Every scam
leaves a trail.
Check suspicious messages, understand the warning signs, and choose a safer next step.
Dashboard
Review evidence activity, risk signals, and investigation coverage in one workspace.
Coverage describes available prototype features, not independently validated detection performance.
Scams unfold in sequences.
Investigate the whole chain.
Bring messages, URLs, identities and payment events together. ScamChain extracts visible indicators, links shared entities, orders evidence in time and explains the suspected workflow—without presenting an inference as a proven fact.
Worried you may have been scammed?
Choose what happened to see the safest next step. A high indicator alone does not mean money was lost.
From fragmented signals to a reviewable case
Ingest evidence
Normalize messages, emails, URLs and payment-related events.
Extract & resolve
Find visible entities and link exact matches across evidence items.
Correlate in time
Order events and inspect the intervals between them.
Explain the chain
Build a graph, surface gaps and show why a workflow looks suspicious.
Investigation snapshot
Signals that matter together
This web prototype uses transparent extraction and correlation rules. Live threat-intelligence lookup and trained-model inference are not represented as active unless a connected service actually returns them.
Pause. Paste. Understand.
Check a suspicious message before acting. Use fictional or redacted text—never enter passwords, OTPs, full account numbers or private conversations you do not have permission to share.
Ready to check
Build the case from separate events
Add each signal as its own record. Preserve the source channel and timestamp so the relationship between events can be examined.
New evidence event
Use fictional or redacted data. Never enter passwords, OTPs or full account numbers.
Evidence collected
Every record remains separately inspectable.
What the evidence supports
Explore the suspected workflow
Edges show exact entity overlap or explicitly labeled inferred stage links. A graph connection is not proof of causation.
Case relationship graph
No case correlated yet. Add evidence to generate a case-linked graph.
How the suspected scam unfolds
Follow the evidence from the first contact to the latest observed action. Each step links back to the event that supports it.
Attack path and defensive breakpoints
Each branch is built from matched stage rules and the evidence items that triggered them. Select a branch to inspect its supporting records.
Event sequence
Observed vs inferred
ObservedText or metadata explicitly present in a submitted evidence item.
LinkedExact matching entity value appears in more than one event.
InferredRule-based candidate stage; requires corroboration before treating it as fact.
Evidence ledger
Every finding should be traceable to an input. Missing evidence is surfaced instead of silently filled in.
Evidence records
Submitted items, source channels and timestamps.
Risk reasoning
Indicators and evidence gaps.
- Indicator score is a prototype index, not a calibrated fraud probability.
- Exact string matches do not prove common ownership or intent.
- Timestamp order does not prove causality.
- No live URL reputation, account ownership or transaction verification is claimed.
- Use human review before any consequential action.
Know who the email claims to be from.
Classify email risk, inspect sender identity, compare From / Reply-To / Return-Path, and read reported SPF, DKIM and DMARC results. Supports Gmail, Outlook / Microsoft 365, Yahoo and custom mailboxes without connecting an account.
From provider context to evidence-backed triage
ScamChain separates the mailbox you use from the identity a message claims. Select where you received it, then inspect the message itself. Gmail or Outlook is not automatically the sender's true identity.
Three authentication signals
- SPF: whether the sending server is authorized for the envelope-sender domain.
- DKIM: whether a domain signature is reported as valid.
- DMARC: whether SPF or DKIM aligns with the visible From domain under the domain's policy.
These values are read from pasted headers; this browser demo does not perform cryptographic validation or live DNS lookups. Authentication is one signal, not a complete verdict: mailbox providers may also consider sender reputation, history and behavior.
Research references: Google sender guidelines · Microsoft 365 authentication · DMARC standard (RFC 7489)
Inspect a message
Paste an email or load a local .eml file. Nothing is uploaded.
Findings and evidence
Compare the visible From address with Reply-To, Return-Path, claimed brand, and extracted link hosts.
Detect urgency, credential collection, payment changes, secrecy pressure, and suspicious attachment language.
Load the same fictional cases into the simulation lab to demonstrate how evidence becomes an understandable warning.
Simulation lab: experience the scam
A safe, fictional phone-and-browser environment. Choose a scenario, inspect messages, and see where ScamChain would warn a user. No real messages, payments or websites are contacted.
What does the user encounter?
Scenarios and domains are fictional training examples. This lab does not open external links or verify real-world reputation.
Waiting for user interaction
Open a message on the virtual phone. ScamChain will explain the visible warning signals and offer safer next steps.
Signals connected so far
Stages are a scripted demonstration of the intended workflow, not evidence of a real incident. Production detection requires validation against labeled cases.
Get the right next step
Choose what happened. This guide is informational and does not contact your bank or submit a report for you.
You will see a short checklist for that situation.
India: if money may have been lost, call 1930 immediately and notify your bank or UPI provider. You can also report at cybercrime.gov.in. Use official channels; never pay anyone who promises to recover money for a fee.
Protection actions, connected to investigation.
PandoraShield’s extra layer lives here: guided response, practical protection steps, and ready-to-run scenarios. ScamChain keeps the actual message screening, email analysis, evidence ledger and attack-chain investigation—no duplicate scanners.
What happened?
Choose the action already taken to get a focused response plan. A warning is not proof that an account or device is compromised.
Reduce the chance of a repeat
Mark the practical steps completed for this session. This checklist is local to the current page and is not a device-wide protection service.
Five realistic demo scenarios
Choose a scenario to load its fictional sample into ScamChain Quick Check. Then run the existing analysis—these are test fixtures, not real victims or live threats.
Account suspension lure
Urgency + bank impersonation + OTP request.
Fake parcel fee
Delivery pretext + small fee + suspicious URL.
Prize claim email
Unexpected reward + credential collection.
Remote support app
Untrusted install + screen access request.
Incoming payment trick
Collect request + pressure to enter UPI PIN.
No scenario selected
Choose any example above. It will be loaded into the existing ScamChain Quick Check.
Choose the next step
Three tools. One workspace.
Inspect hidden characters, compare writing patterns, and trace tagged text.
Reveal invisible text
Find zero-width characters, directional controls and selected lookalike characters.
Compare writing patterns
Compare simple linguistic measurements between a known baseline and a suspect message.
Trace tagged text
Embed and recover an invisible source marker in copied text. This is not encryption.
X-Ray Vision
Paste a suspicious message, domain or URL. The scan checks a configured set of invisible and lookalike characters locally.
Imposter ID · Stylometry
Compare a message with a known writing sample. Keep both samples in the browser; short or contextually different text can create misleading differences.
Project Canary
Add an invisible marker to text you control, then check whether the marker is present in a later sample. Copying apps may strip zero-width characters, and anyone who receives the text may also copy or forge the marker.