Every scam tool waits until you're already suspicious. Flggd's new Email Scan checks your inbox for you and flags what's dangerous before you open it. Free for everyone: check any text, email, screenshot or QR code and get a plain-English verdict, with the red flags named. Plus Scam School and a game arcade to build the instincts yourself.
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I'm the son of two police officers, and I've spent 25 years working on financial crime data, mostly on the bank side. The thing that always bothered me is that everything happens after the money moves. The alert fires when it's already gone. You build better and better systems for describing a loss.
Consumer scam tools have the same problem in miniature. They wait to be asked. You paste in the text, you get a verdict, and that works. Flggd has done exactly that, free and anonymously, since we launched. But that requires you to take action each time, we had to get ahead of that, to be proactive.
Email Scan is the first thing we've built that doesn't wait. It reads your inbox and tells you what's wrong before you open it. It's a paid feature because it costs us real money to run, and I'd rather say that plainly than bury it. Everything else stays free. Checking a message, Scam School, the arcade, all of it, no account needed.
We care about every victim of this, and that includes the people forced to run the scripts. A lot of them were trafficked into it. Stopping the money is what stops all of it, and being proactive rather than reactive is how you get there faster.
That's why I care what you do with a suspicious text. Not because one message matters much, but because it's the only lever any of us actually has.
I'm here all day. Ask me anything, including what doesn't work yet.
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Have you considered a browser plug in? I would love for the browser to add a large button directly within his email service that could automatically check. He would not be able to copy and paste an email into a website,
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@andrew_brodsky In about 2 weeks our first Chrome Browser plugin is also being released (more browsers to follow). I love that you are thinking about all the attack surfaces. Would you consider talking with us through some of your experiences caring for an aging father and capabilities you would like to have to help you and protect him? My own mother is 83 but in another country so I'm often thinking of remote ways to help too.
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I have been looking for something like this for a long time for my 89 year old vissually impaired father. I do not feel he can tell what is a real and what is not. He has fallen for a scam before, and I know he will again. Can't wait to check this out!
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The iOS link is not loading the app.
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@andrew_brodsky Thank you so much. I hope that it helps, in a couple of months we have a Guardian Mode being released which I'll share details of subsequently, but it goes further than simply sending the Guardian what the user submitted.
As for the iOS link, thank you for the heads up, fixing it now.
Have you considered a browser plug in? I would love for the browser to add a large button directly within his email service that could automatically check. He would not be able to copy and paste an email into a website,
@andrew_brodsky In about 2 weeks our first Chrome Browser plugin is also being released (more browsers to follow). I love that you are thinking about all the attack surfaces. Would you consider talking with us through some of your experiences caring for an aging father and capabilities you would like to have to help you and protect him? My own mother is 83 but in another country so I'm often thinking of remote ways to help too.
I have been looking for something like this for a long time for my 89 year old vissually impaired father. I do not feel he can tell what is a real and what is not. He has fallen for a scam before, and I know he will again. Can't wait to check this out!
PS
The iOS link is not loading the app.
@andrew_brodsky Thank you so much. I hope that it helps, in a couple of months we have a Guardian Mode being released which I'll share details of subsequently, but it goes further than simply sending the Guardian what the user submitted.
As for the iOS link, thank you for the heads up, fixing it now.
@andrew_brodsky https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flggd-scam-fraud-detector/id6751916142?pt=128116978&ct=producthunt is now corrected in the launch page. Thank you.