Every point can be opened
A score here is not a verdict handed down by a model. It opens to the indicator that fired, the line that triggered it, and the reason it carries the weight it does.
Who we are
A small tool, built to be checked
What PrivateCue is, why it exists, how the analysis is built, and the things it refuses to do — written by the people who maintain it.
Inspectable rulesDevice-local analysisPublished limits
PRIVATECUEBuilt to be checked
Inspectable
Device-local
Sourced
Honest limits
Why it exists
The scripts are old. The scale is not.
Industrialised fraud repeats. Repetition creates patterns, and patterns can be named, shown and checked.
$929.3mreported to FBI IC3 in 202538%increase in one year94%recover nothing
People who lose money are not careless. They are being worked on patiently by operators following scripts that have already succeeded thousands of times.
PrivateCue places the documented pattern beside the messages you already have. It does not identify a person or replace verification.
How it is built
Four things we hold to
These are not marketing lines. Each one costs us something, and each one is checkable.
Nothing you paste is uploaded
Analysis runs in your browser. There is no conversation database to subpoena, leak or quietly sell, because the conversation never reaches us.
Sourced, or it does not ship
Every figure on this site carries its source and its year. A claim we cannot source does not go on a page, and a number we cannot cite does not go in a report.
We publish what it cannot do
A tool that only tells you what you already fear is not a tool. The limits are printed in every report, and they have a page of their own.
01 · IN
The conversation
Pasted text stays on your device. Speaker labels and dates sharpen the read.
02 · MATCH
The rulebook
Weighted indicators from documented scripts — no model, no training data, no upload.
03 · OUT
The report
A score you can open: every point traces to a rule, a line, and a reason.
Who is behind it
An independent project, and what that means
PrivateCue is an independent project. It is not a bank, a law-enforcement body, a credit bureau or a recovery service, and it does not present itself as one. The rule library is hand-written from published guidance — FBI IC3, FTC Consumer Sentinel, City of London Police, AARP — and from survivor reports, and it is edited by hand.
Questions about the method, the data handling or the taxonomy are welcome: support@privatecue.com. A real person reads it.
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