We're a nonprofit on a mission to bring cybersecurity and scam awareness to everyday people — through free tools, free resources, and public-awareness campaigns that meet people where they are.
One of our workshops, hosted in partnership with Baruch ISACA.
Our Impact
5M+
People Reached
Across LinkNYC, Google, Meta & our tools
35,662
Safety Checks Completed
Free checks for suspicious messages and links
100%
Free & Nonprofit
Every tool, guide, and resource we publish
Counts are aggregate, privacy-conscious estimates from completed tool interactions and update automatically.
We build and give away the tools we wish everyone had — scam detectors, safety guidance, and clear explainers. No paywalls, no logins, no catch.
See the scams going around before they reach you. A free alert feed you can share with the people you look out for.
A free, searchable archive of real-world scams so anyone can recognize the patterns before they fall for them.
Search the archive →Forward a suspicious email to check@inboxspotter.com and get an instant, plain-language read on whether it's a scam.
Forward an email →Paste any link and we'll scan it — instantly flagging phishing pages, malware, and other unsafe sites.
Scan a link →WhatsApp-based scam guidance — chat in, get clear answers about whether something is safe.
Chat on WhatsApp →Original research and threat analysis — published openly so anyone can learn from it.
A convincing Nike job-site clone used a fake Facebook sign-in to target people looking for work.
by Higor Silva
![It Looked Like Zillow. It Wasn't: Inside the zillowofficial[.]com Investment Scam](/investigations/zillowofficial/figure-7.png)
A passive OSINT investigation found that zillowofficial[.]com impersonated Zillow while presenting an investment-style platform and sharing a technical structure with similar domains.
by Higor Silva
A fake Government of Canada health-card email hid its scam page behind a fake security check, sending scanners and researchers to the real canada.ca.
by Faisal Hossain
We run public-awareness campaigns across LinkNYC kiosks, Google, and Meta — putting timely, no-jargon scam alerts in front of millions of people right when fraudsters target them.
5M+
Total People Reached
NYC+
Local & Online
Workshops, CTFs, and Scam Search Parties — free community events where anyone can learn hands-on.
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