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Open isitascam.app on your phone, drop a screenshot of the SMS, WhatsApp chat, DM or email, or paste the text. In a few seconds you get a verdict, a risk score, and the exact words from your message that look like a trap. Nothing leaves the phone.
If it asks you to pay a small fee, tap a short link, update KYC, share an OTP, or install an app, treat it as high risk until you verify on the official site or app you open yourself. This checker looks for those patterns: customs fees, KYC expiry, electricity disconnection, digital arrest, UPI collect QR codes and lookalike bank links.
No. Indian police, the CBI, ED or RBI cannot arrest you on a WhatsApp or Skype video call or make you transfer money to a “safe” or “escrow” account. Hang up. Call 1930 and report at cybercrime.gov.in if money already moved.
No. A genuine bank SMS sends you an OTP. It never asks you to reply with it, share it, or type it into a random link. If someone claiming to be support wants the code, it is a scam.
No. There is no account, no server copy, no database. Reading happens in your browser with on-device OCR. That is why it also works on aeroplane mode after the page has loaded.
Yes. Screenshot the thread or paste the text. The same rules catch courier phishing, lottery and job-fee lures, IRS tax-refund texts, Netflix billing lookalikes, and gift-card or crypto payment asks.
Do not pay, do not tap the link, do not install remote-access apps. Open the company website yourself. Call a number you look up, not the number in the message. Share the verdict card with family so they see the quoted words.
A collect request takes money from you. Decline it unless you started the payment in the official app. Scammers send QR codes after fake refunds, jobs, or courier messages. This checker flags collect-now, scan-to-pay and “pay to verify” language.
No. It means the text did not match the high-risk patterns we scan for. If money, KYC, OTP or a download is involved, still verify with the company on a number you look up yourself.
Yes. The same screenshot check catches PayPal, IRS, Netflix, USPS, Apple ID, crypto wallet and gift-card lures used in the US, UK, EU, Australia and elsewhere — plus Indian KYC, courier and digital-arrest texts.