- Surfshark launched an AI-powered email scam checker
- The tool is only available on its Chrome extension at launch
- The move comes after AAG reported 3.4 billion spam emails sent daily
As 183 million Gmail users sweat over a potential password leak, one VPN company has come up with a solution to stop spam in its tracks. Surfshark has added an email scam checker to ensure its users never risk clicking on a questionable message again.
It is an AI-powered tool that analyzes messages that arrive in your inbox and is trained to identify common signs of dangerous emails, including suspicious content, sender information, malicious links, and other characteristics used in phishing attempts.
At the moment, the Email Scam Checker is only available with Surfshark’s Chrome web extension, and only to subscribers to the Surfshark One or One+ plans, but successful user adoption would hopefully bring it to Firefox and Edge in the future.
Having recently beefed up its network with an additional 1,400 servers and introduced a web content blocker to its mobile apps, email scam protection is the latest addition to Surfshark’s suite of tools.
Does Surfshark Email Scam Checker Work?
We asked Mike Williams, TechRadar’s VPN technical editor, to try Surfshark’s email scam checker to see if it actually works, and the early signs are very positive.
Using the tool is as simple as downloading the web extension and opening Gmail.
Once in our inbox, we were greeted with a “Check Email” button which initiated the scan. We confronted him with 20 recent questionable emails – 17 were flagged as containing signs of phishing.
Considering the tool is still in beta, this is a pretty solid result! And we were at least warned that “you need to stay vigilant” for the three emails he didn’t actually catch.
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How private is this?
If using an email checker makes your privacy alarms ring, then yes, we hear those bells too.
The first thing to note is that Surfshark Email Scam Checker uses servers and AI system completely controlled by Surfshark.
Second, user data is deleted after each scam check request and adheres to the same privacy policy as Surfshark VPN, which has a fully audited no-logging policy, RAM-only servers, and AES-256-GCM encryption.
This is a similar privacy proposition to the Lumo AI email assistant launched by Proton Mail in July 2025. We rate these two companies as two of the best VPN services on the market, so you should be in good hands.
Email Scam Checker is now available. Surfshark subscribers should check it out.
