FRED: Fraud Recognition & Easy Detection

FRED (Fraud Recognition & Easy Detection) helps you instantly spot fraud, scams, and phishing attempts before they catch you off guard. Get started immediately with 25 free checks per week — no API key or account needed. For unlimited checks, bring your own OpenAI API key.

--- WHAT IT DOES ---

Paste an email, a suspicious message, or a sketchy link and FRED gives you a plain-English threat assessment in seconds. You get a 1–100 threat score, an AI confidence rating, a clear explanation of what looks suspicious, and a list of specific red flags detected in the content.

--- FOUR WAYS TO ANALYZE ---

Email Analysis — Open Gmail, switch to the Email tab, and click "Check Current Email" to scan the full message including sender details and headers.

Text Analysis — Paste any text: a forwarded message, a letter, a chat snippet, a suspicious notification. FRED will tell you if it looks like a scam.

URL Analysis — Got a link you don't trust? Paste it into the URL tab and FRED will analyze the domain structure, redirects, and other signals that indicate phishing or malicious destinations.

History — Your last 20 analyses are saved locally so you can revisit past results without re-running them.

--- THREAT RATING SYSTEM ---

• 1–25: Low risk (green) — content appears legitimate
• 26–50: Moderate risk (yellow) — some suspicious elements worth noting
• 51–75: High risk (orange) — multiple red flags, treat with caution
• 76–100: Critical risk (red) — strong indicators of fraud or phishing

Each result also includes an AI confidence score so you know how certain the model is about its assessment.

--- YOUR PRIVACY COMES FIRST ---

FRED is designed around the principle that your data belongs to you:

• Free tier: content is routed through FRED's Cloudflare Worker to OpenAI. The worker does not log or store your content — it only tracks a per-device check count for rate limiting.
• BYOK mode: content goes directly from your browser to OpenAI — FRED's servers are never involved.
• Your OpenAI API key is stored only in your browser's local storage using obfuscation; never transmitted to our servers.
• No tracking, analytics, or telemetry is collected about your content.
• Text you analyze is never stored persistently (history is kept locally on your device only).
• The extension requests only the minimum permissions needed to function.

--- HOW TO GET STARTED ---

1. Install FRED from the Chrome Web Store
2. Open FRED — you get 25 free checks per week immediately, no setup needed
3. For unlimited checks: get a free API key at platform.openai.com, open FRED → Settings → switch to "My Own Key", and paste your key

OpenAI API usage costs fractions of a cent per analysis. There is no subscription fee for FRED itself.

--- OPEN SOURCE ---

FRED is open source. You can review the full source code on GitHub:
https://github.com/shadoath/fred-fraud-recognition-and-easy-detection