffic on edge infrastructure rather than exposing an origin address, providing a meaningful layer of network resilience and exposure reduction. This infrastructure is a mitigating control, not independent proof of business legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Standard shopping and account activities are appropriate, with ordinary review of product, delivery, payment, and refund terms before material purchases.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-02 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 | 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 ubuy.co.tz.
- The request stayed on ubuy.co.tz. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under REG-LEX. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-13. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | REG-LEX |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6812:7db |
| Name servers | bella.ns.cloudflare.com, carl.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-09 |
| Domain age | 7.1 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-13 |
| Archive first seen | Not available |
| Archive snapshots | 0 |
| 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 ubuy.co.tz 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.