diff --git a/src/features/packets/payload-renderers.tsx b/src/features/packets/payload-renderers.tsx
index e5575f7..b5bcc6f 100644
--- a/src/features/packets/payload-renderers.tsx
+++ b/src/features/packets/payload-renderers.tsx
@@ -301,16 +301,15 @@ function GroupTextPayload({ payload }: PayloadProps) {
                 <span className="text-text-normal font-semibold">{String(decrypted.sender)}</span>
               </div>
             )}
-            {decrypted.message != null && (
+            {decrypted.content != null && (
               <div>
                 <span className="text-text-dim">Message </span>
-                <span className="text-text-bright break-all">{String(decrypted.message)}</span>
+                <span className="text-text-bright break-all">{String(decrypted.content)}</span>
               </div>
             )}
-            <div className="flex gap-x-4 text-text-dim">
-              {decrypted.timestamp != null && <span>{formatUnixTs(decrypted.timestamp as number)}</span>}
-              {decrypted.flags != null && <span>Flags {String(decrypted.flags)}</span>}
-            </div>
+            {decrypted.sentAt != null && (
+              <div className="text-text-dim">{formatTimestamp(decrypted.sentAt as number)}</div>
+            )}
           </div>
         </div>
       ) : (
diff --git a/src/features/packets/usePackets.ts b/src/features/packets/usePackets.ts
index 79a90f6..5fc99a9 100644
--- a/src/features/packets/usePackets.ts
+++ b/src/features/packets/usePackets.ts
@@ -143,6 +143,7 @@ export function usePackets() {
         firstHeardAt: data.observation.heardAt,
         lastHeardAt: data.observation.heardAt,
         observationCount: data.packet.observationCount,
+        scope: data.packet.scope,
         latestObserver: {
           id: data.observation.observerId,
           displayName: data.observation.observerName,
diff --git a/src/types/ws.ts b/src/types/ws.ts
index 9349243..2212b3a 100644
--- a/src/types/ws.ts
+++ b/src/types/ws.ts
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ export interface WsPacketObservation {
       routeTypeName: string;
       isFirstObservation: boolean;
       observationCount: number;
+      scope?: string; // matched transport scope name; omitted when none matched
     };
     observation: {
       observerId: string;
diff --git a/tests/features/packets/payload-renderers.test.tsx b/tests/features/packets/payload-renderers.test.tsx
index 3f8d20c..f5acacb 100644
--- a/tests/features/packets/payload-renderers.test.tsx
+++ b/tests/features/packets/payload-renderers.test.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
 import { render, screen, fireEvent } from "@testing-library/react";
 import { PayloadBreakdown } from "../../../src/features/packets/payload-renderers";
+import { formatTimestamp } from "../../../src/lib/formatters";
 import type { ResolvedHop } from "../../../src/types/api";
 
 const tracePayload = {
@@ -44,3 +45,30 @@ describe("PayloadBreakdown — trace resolvedRoute overlay", () => {
     expect(screen.getByText("-")).toBeInTheDocument();
   });
 });
+
+describe("PayloadBreakdown — GROUP_TEXT decrypted channel message", () => {
+  // Backend GetPacket enrichment nests decrypted:{sender,content,sentAt} (sentAt is epoch ms).
+  // See tower-server db/packets.go + internal/ingest/side_effects.go.
+  // chosen so the ms reading (5:43 p.m.) and the wrong seconds reading (1:13 p.m.) differ
+  const sentAt = 1_700_001_800_000; // epoch ms
+  const payload = {
+    type: "GROUP_TEXT",
+    channelHash: "ab",
+    cipherMac: "00112233",
+    ciphertext: "deadbeef",
+    decrypted: { sender: "Alice", content: "hello mesh", sentAt },
+  };
+
+  it("renders the decrypted sender and message body from content", () => {
+    render(<PayloadBreakdown payload={payload} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText("Alice")).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByText("hello mesh")).toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+
+  it("formats sentAt as epoch milliseconds, not seconds", () => {
+    render(<PayloadBreakdown payload={payload} />);
+    expect(screen.getByText(formatTimestamp(sentAt))).toBeInTheDocument();
+    // the seconds interpretation (×1000) would be a far-future date — must not appear
+    expect(screen.queryByText(formatTimestamp(sentAt * 1000))).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+  });
+});