About Is This A Scam?

We built Is This A Scam?, an AI-powered scam detection service, at FortifiedWall LLC. Email us a suspicious text, letter, voicemail, document, or QR code at Check@IsThisAScam.Email and we'll send back a plain-language verdict with recommended next steps.

What we do

Before we judge anything, we do the legwork. We follow and scan the links, decode QR codes, read the text out of images and PDFs, transcribe voicemails, and check senders, phone numbers, and web addresses against professional threat data. Then our most capable AI weighs all that assembled evidence and reaches a verdict — SAFE, SUSPICIOUS, SCAM, or UNKNOWN — reasoning from verified facts rather than from what an AI happens to recall, and refusing to guess when the evidence is genuinely unclear.

We built this the way we did because we're cybersecurity experts, using the latest AI technology and a diverse set of high-quality data connectors to bring real context to every submission — not a chatbot answering off the top of its head. One subscription covers up to 6 email addresses, so you can add parents, a partner, or kids as members — each person forwards from their own address and gets their own verdict back.

We're always on. Email us in the middle of the night, first thing in the morning, or on a public holiday, and you'll still get an answer — no waiting for business hours or a callback.

What we don't do

Advice only. Not a recovery service. We help you decide whether something is safe before you act on it — we do not recover funds that have already been sent, negotiate with scammers, or act on your behalf. If money has already been sent, the first calls are your bank or card issuer, then reportfraud.ftc.gov, and for financial fraud ic3.gov.

How our guides are written and reviewed

We ground our scam guides in the patterns our AI analysis surfaces across real submissions in aggregate, cross-referenced against publicly documented tactics and figures from the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network and the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) — both linked inline wherever a guide cites a statistic. Worked examples in each guide are illustrative composites based on common patterns we see, not a verbatim reproduction of any individual's submission; we never publish anything a subscriber sends us. Each guide carries a "Last reviewed" date, and we revisit it as scam tactics change.

Who's behind this

We're FortifiedWall LLC. To sign up or send us something to check, email Check@IsThisAScam.Email. For support, questions, or feedback, use the contact form.