Forward us anything. We tell you, safe or scam, in 30 seconds. You get a quiet weekly heads-up on what Mom almost fell for.
Fully refundable. No subscription starts until launch. We are hand-onboarding the first 200 families this summer.
What an actual Safe or Scam reply looks like.
Beta example. Real replies arrive in under 30 seconds.
What we check for you
Most free scam tools handle texts and emails. They miss the two formats that hit parents the hardest, and they were not designed for someone who finds dashboards stressful.
Mom forwards us a suspicious voicemail. We listen for known scam scripts and the audio patterns that signal an AI voice clone. Norton, McAfee, and Bitdefender all skip this. It is the single fastest-growing category of fraud against older adults.
The free tools do not do thisPaper scams are still huge for the 60-plus crowd. Fake Medicare notices, sweepstakes letters, IRS impersonations, fake checks. Snap a picture, we read it, we tell you what it really is.
The free tools do not do thisForward the email. Screenshot the text. Phishing, fake invoices, gift-card requests, romance scams, the new wave of fake "your package is held" USPS messages. We answer in plain English in under thirty seconds.
How it works
Mom forwards. We answer her. You get a quiet weekly heads up. No dashboards to learn. No new password to remember. No call to support.
By email, by text, or as a photo. She gets one address to remember. No app, no login, no jargon. If she can forward an email to you, she can forward it to us.
Within thirty seconds. Not "this might be suspicious, exercise caution." A clear answer she can act on: "This is a real bill from your power company" or "This is a Medicare impersonation scam. Do not reply, do not click."
Every Sunday: what Mom forwarded that week, and what we told her. Quiet weeks stay quiet. Loud weeks let you have the right conversation before money goes out the door. This is the part nobody else builds.
An illustrative example
Imagine it is 9:47 on a Tuesday morning. Your mom is on her second cup of coffee, going through the mail. She picks up an envelope marked "Centers for Medicare Services. Final Notice." It looks official. It says her benefits will end on Friday unless she calls a 1-800 number with her policy number ready.
She would have called it. Six months ago she would have called it.
Instead she walks to her kitchen window, snaps a photo of the letter, and sends it to her one address. Two sentences come back inside a minute:
"This is a known mail scam. The real Medicare never sends letters like this. Throw it away. Do not call the number." Safe or Scam, automated reply
Then on Sunday morning, you are reading the news on your phone and a quiet email lands. It tells you Mom forwarded a Medicare scam this week. We caught it. She is fine. It also tells you she got a real bill from her gas company and one legitimate email from her sister's hospice care team. Nothing dramatic. No 2 a.m. phone call. Just the family equivalent of a smoke detector that lights up green every week.
That is what you are buying. Not a feature. Not an app. A weekly green light.
Why not just use Norton or Aura
Norton, LifeLock, Aura, and McAfee all bundle scam-checking inside a much larger identity-protection suite. Those suites are built for people who already use dashboards. Mom does not, and never will.
| Safe or Scam | The bundled suites | |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's for | Parents over 60 and the adult children who worry about them | General consumers comfortable with software |
| How Mom uses it | She forwards an email or text. That's it. No app. | She installs an app, makes an account, manages settings |
| Voicemail audio | Yes, the deepfake voice-clone wave is our headline use case | Not really. Mostly outside the product. |
| Photo of a paper letter | Yes, Medicare scams, fake checks, sweepstakes | No |
| Family side | Quiet Sunday digest of what Mom forwarded | You only find out after the money is gone |
| Yearly cost for a family | $228 ($19 a month, covers everyone) | $800 to $1,000+ for a full family bundle |
Pricing when we launch
A note from the founder
My parents are both in their seventies. The reason we are building Safe or Scam is not market research. It is that the question "did you get this email, is it real?" has become a normal part of every family phone call I have.
The big security suites are dashboards for the tech-comfortable. They are excellent at what they do. They were not built for a 73-year-old who still gets a paper Medicare statement in the mail and wonders if it is legitimate. They were built for me, not for her.
Safe or Scam is a tool you can hand to Mom and forget about. She forwards what worries her. We answer her, fast and in plain English. You get a quiet Sunday note so nothing big happens without you knowing. That is the whole product. We are building this because our own parents are the first beta users.
Frequently asked
Yes. We only see what she sends. Each forward is processed, the verdict goes back, and the content is automatically deleted within 30 days. We do not sell or share what comes through, and we never train our models on family data.
Her email filter catches obvious bulk spam, and she should keep using it. But scammers stopped relying on email years ago. The fastest-growing scams arrive by text message (the fake USPS package, the "Hi Mom, I lost my phone" impostor), by voicemail (the AI voice-clone of her grandchild), and by regular paper mail (the fake Medicare letter). Email spam filters do nothing for any of those.
And when something does get through to her email, it means the filter already missed it. That is the exact moment she needs a second opinion. We are not competing with her spam filter. We cover everything it cannot.
We lean toward caution. When the answer is not obvious, we say so out loud. If we ever get one wrong and you lose money based on our verdict, we refund your subscription immediately and we will work with you on next steps. We are building a stronger guarantee for the public launch.
She gets one short email address. Suspicious email arrives, she hits forward, done. For a text, she screenshots and texts the screenshot to the same number. For a voicemail, every phone has a "share" option. For a letter, she snaps a photo. Nothing to install. Nothing to learn.
Most of our families work exactly this way. You set it up, you pay, we onboard Mom for you. She never has to enter a credit card. Many parents will not enter card information online at all, and rightly so.
One click. The 30-day money-back guarantee covers your first month unconditionally. The $1 reservation is fully refundable until launch.
We open the private beta this summer to the first two hundred families. We are hand-onboarding each one, which is why we are reserving spots rather than charging up front. You will get an email when your spot is ready.
One dollar today reserves your family's spot, locks in the founders price, and gets you the Sunday digest the day we launch.
Reserve my spot for $1Fully refundable. No subscription starts until launch. 30-day money-back guarantee on the plan itself.