Compass
A program for analyzing and countering digital threats and online abuse.
Compass develops tools that help people recognize manipulation, scams and information threats and make safer decisions in the digital world.
Compass is a social and technology project developed by GoodWay Foundation to increase resilience to manipulation, digital fraud and information threats.
The first component is an intelligent message analyzer that helps users assess suspicious text messages, emails, messenger chats and online offers.
The system analyzes the submitted text, identifies features common to manipulation and indicates the level of risk together with recommended actions.
Each submission also helps build an anonymous knowledge base of current fraud methods, scams and manipulative tactics appearing online.
In later stages Compass will grow into a platform for digital education, threat analysis, social research and information resilience.
Our goal is to create a place that helps people make safer decisions in a world of information, technology and communication.
Spot manipulation before you click
Paste a suspicious message and Compass points out manipulation cues, risk level and recommended action.
Message analysis
Assessment of suspicious SMS messages, emails and offers together with recommended actions.
Knowledge base
Every report helps build an anonymous knowledge base of current fraud and manipulation methods.
Trend analyses
We regularly summarize the new fraud methods appearing in Poland and publish these summaries for everyone — so that anyone can recognize a threat faster.
How Compass works
You paste a suspicious message — a text message, an e-mail, a messenger message or the text of an ad. Compass checks whether it contains typical signs of fraud: time pressure, a request for data or money, a suspicious link, impersonation of a well-known company. It shows what is worrying, assesses the level of risk and suggests what to do. Do not paste passwords, card numbers or codes — they are not needed for the check.
Clicked a suspicious link or gave away your details? Act right away
- Call your bank (the number on your card or in the app) and block your card or access to your account.
- Change your passwords — first for e-mail and online banking, then for other services.
- Keep the evidence: screenshots, the phone number, the content of the message.
- Report the fraud — see below.
- If you lost money, report it to the police.
Where to report fraud
- A suspicious text message — forward it free of charge to 8080 (CERT Polska).
- A fake website or message — report it at incydent.cert.pl.
- Loss of money — your bank and the police (in an emergency, 112).
Why we do this
Every report in Compass goes — anonymously — into a knowledge base of new fraud methods. This way warnings can reach people faster, before more people lose money. Compass is a GoodWay Foundation program and it is free.
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