Observed arrival · 2026-10-30
Scamby checks scam photos without uploading them
Scamby is an in-development app that checks suspicious dating-profile photos by sending a perceptual fingerprint from the user’s device, rather than the image itself.
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- People checking suspicious dating-profile photos
- Worth noticing
- The shared database contains just 28 fingerprints from 14 reported screenshots, so the unreleased app currently recognizes very little.
Field notes
The page describes a 32×32 greyscale reduction and discrete cosine transform that produce a 64-bit perceptual hash. It says image text is read locally in 33 languages, and that flipped images are checked in both orientations. The displayed sample is explicitly an illustration rather than an app screenshot; the page says the matching database contains 28 fingerprints from 14 reported screenshots.
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