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LIKELY SCAM
High confidence (92%)
Example

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"Your package from USPS could not be delivered. Click here to reschedule: [link redacted]"

Summary

This message combines three high-confidence scam signals — urgency language, a suspicious domain not affiliated with USPS, and a credential-harvesting link pattern. Do not click the link.

Key signals

→Urgency language detected ("could not be delivered", "Click here")
→Domain mismatch — sender not a known USPS address
→Link pattern matches credential harvesting templates
→Impersonates a known delivery service

Recommended action

Do not click any links. Delete this message. If you already clicked, change your passwords immediately.

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What people check

📧 Bank emails 📨 HR messages 🚚 Shipping notices 🔐 Password resets 💼 Job offers 🏛️ Government messages 🛒 Order confirmations 💬 Suspicious texts

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How it works

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What it detects

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Phishing attempts
Spoofed senders, urgent language, fake links
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Financial scams
Fake invoices, payment requests, crypto schemes
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Impersonation
Fake HR, tech support, family emergency scams
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Malicious links
Fake login pages, credential harvesters

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Same input. Same result. Every time.

No AI guessing. No hallucinations. Deterministic results you can verify.

Most AI-based tools give different answers each time. That's a problem when you're trying to decide whether to click a link. Trace Sentinel uses deterministic rules — a specific pattern either matches or it doesn't. No guessing. No hallucinations. No "it might be a scam". Every verdict comes with the exact reason it was triggered, so you can judge for yourself.

What you get

✓Consistent verdicts
✓Specific reasons for every finding
✓Evidence from the actual message
✓No account or data stored

What you won't see

✗'Looks kind of suspicious' hedging
✗Black-box AI confidence scores
✗'Sorry I can't help with that'
✗Your message stored on our servers

The problem in numbers

$12.5B
Lost to fraud in 2024
25% jump from 2023. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network 2024.
$3.0B
Imposter scam losses
#1 fraud category. Fake banks, government agencies, tech support. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network 2024.
1 in 4
People who reported fraud lost money
Most victims said they weren’t certain before they acted. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network 2024.

Built by experience, not hype

Patrick Donohue

Patrick Donohue — Spokane, WA

35+ years in IT infrastructure and cybersecurity, most recently in the financial sector.

I kept seeing the same scams hurt the same people, over and over. Trace Sentinel automates the scam detection I've done by hand for decades. No subscriptions, no accounts, no AI guessing — just deterministic rules that explain their findings.

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