Every one of these is modeled on a pattern we actually see. Three of the eight are completely genuine — because a test where everything is a scam teaches you to be paranoid rather than accurate, and being suspicious of real mail from your own bank has a cost too. Take your time. You will get the reasoning either way.
No answers are sent anywhere. This runs entirely in your browser — there is nothing to submit and nothing collected.
You do not need to memorize scam patterns. Four habits catch the overwhelming majority of what reaches an inbox.
Not the display name — the actual address, and whether you have heard from it before. A name is free to type. An address history is not.
Every scam ends in an action: send money, enter a password, call a number, install something. Name the action and the story stops mattering.
Urgency exists to stop you checking. A real deadline survives a phone call. An invented one cannot.
The single most reliable tell in elder fraud. Any message asking you to keep it from family is a scam, with essentially no exceptions.
Nobody is sharp at 7 a.m., or in a hospital waiting room, or on the day of a funeral — and that is precisely when these arrive. We watch the inbox continuously so nobody has to be perfect. First month free.
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