Elon Musk has given a public nod to a Grok Bot that one X user built for himself to catch scam emails. At 22:50 London time on 13 October 2026, Musk posted “Grok @Bot detects scam emails!”, quoting a post by the X user @DirtyTesLa. This is not a new feature launch from xAI. It is Musk sharing a bot that a user set up on his own.
Original post via @DirtyTesLa on X
What DirtyTesLa said
DirtyTesLa posted at 16:57 London time the same day. He wrote: “Grok @bot can help save you from scam emails.” He explained: “I have public email addresses, and I get daily scams in my inbox. They are getting harder to distinguish from legit emails.” He added: “I use my Scam Email Detector bot to help alert me to scam emails”, and invited others to try it.
Everything about what the bot does comes from DirtyTesLa’s own post. TSN has not tested it, and he has not said publicly how it decides whether an email is a scam.
Why scam emails are getting harder to spot
Scam emails used to give themselves away with clumsy spelling, odd grammar and generic greetings. That is changing. AI writing tools let scammers produce clean, natural-sounding messages in any language, in seconds. Scammers can also copy the look of real company emails, use details about you that are already public, and send messages that fit something you might really be expecting, such as a delivery, an invoice or a password reset. The tell-tale mistakes people learned to look for are often no longer there.
How to check an email yourself
A bot can help, but the basics still work:
- Check the sender’s real address, not just the display name. Look closely for misspelled or lookalike domains.
- Be wary of pressure. Urgent threats, deadlines and “act now” demands are a classic scam tactic.
- Don’t click links or open attachments you weren’t expecting. Go to the company’s website or app directly instead.
- Never give passwords, codes or payment details by email. Real companies rarely ask for them this way.
- When in doubt, contact the sender another way, using a phone number or address you already know is genuine.
- Report it. In the UK, you can forward suspicious emails to report@phishing.gov.uk.
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