The Cheat: Prevent damage from financial fraud with real-time sender ID and spam detection

The Cheat is an app that prevents damage from financial fraud through real-time caller ID display and spam and phishing detection. While providing these core features to users around the world, our spam database is primarily based on information from South Korea.

[Main features of The Cheat]
Real-time spam information information
- Caller ID identification: Checks the caller information of incoming calls in real time to identify and warn suspicious numbers.
- Spam detection: Analyzes received SMS messages to detect and warn of spam messages.
- Financial fraud detection: Provides real-time caution information on spam phone numbers/account numbers with a history of financial fraud.
- Notification function: Provides real-time notification when suspicious calls or messages are received.

Premium Search
You can check the prepaid phone status and contact/account number reliability information.

Cryptocurrency damage case search
We support searches for damage cases of cryptocurrency impersonating Upbit, Coinone, and Bithumb, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

Search for working holiday damage cases
We support searches for damage cases related to working holidays in Australia and elsewhere.

[The Cheat Service Information]
The Cheat is an app that prevents damage from financial fraud (spam/phishing/smishing/investment fraud/body cam/romance scam) through real-time caller ID identification and spam detection.
We check financial fraud spam messages and sender information in real time to quickly prevent secondary damage.
More than 30,000 pieces of spam/phishing/smishing information are detected every day. The spam database mainly contains information from South Korea, so some features may be restricted overseas.

The cheat includes internet fraud, voice phishing, smishing, messenger phishing, momcam phishing, internet gambling, prostitution, employment fraud, lease fraud, quasi-receipt, illegal loan business, pyramid scheme, insurance fraud, courier fraud, cryptocurrency fraud, investment fraud, etc. It is the largest service in Korea to prevent damage from financial fraud.
Please be sure to use it when transacting second hand goods directly between individuals, such as Carrot Market, Lightning Marketplace, and Jungjongnara to prevent damage from internet fraud.

[Service usage guide]

- You can use it by linking your KakaoTalk and Google accounts.
- Most features are provided for free, but some features can be used with points earned through community activities and advertising rewards.
- Various benefits are provided to victims when registering a victim case.
- Damage information registered in The Cheat is linked to financial transfer services such as Naver, Kakao Bank, Kakao Pay, Naver Pay, Industrial Bank of Korea, Shinhan Investment & Securities, Finq, Toss, 11th Street, Lightning Marketplace, Mirae Asset Securities, and Woori Bank. Prevents fraud damage. (As of September 2024)

[The Cheat provides core functions through the following permissions.]

1. Required access rights
- Phone: Required to verify caller information for incoming calls and identify spam and scam calls.
- SMS: Required to detect spam and fraud messages by analyzing received SMS messages.
- Call logs: Required to provide identification of spam and scam calls.
- Address book: Required for the ‘Spam search only for numbers not in the address book’ function.

2. Selected access rights
- Microphone: Required to use the victim mobile verification function.
-Storage space: Required to set profile picture and use photo attachment function to posts.
- Notification: Required to provide spam/fraud/phishing detection notification function.
※ You can use the service even if you do not agree to granting optional access rights, but the provision of functions that require such rights may be restricted.

[Information Collection Guide]
- The user's mobile phone number is used to log permission permissions.

[caution]
Allow required permissions: Per Android policy, required permissions are required to identify spam/fraud/phishing. If you do not agree, you cannot use The Cheat app.
Use of minimal permissions: The Cheat requests only the minimum permissions necessary to provide services.
※ This app requires phone and SMS permissions to provide spam and fraud detection functions in accordance with Google Play Store policies.

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