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.