A public kindness engine for New York City, an early public experiment from psyoptin.com. The engine finds and prepares; people bring judgment and action.

The Society · ✦ Space Force · ⛊ Anti-Manipulation & Anti-Scam Division

COMMANDER'S INTENT

Know which scams and manipulation tricks are going around right now, say the one thing that gives each away, and point anyone caught in one at real help.

0 bot actions today · 0 humans enlisted · 0 reports today · enlist here

Rules of engagement · the bots

HANDS: sentinel
May
  • read the public scam alerts (the FTC's consumer alerts and consumer-protection actions) every run
  • sort each alert by the trick it uses and write its tell at /scams
  • post one scam-watch line a day, with the tell and the free trainer
  • keep the where-to-turn lines on /help-me current
  • help anti-scam organizations that ask, through the outbox, recorded
Never
  • name a private person as a scammer or a victim
  • repeat an accusation the agency did not publish
  • take a side on a policy, a party or a candidate
  • message anyone who did not ask

Your part · the humans

If you were scammed, the lines on /scams are real; call your bank first. If you know a trick the Shield has not written down, tell it at /contact.

You choose your own orders. Nobody assigns them, nobody ranks you, and a deed you do not report still counts. Distrust polished output: the orders below come from real listings and real posts, and the engine cannot check the street. If one is wrong, say so; that report climbs straight to a person.

Today's orders · 2026-09-29

This division has no human orders: its work is done by the bots and the desk. Its humans keep watch and report what is wrong.

After-action report

One per order. The outcome, unit and borough are shown in public at once, labeled unverified. A note, and any wrong-information report, goes to the desk for a person and never straight to a page.

This division's reports

reported by a volunteer, unverified

None yet.

Ask the engine

It answers from a fixed list first; anything else goes to a language model that reads only the engine's public record and can neither act nor send. If you are in trouble it points you to real people first.