Is this a scam?

Send us the message and we'll tell you — scam or safe, in plain English, with the exact thing that gave it away.

It's free, there's nothing to sign up for, and no question is too small. If it made you pause, that instinct was worth listening to.

1. Show us what you got

A screenshot is easiest. If you can also paste the words, we can check it against known scam patterns straight away.

or drag a picture in. On a phone, this opens your camera roll.

Up to 6 pictures or PDFs, 10MB each

Paste the message (optional, but it lets us check instantly)

How did it reach you?

Who did it say it was from?

2. Has anything happened yet?

Please be honest — nobody here is judging, and it changes what you should do in the next hour.

3. Where should we send the answer?

Email *

Your name (optional)

Phone (optional — if you'd rather we call)

Your screenshots are stored privately and are only ever opened by our reviewer. We never publish them, and we never sell or share anything you send. Feel free to black out account numbers first.

We need an email address and either a screenshot or the message text.

How it works

Three steps. No jargon.

Send the screenshot

Upload a picture of the text, email, or message. No account needed, no forms to fill in, no explaining yourself.

We check it straight away

If you paste the wording, we scan it immediately against the fraud patterns we teach — payment demands, fake urgency, spoofed senders, disguised links.

A person gives you the answer

Software misses the clever ones, so a human reads every submission and replies in plain English — scam or not, and exactly what to do next.

One promise about the automatic check: it can tell you when something matches a known scam, but it will never tell you a message is safe. The scams that cost people the most are the ones written carefully enough to pass an automatic scan. That is exactly why a person reads every single one.

What we check

Anything that made you stop and wonder. There is no such thing as a silly one — we'd far rather look at ten real messages than miss one scam.

Texts claiming a package needs a small fee
Emails saying your account is locked or suspended
Calls from a “grandchild” who needs money urgently
Invoices where the bank details suddenly changed
Job offers that pay far too well
Anything asking for gift cards, wires, or a code

If money already moved

Don't wait on us. Call your bank now and ask them to stop or reverse it, then report it at reportfraud.ftc.gov. Speed matters more than anything else in the first few hours. Tick the box in the form above and we'll show you the full list immediately.

And please don't feel embarrassed. These are engineered by professionals to work on careful people. Being targeted is not the same as being foolish.

Learn to spot them yourself

Checking with us is the safety net. The course teaches you the tells so you catch the next one on your own — and so does our free workshop.

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