FRED: Fraud Recognition & Easy Detection

Analyzes emails and text for potential fraud using OpenAI.

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