Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 13, 2026
Korea Scam Check ("the Service") is a free tool that checks suspicious Korean messages, phone numbers, bank accounts, and URLs for scams. It is operated by an individual, Youngji Kim. This policy explains what data the Service processes and why. There is no user account and no login.
What we process
- Message text you submit is sent to our language-model provider (Anthropic) to analyze scam patterns. We do not store the message text.
- Phone numbers and bank account numbers are sent to the Korean National Police cyber-fraud lookup and used for the check. Before any logging, they are irreversibly salted-hashed (SHA-256); we do not store the original numbers.
- URLs you submit are sent to Google Safe Browsing to check for phishing/malware.
- IP address is used transiently, in memory, for rate limiting to prevent abuse. It is not stored persistently.
- For each check we store a record of the verdict, the hashed entity, the check type, and the surface (web/MCP) to build an anonymous fraud-reputation signal. This record contains no readable personal data.
Third-party processors
We share only what is necessary to perform a check, with:
- Korean National Police (cyber-fraud lookup) — phone/account checks
- Google Safe Browsing — URL checks
- Anthropic (Claude API) — message analysis
- Serper — supplementary web-search verification
- Supabase — storage of hashed records described above
- Vercel — hosting
We do not sell your data and do not use it for advertising. We do not request or store conversation history, files, or any account credentials.
Retention
Message text is never stored. Hashed entity records are retained to maintain the fraud-reputation signal. You can request deletion of records associated with a specific entity by contacting us.
Contact
Questions or deletion requests: youngji.kim79@gmail.com