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Amanda Caswell

I thought this credit card alert was real — ChatGPT told me it was a scam in seconds

Close-up of male hands holding a credit card and a mobile phone for an online transaction.

Is it just me, or have spam messages gotten worse lately? From email and social media to LinkedIn and text messages, it feels like they’re everywhere — and showing up every day.

Fake delivery updates, random “bank alerts,” emails that look just real enough to make you pause… it’s getting harder to tell what’s legit and what’s not.

Normally, I either ignore them or do a quick mental check: Does this feel off? But now there’s a new option built directly into ChatGPT — a Norton-powered AI tool that claims it can analyze messages, links and screenshots to tell you if something is a scam.

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