- Surfshark has launched an AI-based tool to check email fraud
- The tool is only available on its Chrome extension at launch
- The move comes after the AAG reports 3.4 billion spam emails sent daily
While 183 million Gmail users sweat it out over a potential password leak, a VPN company has come up with a solution to stop spam in its tracks. Surfshark has added an email fraud check tool to ensure its users never have to risk clicking on a questionable message again.
It’s an AI-powered tool that analyzes the messages that reach your inbox and is trained to identify common signs of dangerous emails, including suspicious content, sender information, malicious links and other features used in phishing attempts.
Currently, Email Fraud Control is only available with Surfshark’s Chrome web extension, and only for subscribers to Surfshark One or One+ plans, but successful user adoption will hopefully bring it to Firefox and Edge in the future.
Having recently boosted its network with 1,400 more servers and introduced web content blocking to its mobile apps, email fraud protection is the latest addition to Surfshark’s range of tools.
Does Surfshark’s email fraud check work?
We got TechRadar’s VPN technical editor Mike Williams to take Surfshark’s email fraud check for a spin 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 we got into our inbox, we were greeted with a ‘Check email’ button that started the analysis. We put it up against 20 recent questionable emails – 17 were flagged as containing signs of phishing.
Since the tool is still in beta, that’s a pretty solid result! And at least we were warned that “you should remain vigilant” for the three emails it didn’t quite catch.
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How private is it?
If using an email check is ringing your privacy alarm bells, then yes, we hear those bells too.
The first thing to note is that Surfshark’s email fraud check uses servers and an AI system that is fully controlled by Surfshark.
Second, user data is deleted after each fraud check request, and it adheres to the same privacy policy as Surfshark’s VPN, which has a fully audited no-logs policy, RAM-only servers, and AES-256-GCM encryption.
It’s a similar privacy proposition to the Lumo AI email assistant launched by Proton Mail in July 2025. We credit both of these companies with two of the best VPN services out there, so you should be in good hands.
Email scam checker is available now. Surfshark subscribers should take a look.
