LegitInformant

Check it before you trust it.

Somebody sent you something and it does not feel right. These are 14 free tools for taking it apart — the email, the link, the QR code, the bank details, the attachment. No account, no upload, no signup.

Nothing leaves your browser. Every tool here does its work on your own machine. There is no upload and no server request, which is why it is safe to paste a bank detail, a password or your own email headers into one.

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Why these run in your browser

A tool that checks whether something is a scam is a strange thing to hand your data to. The moment a password, a bank detail or a set of email headers is uploaded, you have to trust the site with exactly the information you were being careful about.

So these do not upload anything. The code runs on your machine, and you can prove it: open your browser's network tab, use any tool, and watch that no request is made. That is also why they keep working with the Wi-Fi switched off.

The one exception is labelled clearly. The password breach check sends the first five characters of a hash — never the password — and does the matching locally. Every tool page says at the top which case it is.

What they can and cannot tell you

Everything here answers a question about form: does this number satisfy its own checksum, what is really inside this QR code, which server actually sent this email. Those have exact answers.

They cannot tell you whether something is honest. A criminal's IBAN passes its checksum. A phishing page has a valid certificate. When money is involved, the answer is always the same: stop, and phone the person on a number you already had — never one printed on the thing that made you suspicious.

If you have already lost money, call your bank immediately — many transfers can be recalled within hours. Then report it to your national fraud authority: Action Fraud in the UK, the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov in the US, or your local police elsewhere. Speed matters more than anything else at that point.