Scam website blocker for your phone
BLOKK blocks known scam and phishing websites before they load, in every browser and every app on your phone. It checks each address against a list of more than 7 million scam and tracking domains on Android. It is free and needs no account. It does not block calls or text messages.
How BLOKK blocks a scam website
Scam links rarely arrive in your browser. They arrive in a text, an email, a chat message or an advert inside an app. A browser’s own protection only helps if the link opens in that browser.
BLOKK works one level lower. Every time any app on your phone tries to reach a website, BLOKK compares the address with its list of known scam, phishing and tracking domains. If the address is on the list, the connection is stopped and the page does not load. It does not matter which app the link was in.
The check happens on your phone, using BLOKK’s on-device VPN. The list is updated continually.
What it covers
| Links opened from texts, emails and chat apps | Yes |
| Links opened inside social media and shopping apps | Yes |
| Every browser on the phone | Yes |
| Fake shops, fake login pages and phishing sites already on the list | Yes |
| A scam site created minutes ago and not yet reported | No |
| Scam phone calls | No |
| Scam text messages themselves | No. BLOKK blocks the website a text links to, not the text |
What a blocker cannot do
No list knows about a scam website on the day it is created. A blocker removes the known ones, which is most of what people meet. It does not replace looking before you pay.
Before you enter card details or a password on a site you have not used before:
- Check the address letter by letter. Scam sites copy real names with one character changed.
- Be wary of prices far below everywhere else, countdown timers and payment by bank transfer only.
- Look for a real company name and address, and search for it.
- Use a free checker for a second opinion. In the UK, Get Safe Online’s Check a Website tool is the standard one.
If you have already entered your details
- Contact your bank straight away, using the number on your card.
- Change the password for that account and any other account that uses the same one.
- Report it. In the UK, forward scam texts to 7726, forward scam emails to [email protected], and report losses to Report Fraud.
Why it is free and needs no account
The scam website blocker is part of BLOKK’s Privacy Shield, which is free. You do not create an account or give an email address: you install BLOKK and turn it on. The same Shield blocks trackers in every app, and Activity shows you what it stopped.
BLOKK’s paid plan, MAX, adds a VPN. The scam website blocker does not need it.
Download BLOKK on Google Play or download BLOKK on the App Store.
