| name | scam-message-decoder |
| description | Decode a suspicious message — text, email, call transcript, or DM — against the anatomy of known scam families, with a 🔴🟡🟢 read and the safe next move. Use when someone asks is this a scam, decode this suspicious text, my 'bank' just called me, this job offer seems off, or my parent got a weird message. Produces the verdict with the specific scam-family match, the tells quoted from the message itself, the safe-verification path (never the message's own links or numbers), and the if-you-already-clicked triage. |
Scam Message Decoder Skill
Every scam is a costume over the same skeleton: manufactured urgency, an unusual payment or credential request, and a channel you didn't initiate. This skill reads the actual message against the known families — phishing, smishing, the fake-fraud-alert call, job scams, romance/pig-butchering, invoice fraud, grandparent emergencies, tech-support pop-ups — quotes the tells from the text itself, and gives the one move that defeats nearly all of them: verify through a channel you already had, never through anything the message provides. No shame anywhere in the output; these work on smart people because they're built by professionals to.
What This Skill Produces
- The verdict — 🔴 scam-pattern match / 🟡 suspicious-verify-first / 🟢 consistent-with-legitimate — with the family named
- The tells, quoted — each red flag pointed at the message's own words
- The safe next move — the independent-channel verification path, specific to the situation
- The already-engaged triage — clicked/paid/shared? The damage-control ladder, calm and ordered
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- The message itself — pasted verbatim (sender address/number included; the from-field is often the loudest tell)
- The context — do they have a relationship with the claimed sender? Were they expecting anything? (An unexpected "your package is held" and an expected delivery read differently — barely)
