FRED — AI Email Safety Assistant

Tracking since Apr 1, 2026.

Changelog

• May 10, 2026
  short_description

  Analyzes emails and text for potential fraud using OpenAI.

  AI assistant that reads your emails and explains suspicious messages in plain English.

• May 10, 2026
  name

  FRED: Fraud Recognition & Easy Detection

  FRED — AI Email Safety Assistant

• Apr 27, 2026
  description

  FRED -  YOUR FAMILY'S AI SCAM DETECTOR
  
  Fred is a simple tool that helps protect you and your family from online scams.
  
  Every day, millions of people receive suspicious emails, fake offers, and phishing messages. Fred acts like a friendly digital detective, helping you quickly understand what you can trust online.
  
  When you open an email or webpage, Fred quietly checks it for scam signals, suspicious links, and phishing patterns. In seconds, you get a clear result:
  
  🟢 Safe – Looks trustworthy
  🟡 Uncertain – Be cautious
  🔴 Likely a Scam – High scam risk
  
  Simple results. Clear colors. Instant understanding.
  
  --- HOW IT DOES ---
  
  Fred integrates directly with Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo to help you spot scams the moment they appear.
  
  When you open an email, Fred can automatically scan the message and check it for common scam signals, suspicious links, and phishing patterns. In seconds, you’ll see a clear result right inside your inbox.
  
  No complicated tools. No technical knowledge required.
  
  
  --- YOUR PRIVACY COMES FIRST ---
  
  Fred was designed with privacy in mind.
  
  • Fred does not access your passwords
  • Fred does not store your personal emails
  • Analysis happens securely and only when needed
  
  Your information stays yours.
  
  --- HOW TO GET STARTED ---
  
  1. Install FRED from the Chrome Web Store
  2. Open FRED — you get 10 free checks per month immediately, no setup needed
  3. Sign up for individual or family plan for more checks per 300 checks per month per user.

  Is this email a scam? FRED is an AI-powered phishing email detector that automatically scans every message in your inbox for fraud, phishing, and social engineering attacks — then explains what it found in plain English.
  
  Stop wondering "is this email legitimate?" — FRED checks for you.
  
  --- AI PHISHING PROTECTION FOR YOUR INBOX ---
  
  Open any email in Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo Mail. FRED scans it automatically and shows a color-coded safety badge right in your inbox:
  
  🟢 Safe — Verified sender, no threats detected
  🟡 Uncertain — Suspicious elements found, review before acting
  🔴 Likely a Scam — Do not click links, download attachments, or reply
  
  Click the badge for a full threat breakdown: risk score, detailed AI explanation, and every red flag FRED caught.
  
  --- HOW FRED DETECTS PHISHING EMAILS ---
  
  FRED uses a 3-tier AI scanning engine that keeps safe emails fast and suspicious ones thoroughly analyzed:
  
  1. Instant pattern detection — catches common phishing tricks, spoofed senders, and urgency tactics the moment you open an email
  2. AI triage — a lightweight AI model quickly classifies borderline messages that pass initial checks
  3. Deep AI analysis — a full threat assessment with detailed explanation when something looks serious
  
  Each tier only runs when the previous one flags something. Your inbox stays fast. Threats get caught.
  
  --- WHAT FRED CATCHES ---
  
  🏦 Phishing emails impersonating banks, Amazon, PayPal, Apple, and tech support
  🧾 Fake invoices and fraudulent payment requests
  🎁 Gift card scams and advance-fee fraud
  🎭 Spoofed sender addresses and lookalike domains (paypa1.com, arnazon.com)
  ⏰ Urgency tactics: "Your account will be suspended" / "Act within 24 hours"
  🔗 Suspicious links and URLs that hide their real destination
  👔 Social engineering and CEO/boss impersonation attacks
  📦 Fake shipping notifications and delivery scam emails
  
  --- EMAIL SCAM CHECKER FOR WEBSITES TOO ---
  
  Clicked a link from a suspicious email? Hit the FRED icon in your toolbar and select "Scan This Page" to check any website for fraud signals, fake checkout forms, credential-harvesting pages, and phishing indicators.
  
  --- SCAN HISTORY ---
  
  Your last 20 analyses are saved locally in a card layout with type labels (Email / Website), threat icons, and color-coded status so you can revisit past results at a glance.
  
  --- PLANS & PRICING ---
  
  Free — 10 email scam checks per month. Automatic inbox scanning included.
  
  FRED Pro ($3.99/mo) — 300 scans per month with enhanced AI accuracy and priority analysis.
  
  Bring Your Own Key — Use your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key for unlimited phishing checks at no subscription cost.
  
  --- PRIVACY-FIRST EMAIL SECURITY ---
  
  🔒 FRED never stores your email content on any server
  🚫 No tracking, no analytics cookies, no telemetry
  💻 Analysis history is saved locally on your device only
  🛡️ Minimal browser permissions — only what is needed to scan emails
  📄 Full privacy policy: https://fredsecurity.com/privacy.html
  
  Trusted by users who take email security seriously. Built by Whiteboard Works. Learn more at https://fredsecurity.com

• Apr 16, 2026
  description

  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

  FRED -  YOUR FAMILY'S AI SCAM DETECTOR
  
  Fred is a simple tool that helps protect you and your family from online scams.
  
  Every day, millions of people receive suspicious emails, fake offers, and phishing messages. Fred acts like a friendly digital detective, helping you quickly understand what you can trust online.
  
  When you open an email or webpage, Fred quietly checks it for scam signals, suspicious links, and phishing patterns. In seconds, you get a clear result:
  
  🟢 Safe – Looks trustworthy
  🟡 Uncertain – Be cautious
  🔴 Likely a Scam – High scam risk
  
  Simple results. Clear colors. Instant understanding.
  
  --- HOW IT DOES ---
  
  Fred integrates directly with Gmail, Outlook or Yahoo to help you spot scams the moment they appear.
  
  When you open an email, Fred can automatically scan the message and check it for common scam signals, suspicious links, and phishing patterns. In seconds, you’ll see a clear result right inside your inbox.
  
  No complicated tools. No technical knowledge required.
  
  
  --- YOUR PRIVACY COMES FIRST ---
  
  Fred was designed with privacy in mind.
  
  • Fred does not access your passwords
  • Fred does not store your personal emails
  • Analysis happens securely and only when needed
  
  Your information stays yours.
  
  --- HOW TO GET STARTED ---
  
  1. Install FRED from the Chrome Web Store
  2. Open FRED — you get 10 free checks per month immediately, no setup needed
  3. Sign up for individual or family plan for more checks per 300 checks per month per user.

• Apr 1, 2026
  host_permissions

  *://mail.google.com/*, https://*.workers.dev/*, https://api.openai.com/*

  *://mail.google.com/*, *://outlook.live.com/*, *://outlook.office.com/*, *://outlook.office365.com/*, *://mail.yahoo.com/*, *://fredsecurity.com/*, *://www.fredsecurity.com/*, https://*.workers.dev/*, https://api.openai.com/*

Permissions & access

Permissions

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Host access

*://mail.google.com/*, *://outlook.live.com/*, *://outlook.office.com/*, *://outlook.office365.com/*, *://mail.yahoo.com/*, *://fredsecurity.com/*, *://www.fredsecurity.com/*, https://*.workers.dev/*, https://api.openai.com/*

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