No anonymity signals
This IP is not flagged as an attacker, spam source, Tor exit, VPN, proxy, relay, bot, cloud provider or corporate gateway.
Associated location
Luanda, Angola (AO)
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Angola
-8.81466, 13.23018
Threat score
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This IP is not flagged as an attacker, spam source, Tor exit, VPN, proxy, relay, bot, cloud provider or corporate gateway.
Abuse contact
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Autonomous system
MSTelcom Mercury Serviços de Telecomunicações, S.A.R.L.
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Organization
MSTelcom Mercury Serviços de Telecomunicações, S.A.R.L.
Associated company
ISP · mstelcom.co.ao
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Network route
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Time zone
2026-10-21 14:26
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Africa/Luanda
UTC1.0
User agent string
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Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)
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"continent_code" : "AF",
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"country_name" : "Angola",
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"country_capital" : "Luanda",
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"confidence" : "high",
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"geoname_id" : "11776112",
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"name" : "Angolan Kwanza",
"symbol" : "Kz"
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"asn" : {
"organization" : "MSTelcom Mercury Serviços de Telecomunicações, S.A.R.L.",
"country" : "AO",
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"domain" : "mercury.ao",
"rir" : "AFRINIC",
"as_number" : "AS17400",
"date_allocated" : "2000-08-28"
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"is_relay" : false,
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"bot_type" : "",
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"is_spam" : false,
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},
"abuse" : {
"route" : "196.249.192.0/18",
"country" : "AO",
"name" : "Nelson Tavares",
"organization" : "",
"kind" : "individual",
"address" : "Rua Farol das Lagostas, Luanda, Angola",
"emails" : [ "nelson.tavares@sonangol.co.ao" ],
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},
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"type" : "Robot",
"version" : "1.0",
"version_major" : "1",
"device" : {
"name" : "Anthropic ClaudeBot",
"type" : "Robot",
"brand" : "Anthropic",
"cpu" : "Unknown"
},
"engine" : {
"name" : "ClaudeBot",
"type" : "Robot",
"version" : "1.0",
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},
"operating_system" : {
"name" : "Cloud",
"type" : "Cloud",
"version" : "??",
"build" : "??",
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}
}
Evaluation Checklist
What the data tells you about 196.249.236.49.
MSTelcom Mercury Serviços de Telecomunicações, S.A.R.L. operates AS17400, the autonomous system announcing this address. The associated company is MSTelcom Mercury Servicos de Telecomunicacoes, S.A.R.L; the reported network is 196.249.236.0/24.
View ASN APIIP location comes from routing, registry and measurement data. It can shift when MSTelcom Mercury Serviços de Telecomunicações, S.A.R.L. reassigns the block, so treat Ingombota as an estimate, not a fixed point.
View IP Location APIThe listed abuse contact is Nelson Tavares. Include the source IP, timestamps with a timezone, and relevant logs so the contact can investigate.
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