Verdict
yellowsubtrading.co.za 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 | Retail ecommerce site 'Yellow Sub Trading' offering apparel and accessories in South Africa with product listings, buy-now-pay-later options, shipping and return policies, and account/email signup prompts. |
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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 | 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 | 8.0 years oldRegistered history | Clear |
| Web archive | Archived since 2019161 snapshots | Clear |
| Certificate | Encrypted connectionIssued by YE2 | 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).
- Public web-archive history exists since 2019.
- No flags from the reputation services TrustSniffer consulted at assessment time.
Full analysis
What this website is
Yellow Sub Trading is an online South African fashion retailer presenting women’s dresses, shoes, jumpsuits, matching sets, formalwear, tops, bags, headwear, sunglasses, scarves, waist trainers and belts, with product purchasing, express shipping, returns and buy-now-pay-later options supported by account and email-signup functions.
Scam/Impersonation Risk
No contradictions were observed: the site is not identified as impersonating another brand, phishing, or matching a confirmed malicious reputation. The homepage and checkout experience are consistent with a conventional retail storefront, and the published behavioral telemetry showing suspicious inline scripts, non-whitelisted requests, DOM changes and console errors is better understood as implementation or third-party commerce complexity than as evidence of deception; importantly, no wallet connection, wallet-draining behavior, hidden sensitive forms, password-exfiltration form, cloaking, or clipboard hijacking was detected. The operator’s real-world identity remains unverified, so the legitimacy conclusion is evidence-consistent rather than identity-proven.
- The homepage is categorized as an online retail/fashion storefront and contains no detected brand-impersonation or phishing indicators.
- Domain registration evidence records creation on 2018-08-29, making the domain approximately 7.96 years old.
- Historical records contain 161 snapshots spanning 2019–2026, with 8 years tracked and no suspicious repurposing identified.
- External reputation checks recorded 0 malicious detections, 0 suspicious detections, and no confirmed abuse block.
Regulatory Verification Notes
The site presents as a consumer fashion merchant rather than a financial or otherwise regulated service. Its shipping, return and exchange content provides ordinary retail-policy disclosures, but the reviewed pages do not present a regulatory licence number or regulated-entity claim; this is a transparency item for merchant due diligence, not evidence of a scam. The name “YELLOW SUB TRADING” appears in the domain-registration record and the registrar is EPAG Domainservices, but that registration association does not independently prove the identity or legal status of the operating business. No matching broker-warning record was identified in the available third-party context.
- The homepage and retail-policy pages describe clothing and accessories sales, shipping, returns and exchanges rather than a regulated financial offering.
- Domain-registration telemetry lists registrar EPAG Domainservices and registrant organization YELLOW SUB TRADING.
- Hosting telemetry records AS13335, CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US.
- The site’s TLS certificate is issued by YE2, uses Domain Validation (DV), and is valid to 2026-10-26.
What to Verify Next
Before credential or payment interactions, an independent merchant-identity check should reconcile the business name shown on the site, checkout records and payment receipt. The return and exchange terms should be reviewed for eligibility, timelines and exclusions, while the payment method should be confirmed to provide appropriate buyer or payment-protection remedies. Contact details should also be confirmed through an independently sourced channel rather than relying solely on information presented on the website.
- Compare the merchant identity shown on the About, Contact and checkout pages with the name appearing on the payment receipt.
- Review the shipping and return-policy pages before placing an order.
- Confirm the protections and dispute process attached to the selected buy-now-pay-later or payment method.
- Validate official contact channels through an independent business source.
Summary Verdict
The website has a high-trust, low-risk posture and the available evidence is consistent with an established, apparently legitimate online retailer. The assessment supports normal browsing and ordinary site interaction, while the operator’s independent real-world identity remains unverified.
Infrastructure Integrity
The site is protected by Cloudflare CDN/WAF infrastructure, with observed traffic terminating on edge addresses and no origin candidate identified. This reduces direct exposure of the underlying server and is a useful mitigating control, but it is not proof of merchant legitimacy or ownership.
Closing Assessment
Proceed with ordinary retail use after completing the independent merchant-identity, returns and payment-protection checks appropriate to the value and sensitivity of the transaction.
Written analysis generated 2026-08-11 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 yellowsubtrading.co.za.
- The request stayed on yellowsubtrading.co.za. It was not redirected to another domain. Clear
- Registration is published under EPAG Domainservices. Clear
- DNS for this domain is served by googledomains.com, across 4 name servers. Noted
- The registration is paid up to 2026-08-29. Noted
- The earliest public archive of this site is from 2019-08-18. Clear
- It is hosted on CLOUDFLARENET, from a server in CA. Noted
Domain intelligence
| Registrar | EPAG Domainservices |
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| Hosting | CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US |
| Country | CA |
| Server IP | 2620:127:f00f:c:: |
| Name servers | ns-cloud-b1.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b3.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b4.googledomains.com, ns-cloud-b2.googledomains.com |
| SSL issuer | YE2 |
| SSL expiry | 2026-10-26 |
| Domain age | 7.96 years (continuous registration) |
| Domain expiry | 2026-08-29 |
| Archive first seen | 2019-08-18 |
| Archive snapshots | 161 |
| 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 yellowsubtrading.co.za 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.