Red Flag Check
Fourteen questions about someone you have met online. We check your answers against patterns documented across thousands of reported romance fraud cases and tell you which ones match.
This runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent anywhere, stored, or logged. There is no signup and no account. Close the tab and it is gone.
Before you start, one thing worth knowing: a clean result does not mean a person is real. Most romance fraud is never reported anywhere and new accounts are created constantly. This tool checks for known patterns. It cannot verify anyone.
If money has already changed hands, skip the questions and go straight to the guidance below.
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How this works
The questions are drawn from patterns that recur across reported romance fraud: how contact begins, the occupations chosen because they explain absence, the reasons video calls never happen, the pace at which intimacy is built, the request to move off-platform, the eventual introduction of money or an investment opportunity, and the encouragement toward secrecy.
Some answers carry far more weight than others. A request for money from someone you have never met in person is close to dispositive on its own. Others are only meaningful in combination.
This is not a verdict about a person. It is a structured way of looking at a situation that is difficult to see clearly from inside it, which is precisely what these operations rely on.
If you are worried about someone else
A great many people arrive here worried about a parent, a friend or a sibling rather than themselves. The hardest part of that situation is usually not the evidence — it is that confrontation tends to push people closer to the person defrauding them.
Asking questions works better than presenting conclusions. Has he video called you? Has she mentioned any investment? Curiosity keeps the conversation open. Accusation closes it.