IS THIS A SCAM?
Paste the text, the email, the DM — whatever landed. You'll get a plain-English read on what it is, whether it matters, and the one thing to do about it.
FIRST ONE FREE. NO SIGNUP.
WHAT YOU GET BACK
WHAT IS IT?
Plain English. No jargon, no runaround.
DOES IT MATTER?
The real stakes — what happens if you don't.
WHAT NOW?
One clear step. Not a maybe.
CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
Yep — draft it, report it, or set a reminder.
WHAT THESE USUALLY LOOK LIKE
A delivery that needs a small fee
A parcel is held, and it needs $1.95 to release. Real carriers don't collect a redelivery fee by text, and the amount is small on purpose — it's low enough that you'd rather pay than argue.
An unpaid toll
A toll authority you may not even drive through, with a link that isn't the agency's real domain. The tell is usually the domain, not the message.
Your bank, asking you to confirm it wasn't you
A charge you don't recognise, and a number to call. The number is theirs. A real bank asks you to call the number on your card.
A wrong number that keeps talking
It opens as a mistake — “Hi, is this Jenny?” — and turns friendly. This is the long-run version, and it ends at an investment app.
A job that pays too well for the work
Product reviewing, package forwarding, data entry at $40/hr. The interview happens entirely on a messaging app, and at some point there's a cheque to deposit.
Someone official who needs it settled today
Tax office, immigration, a warrant, a utility about to disconnect you. The urgency is the product. No real agency demands payment inside the hour.
None of these are a checklist to score yourself against. They're the shapes these take — and the reason a real answer has to read your actual message rather than match it to a list.
THE PART OTHER CHECKERS SKIP
Most scam checkers return a verdict and stop. Knowing it's a scam was never the hard part — you already suspected, which is why you're here. The hard part is the next hour: who to tell, whether your account is exposed, what to say to the bank, and whether any of it needs doing today.
So this one keeps going. It reports it, drafts the message, or sets you a reminder to check the statement in a week — whichever the answer actually calls for.
SOMETIMES IT ISN'T ONE
Plenty of real letters and real messages read like scams. Debt collectors, tax offices and insurers all write badly and all sound threatening. Being told "this is fine, but here's the deadline" is a useful answer too.
And when it genuinely can't tell, it says I DON'T KNOW rather than picking one. On anything with money or legal weight behind it, it points you at a real person instead.
WE DON'T KEEP IT
Whatever you send goes to the model for that one request and is then dropped. File bytes are never stored — only the filename. The privacy policy spells out the rest.
QUESTIONS
- Is it free?
- Your first one is free with no account. After that a free account gets you three a day.
- Do you keep my message?
- No. The text, image or file goes to the model for that one request and is dropped — only the filename is ever stored. Nothing you paste here is kept as a file.
- What if you're not sure?
- Then it says so. It's allowed to answer I DON'T KNOW, and when the risk is high it tells you to check with a real person instead of guessing at you.
- Can you tell me who to report it to?
- Yes — that's the part most checkers skip. It works out where this kind of thing gets reported and drafts the message, so reporting it is one step rather than an afternoon.