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XYZ Bank reminds you that your Reward Points (5,036) will expire today. Please visit to reedeem your new year gift: https://xyzbank.top/rewards
🚨 This is a scam. The message pretends to be from XYZ Bank about expiring reward points, but the sender ID is suspiciously numeric, and the link provided is not a legitimate bank domain. This is likely a phishing attempt to steal personal information. Do not click the link and delete the message immediately.
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Why CheckMate
Ever felt that it's harder and harder to distinguish what's real and what's not online? Even if not, you've probably had a friend, or loved one whom you're worried about falling for scams, or into a rabbit hole of disinformation. CheckMate is built for you — and for them.
Checks text messages, links, screenshots, or images
Lives on WhatsApp, where fishy messages commonly spread unchecked
Explains and provides sources, helping you get better at spotting misinformation
How It Works
You send in a message
Simply copy, take a screenshot, or forward the content you want to verify to our WhatsApp number.
Our Generative AI system performs research
Our AI system searches the web, referencing multiple sources and analysing the content (takes ~1 minute).
You receive a response
Get a quick, clear response with explanation and sources if you want to dive deeper.
Our volunteers review the response
In the rare cases (currently <2%) where the majority deem the response unacceptable, CheckMate sends out a correction. We're continually improving, but so far, we've never failed to identify a scam.
Check Out What We've Checked
About Us
We're a group of volunteers who have come together to make the checking of information easy, accessible and available to all. Support our work so we can keep offering free checks on CheckMate.
Frequently Asked Questions
We've built what is known as an AI agent. It uses OpenAI large language models, with access to 3 core "tools" that it can use to interact with the internet.
- Web search
- Webpage screenshot
- Malicious link scanner
The AI agent is intelligent enough to know which tools to use, to perform the necessary research in order to respond to your submissions.