The original phishing channel
Email phishing impersonates a trusted sender, your bank, a colleague, a vendor, or a service like Microsoft 365, and asks you to log in, open an attachment, or approve a payment.
Modern phishing emails are clean and convincing, often free of the obvious typos people were once told to look for. The reliable tells are in the sender address, the links, and the request itself.
How to identify a scam email
- The sender’s address does not match the real organization, or uses a lookalike domain.
- A link whose visible text differs from its true destination when you inspect it.
- Unexpected attachments, especially documents urging you to "enable content."
- Urgent requests to pay an invoice, change bank details, or reset a password.
- A generic greeting, or a tone and signature that feel slightly off.
What it looks like
Your Microsoft 365 password expires today. To avoid losing access to your email, re-validate your account here: m365-account-portal.com. IT Helpdesk.
Email phishing. FraudScope flags the lookalike portal domain, the same-day deadline, and the credential-reset bait. Its guidance: never log in through an email link. Open the service directly and check from there.
Forward it, read the verdict
Share a suspicious email to FraudScope as a PDF or paste the text, and it explains who the message impersonates, what it wants, and the exact lines that give it away. URL Deep Inspection (a Pro feature) reveals where any link truly leads.
Analysis runs entirely on your iPhone and makes no network requests. The only time FraudScope touches the internet is if you tap Inspect URL to check where a link really goes, and it tells you before it does.
Email as PDF · URL Deep Inspection (Pro) · On-device
Frequently asked
How can I tell if an email is a phishing scam?
Check the sender’s real address, hover or inspect links to see the true destination, and be wary of urgent requests to log in, pay, or open an attachment. When in doubt, contact the sender or organization through a channel you already trust, not the email itself.
Is it dangerous to open a phishing email?
Opening the email is usually low risk. The danger is clicking links, opening attachments, or enabling content. Avoid those actions, and if you are unsure, let FraudScope analyze the message before you interact with it.
Does FraudScope send my messages anywhere?
No. Analysis runs entirely on your iPhone with no network connection. The only time it contacts the internet is if you choose to inspect a link’s destination, and it tells you before it does.
Will FraudScope catch every scam?
No tool can. FraudScope is strongest with the full content of a message and weaker with a bare screenshot that has no link or sender. It is a powerful second opinion, not a guarantee. When in doubt, slow down and check with someone you trust.