Scam weather: what people asked us to check this week
Every week people paste suspicious texts, emails and DMs into our scam checker. This page counts who those messages claim to come from — a courier, a bank, a tax office — so you can see what is going around before it reaches you.
2026-09-30 to 2026-10-07: 100 messages in the kinds below, plus a few in kinds seen fewer than 5 times. From 4011 checks in our scam checker; bots are not counted.
Web shops and product pages
A shop or product page someone wanted checked before ordering.
34too few last week to compareAccount and subscription warnings
Your Apple, Microsoft, streaming or shopping account is about to be suspended, or a subscription renewed.
16too few last week to compareBanks, cards and payment requests
A blocked card, a security update, or an unpaid invoice that has to be settled today.
12too few last week to compareTickets, travel and bookings
Concert tickets, holiday rentals, flights and events — often sold through a link or a private seller.
11too few last week to compareParcel and delivery services
A missed delivery, a customs fee or a registered letter waiting for you, with a link to pay or reschedule.
9too few last week to compareInvestment and crypto offers
Trading platforms and crypto profits, often with a celebrity's face on the ad.
7too few last week to compareTax offices, fines and tolls
A government body demanding payment or action: a tax refund, a traffic fine, an unpaid toll or TV licence.
6too few last week to compareJobs and paid tasks
A recruiter with an easy remote job, or paid "tasks" like liking videos or rating products.
5too few last week to compare
Fewer than 5 this week: Prizes, inheritances and money waiting, Strangers making personal contact, Marketplace buyers and sellers
22 more looked like ordinary marketing rather than a scam.
How we count
When someone pastes a message into our scam checker, a classification model reads it once and names who the message presents itself as. We count only messages it is confident about; bare links are not counted, because a link alone does not say who it claims to be. A message showing up here is not proof it was a scam — ordinary marketing is counted too, as its own line.
This page shows counts only: never the text of a message, a link or anything that could identify the person who pasted it. Any kind seen fewer than 5 times in a week is listed without its number. How we handle pasted messages
Got a message you are not sure about?
Paste it into the scam checker. You get a read on the message and on any shop or link it names, in seconds.