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Scam Message Check

Paste or snap a suspicious message — see what stands out before you click, pay or reply.

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  • Try 1 time a day without signing up
  • Failed runs are refunded
  • Results kept for 1 day

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How it works

  1. Get your input ready

    You'll need: a photo and some text.

  2. Check the price, then run

    The price is shown before you tap. If a run fails, the credits go back.

  3. Get your result

    Copy, download or share it. Signed-in runs are saved to your history.

Check a suspicious message before you click it

A text says your bank account will be charged today. An email says your password expires in 24 hours. A delivery note asks you to pay a small customs fee. Most of us know the feeling: something seems off, but it might be real — and the message counts on you deciding in a hurry.

Scam Message Check gives you a calmer way to look first. Upload a screenshot of the message, or paste its words, and get a plain-English advisory about what the message is doing — without opening any link and without contacting anyone.

What you get

  • A risk level you can act on — high, worth a close look, or low so far — phrased as advice, never as a verdict.
  • Each suspicious point, quoted word for word. Every point in the report carries the exact words from your own message that raise it, side by side with a plain explanation, so you can check each one yourself.
  • The patterns behind the wording — pretend-to-be-your-bank, invented deadlines, payment or codes by unusual routes, web addresses that do not match who the sender claims to be, prizes and problems you never asked for.
  • Where to report it — the official places (FTC, IC3, 7726 and more), with a reminder to look up contact details yourself instead of using any number or link from the message.

Built to be checked, not trusted blindly

Everything the tool reads from your screenshot is shown back to you at the top of the report, and anything that was hard to read is marked To verify — you correct it by editing your input and running the tool again. The advisory never tells you a message definitely is or is not a scam: it is a reference to help you and your family slow a message down, and it does not replace official or professional judgment. If nothing suspicious turns up, the report says plainly that this is not the same as safe.

Privacy that matches the job

Your screenshot and pasted text are used only to produce the report. The screenshot file is deleted within a day of processing, and the task leaves your history after one day — copy anything you want to keep. No link is ever opened, no one is contacted, and your message is not sent to the sender or shared beyond the AI model provider that writes the report.

Made for the whole family

The wording is plain and unhurried, for older adults reading on their own and for adult children checking a message on a parent's behalf. If a message involves money, passwords or personal details, the report's advice is always the same: pause, look up the official channel yourself, and check before you click.

Questions

Can this tool tell me for sure whether a message is a scam?

No — and a tool that claims to would be overpromising. This tool reads your message and produces a risk advisory: it points at the exact words that match known pressure patterns (fake urgency, impersonation, odd payment routes, lookalike links) and explains each one in plain words. It never states that a message definitely is or is not a scam, and it does not replace official or professional judgment. Treat it as a calm second opinion that helps you check before you click.

Does the tool open the links in my message?

No. Links are only read as text. Opening a suspicious address can tip off scammers or expose your device, so the tool never visits, loads or previews any link — it only analyses the words in the message, including the address itself.

What does "To verify" mean in my report?

When a line in your screenshot was small, blurry or partly cut off, the machine reading is marked To verify so you do not rely on a possible misreading. To correct it, edit your input — type the line in the message box, or upload a clearer screenshot — and run the tool again.

What if it finds nothing suspicious?

Then the report says so plainly — and reminds you that finding nothing is not the same as the message being safe. New scams appear all the time, and an ordinary-looking message can still be part of one. If anything about the message bothers you, verify it through the organisation's official channels: look up the phone number or website yourself (never use contact details from the message) before you click, pay or reply.

What happens to my screenshot and text?

They are used only to produce your report. The screenshot file is deleted within a day of processing, and the task leaves your history after one day, so copy anything you want to keep. The tool never opens links or contacts anyone; your message is not sent to the sender, and the only service that processes it is the AI model provider that writes the report.

How do I report a scam message?

The report includes official places to report, such as the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), the FBI's IC3 (ic3.gov) and the 7726 spam-forwarding number for text messages in the US and UK. One rule matters more than any single address: never use the phone numbers, links or reply addresses inside the suspicious message itself — look up the official channel yourself.

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