Message check
Paste the message you received — a text, an email, a WhatsApp or a message you found on a marketplace. You get one sentence telling you what to do about it, and the reason behind it.
Every other checker on this site runs inside your browser and never sends us the thing you paste. This one cannot: the useful answer to “is this a scam” is how many other people have already sent us the same message, and that count only exists if the messages arrive somewhere they can be compared.
So the text of what you paste goes to our server. What is kept is a fingerprint — the shape of the message with numbers, links and addresses set aside — together with a counter and the verdict. The text itself is not saved, and the table it would be saved in has no column for it.
It reads the shape of a message. It does not know whether a company is real, it cannot see who actually sent something, and a fraud written this morning may look nothing like the ones we already know. “Nothing matched” is not a clean bill of health — it means this message did not look like the patterns we hold.
There is a version of this check that reads the message inside your own browser and sends nothing. It knows fewer fraud patterns than this page does, because it holds none of the record that builds up here — but it costs you nothing to prefer it, and the answer stays on your machine.
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Four things that help more than knowing the verdict.
Both are chosen by the sender. If the message claims to be from a company you use, close it and open that company's app or type their address yourself. The whole fraud depends on you using their route rather than yours, so any real message survives being verified this way — and a fake one falls apart.
Nobody legitimate asks you for a one-time code: not a bank, not a courier, not a marketplace, not the police. Somebody asking for one is either using it or is about to. The same is true of a password, a PIN and a photo of your card.
These messages arrive in waves and are sent to lists. A neighbour, a colleague or a parent holding the same message benefits more from one sentence from you than from any tool — and they will believe you when they would not believe a warning.
Call your bank on the number on the back of your card and say you were defrauded. Ask them to recall the transfer or block the card. Report it to the police as well; a bank is far more likely to help when there is a report, and the first hours are the ones that decide whether the money comes back.
Call your bank now, using the number printed on the back of your card — not a number from the message. Say you were defrauded, ask them to block the card or recall the payment, and report it to the police the same day. Speed matters far more here than certainty: a transfer can still be stopped in the first hours, and almost never after.