About ScamSplain
A knowledgeable friend who explains what looks suspicious — before you trust it.
Scams are everywhere, and they’re designed to catch anyone off guard — a text about a package, a call about your bank, an email that looks almost right. ScamSplain exists to give you a calm second opinion in plain English.
Paste a suspicious text message, email, website, or phone number, and ScamSplain explains the warning signs it sees, how risky it looks, and simple steps for what to do next. No jargon, no fear, and no account needed for your first check.
How it works
ScamSplain looks for the tricks scammers rely on: false urgency, threats, requests for gift cards or wire transfers, demands for passwords or codes, requests to install remote-access software, and web links that pretend to be a trusted company. It combines these checks into a clear risk level and explains each warning sign with the exact wording it found.
What ScamSplain is not
- It is not a guarantee. ScamSplain can miss new or cleverly worded scams, and it never says something is definitely safe.
- It is not legal or financial advice. When money or accounts are involved, verify directly with the company using details you look up yourself.
- It does not act for you. It won’t contact anyone, move money, or recover losses.
Your privacy
When you check a message, we analyze it and don’t keep the message itself — the part that can contain your personal information. When a result comes back suspicious or high risk, we do keep the scam’s “fingerprints”: the links, phone numbers, and sender addresses involved. Those identify the scammer, not you, and we never store them alongside what you wrote. Paid members can save their own checks to My Reports, a private history only they can see and delete at any time. If you submit a scam report, we store what you enter so a person can review it — and your name and contact details are never shown publicly. There’s more detail in our Privacy Policy.