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Is snws.in legit or a scam?
Official CBSE school site for Shantiniketan World School Aligarh with 15-year-old domain and verified registration details.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
AI Security Analysis
The page presents itself as the website for a legitimate Indian school with contact details, admission info, and CBSE affiliation documents. Our research confirms the school is listed on the official CBSE portal with matching address, principal name, and trust registration. The domain age of 5437 days aligns with the school's 2010 founding date. No scam reports, complaints, or clone indicators were found anywhere. A handful of antivirus detections appear, but they conflict with the clear business registration and long-term online presence.
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Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for snws.in, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- - Domain snws.in hosts official site for Shantiniketan World School Aligarh (CBSE affiliation 2131537, founded July 2010, classes Play Group to XII)
- - Listed on official CBSE SARAS portal: http://www.snws.in, principal Saurabh Varshney, address Panchsheel Colony, Near PAC, Ramghat Road, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
- - Active promotional presence on Facebook (Shantiniketanworldschoolsocial) and Instagram with admissions ads for 2025-26 and board exam results posts
- - No scam, fraud, complaint, review, or Reddit mentions found in targeted searches for domain or school name
- - Domain age ~5437 days (~15 years); consistent with school establishment in 2010; hosts CBSE mandatory disclosure PDF with trust certificate links
- - No indicators of typosquatting or brand impersonation (e.g., no similarity to Google, PayPal, or other major brands)
CBSE-affiliated school (affiliation no. 2131537) established 2010, managed by Manav/Manas Sewa Samiti; mandatory public disclosure PDF available on site including trust/society registration
Our research found the domain hosts the verified site for Shantiniketan World School Aligarh (CBSE affiliation 2131537, established 2010). It appears on the official CBSE portal with matching principal and address details. Active Facebook and Instagram accounts promote admissions. No scam reports, complaints, or negative mentions were located in any searched sources.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Detected threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- Page impersonates Google on a non-official domain.
- Phone number listed (09639000111).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://snws.in/
- 2200https://snws.in/
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
3 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
- Page mentions Google (non-official domain).
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as malware / unwanted software.
- Google Safe Browsing flagged this as social engineering / phishing.
- Page mentions Google (non-official domain).
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with snws.in
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags snws.in as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — snws.in scored 1/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. snws.in presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 66 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- snws.in is 14.9 years old, registered on 7/15/2011 through GoDaddy. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 6 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged snws.in as malicious or suspicious (4 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- Yes. The major browser blocklist feeds flagged snws.in with the following threat categories: UNWANTED_SOFTWARE. This protects billions of browser users from visiting the site.
- snws.in resolves to an IP operated by Brander Group Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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