Receipt for scam_check

The scam_check tool checks a target against scam signals and returns a verdict with its reasons. Every call to it files a receipt. In plain terms, an agent receipt is a record of one ai agent tool call that anyone can check: it keeps the exact saved bytes and their sha-256 digest, and it proves the result was not changed since it was saved, not that it was right.

Examples on this page are real receipts pulled from the public Zambo receipts API on 2026-10-24. scam_check appeared 9 times in the 1,600 most recent public receipts checked that day. See the full set at receipt examples by tool.

What a scam_check receipt records

A scam_check receipt is one AER-1 record (receipt schema version 0.4, hosted profile zambo-hosted-receipt/1) for one call. Read from a real scam_check payload, it records:

  • Receipt id: a full UUID. The id is the address of the record: the human page is https://zambo.dev/run/ followed by the id.
  • Tool: name scam_check, version 4.0.0, scope public.
  • Timestamps: the record creation time, and inside the step list a started_at and a completed_at for the call itself.
  • Step status: one step per call, with the tool name and its status. On the first example below the step status is success.
  • The saved output: the exact output object the call returned, kept as canonical bytes. The saved output carries target, verdict, confidence, reasons, matches, sources, first_seen and checked_at, so the verdict can be re-read later with the evidence list it was based on.
  • Output digest: output_hash, the SHA-256 digest of those canonical bytes, with the canonical byte length recorded too (5157 bytes on the first example below).
  • Caller and provenance: a caller type (anonymous on the first example) and a provenance class of EXECUTED BY ZAMBO, which states how the record was produced.
  • Declared side effects: the record declares its side effects, none on the first example.
  • Verification status: the API carries a verification_status field for the record. On the first example below, the verify API reported verification_status commitment_matches, its wording for a record whose digest still matches the saved bytes.

Live scam_check receipt examples

Each example below is a real scam_check receipt. Open one and you see the saved result, when it was saved, and its digest, the same fields described above.

zambo.dev/run/0a81cba9-87df-4b34-aefe-5ea1780ce99c

Saved: 2026-10-24T12:18:46.234Z

Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:bbe6b64edfe2240623e0bb36aeee2bfdce682519767ea8f384e093e67d1b0ec2

Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.

zambo.dev/run/d3597bf6-55d3-475e-b356-014ce41867b4

Saved: 2026-10-24T12:18:24.525Z

Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:c4253ce7a0f10174218586b38d4c409dc49d79760acbe4e19b22ce2c2e2ed9ae

Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.

zambo.dev/run/5370831c-23b2-46dc-a4e4-7d4f8784ea5e

Saved: 2026-10-24T12:18:02.141Z

Output SHA-256 digest: sha256:99b12666af1ea6e488a605297595c18bc568e97ffc17cd0a440b87ebbfc5e015

Checked live on 2026-10-24: this URL returned HTTP 200 with this receipt on the page.

How to verify a scam_check receipt

  1. Open zambo.dev/verify/ and paste the receipt link or the receipt id. The checker recomputes the SHA-256 digest over the saved bytes and reports whether the record still matches.
  2. Or call the API directly: GET https://zambo.dev/api/v2/receipt/{receipt-id}/verify returns the record as JSON, including its output_hash and verification_status.
  3. The format is AER-1, an open IETF Internet-Draft: draft-zambo-aer1-26. Anyone can implement the check; it does not need a Zambo account.

Verification answers one question: is this the record that was saved, byte for byte? It does not answer whether the result inside was right.

Get receipts for your own calls

Add Zambo to your AI once, at zambo.dev/add/, and every tool call after that files a receipt like the ones above. Every account starts with 20 free calls per day, and free calls file receipts too. The background is at AI agent receipts, and more worked examples are indexed at receipt examples by tool.