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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.
Open the companion tool →Why the route, not the logo
A convincing invoice is cheap to produce now — real logos, real-looking tracking numbers, plausible amounts. The one thing a scam cannot fake is the route: when you pay through a real carrier's or vendor's own app or site, the money goes to the real party.
Delivery-fee and invoice scams work by making a small payment feel urgent and harmless. The defense is to never pay from inside the notice, and to confirm any claimed delivery or balance through the carrier's or vendor's own channel.
The protocol
- Paste the notice or invoice without adding card numbers or account details.
- Read the route basis: who the sender claims to be and where the link or payment actually points.
- Pay nothing from inside the notice. Open the carrier's or vendor's official app or site and check the delivery or balance there.
- If you already paid, contact your card issuer or payment service, then report at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
What the tool does
Paste a delivery notice or invoice and get a reading of who the sender claims to be, where the payment points, and the independent confirmation route. It runs in this browser; nothing is sent or stored.
Limit first: This is a payment-route aid, not a fraud investigation service. It can miss a pattern and it can flag an ordinary notice. A clean reading never proves a notice is real.
Open the companion tool →One human next step
Confirm the shipment or balance through the official carrier or vendor app; if it does not exist there, report the notice and file with the FTC at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not used for a verdict. This artifact is an inspectable payment-route reading; a remote model would add an opaque classification where the reader needs to see the destination. §6.10: not a frontier-pace topic.
§0.5 protection result: category is scam-fraud-defense; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.