How ScamSam works
How ScamSam works
- 1 Paste the suspicious message into the box — a mail, a text, a chat, an offer. Or forward the mail to scamsam@grgmyr.com (registered accounts).
- 2 A language model reads it and looks for the familiar signs of a scam: spoofed senders, manufactured urgency, payment demands, credential harvesting, offers too good to be true.
- 3 The verdict comes back at once: scam, suspicious, legitimate or unclear — with the reasons and one piece of advice on what to do now.
- No account 3 checks a day on the free model.
- Account More checks a day, the same free model, and checking by mail. An account costs nothing.
What you submit is never stored. What ScamSam does keep, and for how short a time, is in the privacy policy.
The mail route
Registered accounts with a verified address can simply forward a suspicious mail to scamsam@grgmyr.com — best as an attachment, which keeps the original mail's headers so the check sees the real sender too. The answer comes back by mail, and the forwarded mail is then deleted from the service's mailbox.
The four verdicts
- Scam
- The message carries clear signs of fraud. Do not reply, click or pay.
- Suspicious
- Several warning signs, but no proof. Verify through a second, independent channel before anything else happens.
- Legitimate
- No known scam sign found. That is an assessment, not a guarantee — stay careful whenever money or passwords are involved.
- Unclear
- Too little content or context for a verdict. Submitting more of the message usually helps.
The models
Every check runs on a free model on a machine the operator owns — with an account as without one. Anthropic's Claude models are not part of the offer at the moment; where the operator does enable them, the submitted content goes to Anthropic for the check — details in the privacy policy.