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Flggd
Scam protection that checks your inbox before you do
Every scam tool waits until you're already suspicious. Flggd's new Email Scan checks your inbox for you and flags what's dangerous before you open it. Free for everyone: check any text, email, screenshot or QR code and get a plain-English verdict, with the red flags named. Plus Scam School and a game arcade to build the instincts yourself.
I'm the son of two police officers, and I've spent 25 years working on financial crime data, mostly on the bank side. The thing that always bothered me is that everything happens after the money moves. The alert fires when it's already gone. You build better and better systems for describing a loss.
Consumer scam tools have the same problem in miniature. They wait to be asked. You paste in the text, you get a verdict, and that works. Flggd has done exactly that, free and anonymously, since we launched. But that requires you to take action each time, we had to get ahead of that, to be proactive.
Email Scan is the first thing we've built that doesn't wait. It reads your inbox and tells you what's wrong before you open it. It's a paid feature because it costs us real money to run, and I'd rather say that plainly than bury it. Everything else stays free. Checking a message, Scam School, the arcade, all of it, no account needed.
We care about every victim of this, and that includes the people forced to run the scripts. A lot of them were trafficked into it. Stopping the money is what stops all of it, and being proactive rather than reactive is how you get there faster.
That's why I care what you do with a suspicious text. Not because one message matters much, but because it's the only lever any of us actually has.
I'm here all day. Ask me anything, including what doesn't work yet.
Have you considered a browser plug in? I would love for the browser to add a large button directly within his email service that could automatically check. He would not be able to copy and paste an email into a website,
I have been looking for something like this for a long time for my 89 year old vissually impaired father. I do not feel he can tell what is a real and what is not. He has fallen for a scam before, and I know he will again. Can't wait to check this out!
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About Flggd on Product Hunt
“Scam protection that checks your inbox before you do”
Flggd was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #127 on the daily leaderboard. Every scam tool waits until you're already suspicious. Flggd's new Email Scan checks your inbox for you and flags what's dangerous before you open it. Free for everyone: check any text, email, screenshot or QR code and get a plain-English verdict, with the red flags named. Plus Scam School and a game arcade to build the instincts yourself.
Flggd was featured in Email (36.8k followers), Privacy (11.3k followers) and Security (2.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 22.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Flggd?
Flggd was hunted by Richard Stocks. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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