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Is this text a scam?

The unpaid toll, the held package, the frozen account, the wrong-number "hi": paste the text message below and get a plain-English read on whether it's fake.

If it is a scam

Don't click the link, don't reply (even "STOP" confirms your number is live to a scammer), and don't call any number in the message. In the US, forward the text to 7726 (SPAM), which reports it to your carrier for free, then delete it. If it claimed to be a company you actually use, check your account through their official app or by typing their website address yourself.

How the check works

Scam texts are remarkably formulaic. This tool looks for the playbook: manufactured urgency, small-fee requests, the "reply Y and reopen the link" trick that re-enables disabled links, brand names embedded in domains the brand doesn't own, cheap domain endings favoured by scam campaigns, and shortened or disguised links. For any linked domain it also asks the public domain registry how old the domain is: real companies' websites are years or decades old, while scam sites are typically registered days before the texts go out.

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