🧠 How It Works
When you submit a screenshot, SmishAlert uses AI to scan for:
Social engineering phrases (e.g., "urgent payroll issue", "verify immediately", "your account is locked")
Unusual formatting or impersonation tone
Spoofing indicators (e.g., fake names or misused roles)
And we leverage all of this information to check against out proprietary smishing database to evaluate threat level
Even if no URL is detected, you’ll still receive an analysis result.
💡 What You’ll See
If SmishAlert doesn’t find a URL in the message, or it does not match any known malicious URLs, you’ll see this:
"This link appears clean, but use caution."
This means the message did not match known patterns or databases at this time.
You can still choose to mark it as safe or keep it in your alert history for future reference. Note, other indicators may have tagged the message as High, Medium, or Low threat - we recommend following the threat assessment guidance at all times.
🔗 When Links Are Present
If your message includes a link, SmishAlert:
Automatically extracts it
Checks it against a globally maintained database of millions of suspicious and malicious URLs
Uses that result as a key signal in your threat assessment
This capability is especially useful for:
Business text impersonations without links
Internal fraud attempts
Financial or vendor scams that rely on psychological pressure