Security & technology
How the engine reaches a verdict it can explain.
Built to understand how scams work.
A high-level view of the pipeline behind every verdict.
- Signal extraction
- Each message becomes a set of concrete signals: text, links, sender identity.
- Language analysis
- Urgency, bait, and pressure patterns in Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, English, and Arabizi.
- URL analysis
- Lookalike domains, punycode tricks, and shortened links.
- Sender intelligence
- Sender reputation and impersonation heuristics.
- Threat intelligence
- Opt-in community reports sharpen detection of active scam waves.
- Risk scoring
- Signals combine into a 0-100 score.
- Explainable detection
- The verdict ships with its reasons. Always.
This page describes the system's design, not its private implementation details.
The description below is the system's public design. Implementation specifics stay private. That's part of the security.
Security is a direction, not a destination: Ehtares is designed to help identify scams, and it will keep improving. It is not a guarantee.