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We've paused the Ask Arthur scam checker to put everything into Clone Watch
We've paused the Ask Arthur scam checker to put everything into Clone Watch
We've paused the consumer scam checker, the browser extension and the chat bots, and put everything into Clone Watch: finding lookalike websites of Australian brands and getting them taken down. Here is why, what stays, and how it comes back.
·3 min
Arthur's Take: we stopped reposting scam reports and started explaining them
Our feed carried thousands of scam reports from around the world and added nothing to them. Now every report comes with a plain-language read of the pattern behind it — what gives it away, where it's showing up, and what it looks like in Australia.
·5 min
How Ask Arthur Works: From Submission to Verdict
A walkthrough of the Ask Arthur architecture: the 12-stage submission pipeline, the durable Inngest consumers that run after every verdict, the 16-feed threat intelligence layer, three-tier idempotency, the per-platform bot formatters, and nine things we would improve next.
·14 min
Ask Arthur is now on Chrome: detect scam ads and dodgy sellers on Facebook
Australians lost $2.18 billion to scams last year. A huge chunk of that happens on Facebook. Today, Ask Arthur is available as a free Chrome extension to protect you.
·6 min
Why We Built Ask Arthur: Australia Deserves Better Scam Protection
Australians lost $2.03 billion to scams last year and existing tools aren't built for us. Here's why we created Ask Arthur — and how it works.
·6 min
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