Sniff
Paste any SMS or link, know if it's a scam in seconds
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Details
- External ID
- 1274051
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Skiff
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Security
Description
Sniff is a free AI scam checker built for India. Paste a suspicious SMS, WhatsApp message, link or phone number and get a verdict in seconds (Safe / Suspicious / Scam) with the exact red flags and what to do next. Catches KYC, UPI, OTP, bank, courier, job and "digital arrest" scams. No login, works on any phone. Made in Hyderabad.
Enrichment
- Niche
- AI assistants for messaging platforms
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- scam and phishing detector for links and sms
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A prompt-engineered frontend that takes input text or links and queries an LLM configured with knowledge of common Indian fraud patterns.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #49 of 125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
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- AbegVerify · ph · 2026-10-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Check Mo Muna - AI Scam-Risk Analyzer · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- SecurCheck · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Data Sanitizer · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ScamsShield · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Squelch Check · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40