Message red-flag checker

Review pressure, channel and requested action without uploading your message.

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What the message red-flag checker examines

This local text review highlights language commonly used to rush, isolate or redirect a reader. It does not identify the sender or send the message to a server.

Pressure and secrecy

Look for deadlines, threats, rewards or instructions not to speak with another person.

Requested action

Separate a harmless request for attention from requests for money, codes, credentials, documents or remote access.

Channel control

Ask whether you can verify the claim in an app, saved contact or official website you reached independently.

How to use the message red-flag checker result

Treat the output as a list of questions, not an accusation. Confirm the claimant through a channel they do not control, then apply the pause, verify, decide checklist to the consequence of the requested action. The published scoring method explains why one serious contradiction can outweigh several cosmetic positives.

What this tool cannot establish

A message with no highlighted phrase can still be fraudulent, and a legitimate fraud alert may use urgent language. The result describes wording, not identity.

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