Verdict
ubuy.ke 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 Kenya is an established cross-border online shopping platform offering imported products from global stores across electronics, fashion, beauty, groceries, home goods, automotive, toys, and other categories. The page highlights discounts, international delivery, payment methods, customer support, returns, and mobile apps. |
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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 Kenya is an established cross-border ecommerce marketplace presenting imported electronics, fashion, beauty products, groceries, home goods, automotive items, toys, and other consumer goods, with international delivery, discounts, payment options, customer support, returns, and mobile applications.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No phishing, impersonation, blacklist, or conflicting-identity indicators were observed. The homepage presents a coherent ecommerce model, including product categories, global shipping, secure checkout, customer support, and returns, while behavioral testing found no login interception, hidden forms, wallet activity, cloaking, or clipboard manipulation. The overall evidence supports legitimate normal use.
- The homepage identifies a cross-border shopping service with imported consumer products and international delivery.
- The homepage states “100% Authentic,” “Secure Payments,” “100% Money Back Guarantee,” and “24/7 Support.”
- External reputation assessment recorded zero malicious and zero suspicious detections, with no blacklist hit.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site operates as a consumer ecommerce marketplace rather than presenting a regulated financial service. No financial license or registration claim is disclosed in the supplied site content; this is a transparency item for applicable commercial and consumer-protection requirements, not evidence of deception. Third-party broker intelligence produced no match.
- Domain registration: 2019-06-14, approximately 7.14 years old, through Lexregistration Limited.
- The site’s hosting infrastructure is served through AS13335, operated by Cloudflare, Inc.
- TLS is valid, issued by WE1 at DV validation level, with validity through 2026-09-09.
What to Verify Next
For material purchases, confirm the applicable merchant-of-record, consumer-protection terms, delivery obligations, and return conditions through the checkout and support processes. Where local law requires it, confirm the responsible commercial entity or registration with the relevant Kenyan registry.
- The homepage provides delivery, payment, customer-support, and returns information.
- The homepage promotes account creation, order tracking, memberships, gift cards, and promotional subscriptions.
Summary Verdict
The website presents a high-trust, established ecommerce posture supported by coherent commercial content, clean external reputation, mature domain history, and consistent technical operation. No contradictory identity or abuse signals were found.
Infrastructure Integrity
Cloudflare CDN/WAF protection is present, with observed traffic terminating on Cloudflare edge infrastructure rather than an exposed origin address. This reduces direct origin exposure and is a mitigating infrastructure signal, while not independently proving legitimacy.
Closing Assessment
Normal account login, browsing, and standard shopping interactions are appropriate; material purchases should follow ordinary payment-protection and record-retention practices.
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.ke.
- The request stayed on ubuy.ke. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under Lexregistration Limited. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by cloudflare.com, across 2 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2027-06-14. Noted
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in US. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | Lexregistration Limited |
|---|---|
| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | US |
| Server IP | 2606:4700::6812:186c |
| Name servers | yadiel.ns.cloudflare.com, april.ns.cloudflare.com |
| SSL issuer | WE1 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-09-09 |
| Domain age | 7.1 years |
| Domain expiry | 2027-06-14 |
| 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.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.