Terms of use
What this tool promises, and what it does not. Short, because you should be able to read it.
Last reviewed 28 August 2026
What it is
A free tool that reads a message you paste into it and tells you which parts of it look like a scam, along with guidance on what to do next. It is offered as it is, for general information.
What it is not
- Not a security control. It does not protect your phone, block anything, or stop a message arriving.
- Not financial, legal or security advice. If money is involved, speak to your bank and to the police.
- Not a reporting service. It explains how to report to 1930, the cybercrime portal and your bank. It does not report anything on your behalf, to anyone.
- Not a filter. It reads what you paste in and nothing more. It never touches your inbox.
- Not a guarantee. A Likely Safe verdict means nothing matched, not that a message is safe.
What it costs
Nothing, and there is no version that costs something. There are no adverts on it, no sponsored results, and no arrangement under which a bank, a telecom operator or anyone else can influence a verdict. A tool that tells you whom to distrust cannot be for sale to the people it might have to name.
Who it is for
Anyone who has been sent a message they are unsure about. There is no account, so there is no age check and no eligibility to prove. It is written for messages in India, and the reporting advice — 1930, the cybercrime portal, your own bank — is the Indian route. The scam patterns themselves travel, but the numbers to call do not.
What we ask of you
- Use it to check messages, not to test how far it bends. Do not try to overload it, break into it, or run it as an automated service against someone else’s traffic.
- Do not present its verdicts as an official finding, a bank’s position, or a legal determination. It is a reading of a message.
- Do not use it to decide something about another person — whether to trust them, employ them, or accuse them. It judges a message, and a message is not a person.
Availability
There is no promise that the site is up. It may be offline for maintenance, or unreachable for reasons neither of us controls. Because the checking runs inside the page, a check you have already loaded normally keeps working even when the network does not — but do not build a plan around that, and never wait on this tool when money is moving. Ring your bank.
Links and telephone numbers on this site
Where the guidance points at a helpline, a bank, or a government portal, those are run by other people and can change without notice. Check a number against the organisation’s own site before you rely on it, exactly as you would with a number that arrived in a message. If you find one here that is out of date, that is worth telling us about.
Using it sensibly
Do not rely on it alone for a decision that costs you money. When a message claims to be from your bank, the right move is always the same regardless of what this tool says: close the message, open the bank’s own app, and look for yourself.
Please do not paste other people’s personal information into it unnecessarily. You do not need to: the checker works on the message text, and nothing you paste is stored either way.
Liability
The tool is provided without warranty. We are not liable for a loss that follows from relying on a verdict, whether the verdict was right or wrong. That is not a disclaimer written to escape responsibility; it is an honest statement that no detector catches everything and you should not stake money on one.
Your message stays yours
Pasting a message here gives us no claim over it. We could not use it if we wanted to: it is not stored, so there is nothing to own. The wording of the pages, the guidance and the signal library are ours; you are welcome to quote them, and to send anyone here who needs the tool.
When it gets something wrong
It will. A genuine delivery notice will be flagged, and some real scam will come back clean, because a detector strict enough to catch everything would flag half of ordinary life. If you meet either case, the feedback control on the result is the fastest way to say so; it sends the verdict and the signals that fired, and none of your message. That is how the signal library gets less wrong over time.
Changes
The signal library is updated as new scam patterns appear. The version and the date it was last updated are shown on every result and on the how it works page. These terms can change too; the date under the title is when they were last reviewed, and continuing to use the tool after a change is how you accept it. Nothing here takes away a right you have under the law that applies to you.