Baloney

What Baloney does for you

Send it the easy way — forward a suspicious email straight to check@truthorbaloney.com, or snap a photo of a text or letter. No copying, no fuss.

Then Baloney does the homework most people don't have time for — on every message:

  • Reads the whole thing with advanced AI — then keeps going.
  • Shows where every link really goes, and checks whether the website was created just days ago — scam sites almost always are.
  • Checks each link against Google's live list of known scam sites.
  • For a forwarded email, checks whether it really came from the company it claims.
  • Flags the tell-tale demands — gift cards, wire transfers, verification codes — every time.
  • Matches it against scams we're actively tracking (the FTC, FDA, and more).
  • And never tells you a message is “safe” — it always shows you how to check for yourself.

That's more than a quick web search or a chat window can do — and it's all one tap away.

The scale of the problem

$20.9 billion

lost to cybercrime in the U.S. in 2025 (FBI (opens in a new tab))

$15.9 billion

reported lost to consumer fraud in 2025 (FTC (opens in a new tab))

That's not a handful of careless people — it's millions of smart, careful ones. If a scam ever reached you, you're in very good company. It was never your fault.

And the newest threat is the hardest to count: AI can now fake a famous face in a convincing ad, and most of it goes unreported — so the real total is higher than any figure here. The FTC has warned (opens in a new tab) about exactly this.