Before anyone sends money

Check a suspicious message before it costs your family anything.

Paste a text, call script, or email an older relative received. Get a plain read on which scam patterns are inside it, in your browser, right now.

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reports US adults over 60 lost $7.75 billion to fraud in 2025, up 59% from the year before. Most of it starts with one message like the one you might be holding.
This runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is sent anywhere or saved, by us or anyone else.
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Result

Grounded in FTC and AARP fraud categories

The scam mechanisms this tool looks for

These are the documented patterns behind most fraud reported to the FTC and AARP's Fraud Watch Network, not a secret formula. Knowing the mechanism is the actual defense, not the tool.