scam-message-decoder
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.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill scam-message-decoder --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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 (sende
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Anatomy Rules
- Output Format
- The Tells
- The Safe Move
- If You Already Engaged
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the scam-message-decoder skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill scam-message-decoder --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.