How does Scampilot stack up?
There are many ways to check a suspicious message. Here is the honest comparison - including the cases where another route is the better one.
Researching yourself (Google, forums)
Free and often works - if you know what to search for and have the time. For brand-new scams nothing is indexed yet, and scammers rank fake "review" sites of their own.
Scampilot checks link reputation, sender authentication and wording patterns in one step - even for scams that are hours old. Verdict with reasons in under 5 seconds.
Your mail provider's spam filter
Reliably catches bulk spam. Targeted phishing and anything outside the inbox (SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, QR codes, marketplace chats) never reaches it.
Scampilot checks every source: mail, SMS, messenger text, link, image or QR code - via paste, forwarding, Telegram bot, browser extension or API.
Caller-ID apps (spam blockers)
Good against known spam callers on your phone. But they only rate the number - never the content of a message or a link.
Scampilot pairs a community phone-number directory with content analysis: the number AND what it wants from you. No app install, works on desktop too.
Asking your bank / the police
Always right once there is actual damage - block cards, file a report. For a quick first read, hotlines are slow and not staffed around the clock.
Scampilot is the step before: know in seconds whether it is serious - and on "danger", concrete next steps including when to involve bank and police.
Pasting into a general AI (ChatGPT & co.)
General-purpose AIs explain well but have no live reputation data, no community reports and no calibrated threshold - they guess on fresh domains.
Scampilot combines AI analysis with live blocklists, Safe Browsing data, sender authentication and community reports - and escalates automatically on low confidence.
What Scampilot is not for
Scampilot is a co-pilot, not an autopilot: we do not prevent clicks, replace antivirus, or replace filing a police report. Once damage is done, bank and police come first - our guides tell you exactly in which order.