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Scam Message Decoder
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18
🔷 SkillSpec L3
pm-scam-defense
Decode a suspicious message — text, email, call transcript, or DM — against the anatomy of known scam families, with a 🔴🟡🟢 read and the safe next move. Use when someone asks is this a scam, decode this suspicious text, my 'bank' just called me, this job offer seems off, or my parent got a weird message. Produces the verdict with the specific scam-family match, the tells quoted from the message itself, the safe-verification path (never the message's own links or numbers), and the if-you-already-clicked triage.
What to give it
▸The message itself — pasted verbatim (sender address/number included; the from-field is often the loudest tell)
▸The context — do they have a relationship with the claimed sender? Were they expecting anything? (An unexpected "your package is held" and an expected delivery read differently — barely)
▸Engagement status — just received, or already clicked/replied/paid — the second reroutes the whole output to triage first
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Every red flag quotes the message's actual words
✓The verdict names a specific family, not generic "be careful"
✓The safe move uses only channels the user already had
✓🟢 verdicts are given when earned, with the free-verification note
✓The triage is ordered by recoverability speed and opens shame-free
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not shame the target anywhere — these are professional operations; embarrassment is part of their design
Do not verify through anything the message provided — links, numbers, "press 1"
Do not mark everything 🔴 — false alarms train people to stop asking
Do not promise recovery of sent money — route to the fraud line fast and honestly
Do not reproduce or improve scam text — this skill decodes attacks, never drafts them
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
🔌 Embed this skill
Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:
<div data-pm-skill="scam-message-decoder"></div>
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