About this site

MalwareZero is a small independent site about the scams that reach ordinary people through their mailboxes, phones, and front doors. The goal is narrow and practical: help you decide whether the thing in front of you right now is dangerous, and tell you what to do about it.

How we write

Scam coverage online tends to two extremes. Either everything is a five-alarm emergency, or it's a vague listicle that never quite answers your actual question. We try to sit in the useful middle. When something is genuinely dangerous, we say so plainly. When a threat is smaller than the headlines suggest, we say that too, because a reader who can tell the difference stays calmer and makes better decisions the next time.

Everything here is checked against primary sources where they exist: FBI and FTC alerts, Better Business Bureau reports, and the actual mechanics of how each scam operates. Where we're uncertain, we tell you.

The tools

The QR checker and the safe word generator run entirely in your browser. They send nothing to any server, and there's no analytics tracking you across the site. You can confirm that yourself with your browser's network inspector.

How the site pays for itself

Honestly, so you know where you stand. Some pages link to services we think are genuinely relevant to the problem being discussed, mainly data removal and security tools, and if you sign up through one of those links the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We only point to things that fit the actual advice on the page, and the advice doesn't change based on who pays. Plenty of our recommendations, like "freeze your credit, it's free" or "just call the number on your card", make us nothing at all, which is rather the point.

Contact

Spotted an error, or a new scam variant we should cover? That feedback is genuinely useful and shapes what gets written next. Reach us at hello@malwarezero.org.