Sentinel
Free
No card needed
- The phone call, payment and romance checks
- One full message check a day, then basic checks
- 25 link and QR scans a day
- Two investigations a month
- The step-by-step recovery plan
Built by a working cyber fraud detective.
Scams don't sound
like scams
anymore.
Scammers want you to act before you think. Scam Sentinel gives you a second opinion before you send money, share information, or trust the person on the other end.
Calls · Texts · Emails · Links · Social media
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play, for iPhone, iPad, and Android.
The real problem
You can't tell anymore. That is the point of a modern scam, and it is exactly why a second opinion helps.
The people who lose money to fraud are not careless. They are targeted by professionals with scripts, spoofed caller ID, and urgency built to rush you past the moment of doubt. Scam Sentinel is that moment of doubt, made useful.
The reality for older adults
Older adults are targeted the hardest. Not because they are careless.
$7.7B
lost by Americans age 60 and older to online scams in 2025
201,266
reports from Americans age 60 and older
$38,500
average loss for a victim 60 and older, nearly double the overall average
12,444
seniors who each lost more than $100,000
They are targeted by professionals with scripts built to rush anyone past doubt. Source: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), 2025 Internet Crime Report.
What federal regulators say
“When consumers are informed about specific types of scams and understand perpetrators’ tactics, they are more likely to recognize a scam and are less likely to engage with a perpetrator or lose money.”
Interagency Statement on Elder Financial Exploitation, issued by the Federal Reserve, CFPB, FDIC, FinCEN, NCUA, OCC and state financial regulators, December 2024. Repeated by FinCEN, part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in its September 2026 alert on scam centers.
That is the idea Scam Sentinel is built on. Every check explains what is likely happening and why, in plain language, so the next scam is easier to recognize.
Quoted from public federal guidance. No government agency endorses Scam Sentinel.
What makes it different
A risk score is a starting point. Scam Sentinel investigates.
Some scams unfold through a relationship or situation rather than a single bad link. A romance builds over months. A caller sounds like your bank. Then comes an urgent favor. Scam Sentinel looks beyond the item you share and asks questions about what is happening around it.
It reasons like an investigator
Instead of scoring a message, it asks the next question a fraud investigator would ask, and shows you in plain language what makes the picture look better or worse.
It stays on the case
A worry becomes an open case Scam Sentinel can check back on over days and weeks, looking for changes such as a new money request or a video call that never happens.
It tells you what to do
Not a risk score. What is likely happening, the one thing to do right now, how to confirm it yourself, and who to run it past before you act.
Automated checks examine technical signals. Guided investigation adds the context a scanner alone does not have. Together, they build a clearer picture.
How it helps
Bring what worries you. Get a plain assessment.
Show Scam Sentinel what landed in front of you. It explains what looks legitimate or suspicious and gives you a practical next step.
1
Check
Paste or forward what you received, or use the guided check while a caller is still on the line. Scam Sentinel gives you an assessment and explains the reasons behind it.
2
Scan a QR or link
Point the camera at a QR code or tap a link and Scam Sentinel checks where it really goes before you do.
3
Family Circle
Loop in someone you trust, if you want to. They can be there when the phone rings, and you stay in control.
4
Learn the plays
Short, plain lessons explain the tactics in current scams, so familiar pressure and impersonation patterns are easier to recognize.
For families
For the daughter who worries, and the son who can't be there every time the phone rings.
Give your mom or dad a way to ask for a second opinion, and turn on Family Circle if they want you involved. When a check raises concern, you can help them think it through without taking over.
The call no family wants
"Grandma, it's me, I'm in trouble, don't tell anyone." A familiar voice is no longer proof of who is calling. Family Circle gives everyone a separate way to check before money is sent.
The panic-call defense
Verify the person, not the voice.
Voice cloning means "it sounded just like her" is not proof anymore. One tap sends a separate verification request to your Family Circle, so a family member can respond from their own device before you decide what to do.
1
Tap "Verify a family emergency"
One tap sends a request outside the phone call to the people in your Circle.
2
Your real family answers
They respond from their own phone to say whether they made the call and whether they are safe.
3
You see their response
Scam Sentinel shows who responded and what they reported, giving you information from outside the suspicious call.
A perfect voice clone cannot defeat this. It cannot answer for your real family. Only they can.
On Apple Watch
Family Circle alerts, on your wrist.
Scam Sentinel brings Family Circle notifications and verification requests to Apple Watch.
A tap when a check raises concern
With Family Circle on, an alert can reach your wrist when your mom or dad asks Scam Sentinel for help.
Verify, right from your wrist
Getting a panic call? Tap "Verify a family emergency" to ask your Family Circle to respond through their own devices.
Just say the word
"Hey Siri, verify a family emergency." Hands free, the moment you need it most.
Coming to Apple Watch.
Coming soon
Known scam sites can be blocked before they load.
This optional layer checks web connections across your phone against an actively updated list of known scam domains.
1
Checks web connections across apps
When it is on, the network-wide check applies in your browser and in apps that open web connections.
2
Off until you say otherwise
This is entirely your choice. It stays off unless you turn it on, and you can turn it back off just as easily. Nothing changes on your phone without you asking for it.
3
Backed by real, current scam intelligence
It uses an actively updated list of known scam domains drawn from the same threat intelligence used in Scam Sentinel's other checks.
This is one layer, not complete protection. A scam with no link, or one using an otherwise legitimate site, may require a separate check and your own judgment.
Why Scam Sentinel
Honest help, not fear.
AI analysis, plus a detective's rules
Scam Sentinel examines what you share, checks it against current scam activity, and applies detection rules built from cases we have worked. On supported iPhones, some checks run right on your device using Apple Intelligence, nothing has to leave your phone.
An assessment with reasons
It explains the signals behind its assessment in plain language, rather than showing only a risk score.
Dignity, not shame
Scammers are practiced at creating pressure and confusion. We explain what we found without blaming you for asking.
Built in the USA
Made for US scam threats, with your privacy first. We never sell your data.
We don't sell dark web monitoring.
Your information is already out there. So is everyone's. The big breaches happened years ago, and no product can take your data back off the dark web. Paying a monthly fee to be told it leaked does not stop a single scam. It tells you about a past you can't change, not the one thing that actually empties accounts: the call, text, or email that reaches you next week and pressures you to act right now. That moment is what Scam Sentinel is for.
Our promises to you
- No surprise charges. You're charged the price shown, with no free trial, and you can cancel in one tap.
- We never sell your data. Ever. No ads, no data brokers.
- No fake alarms. We never invent a problem to sell you a fix.
- Plain verdicts that show their work, and cite the source when we flag something.
Who's behind Scam Sentinel
Built by a working cyber fraud detective, not a security firm.
Most fraud-prevention software is built by people who study scams from the outside. Scam Sentinel was built by a working cyber fraud detective, and the experience he has gained from years of real investigations shaped how it reads a scam and what it tells you to do next. It comes from Sentinel Vault, the security firm he also runs, which trains businesses and law enforcement to recognize and respond to fraud. But the edge here isn't a firm's playbook. It's a detective's experience.
Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when you want more.
Planned pricing at launch. Every yearly plan saves about 37% over paying monthly.
Sentinel+
$29.99 a year
or $3.99 a month
- Everything in Sentinel
- No daily limit on message, link and QR checks for everyday use
- Deep link scans that follow the link to where it really goes
- Unlimited investigations
- Phone number lookups
- Call and text blocking on iPhone
Best for families
Family Sentinel
You and one family member
$59.99 a year
or $7.99 a month
You and up to three
$67.99 a year
or $8.99 a month
- Everything in Sentinel+
- Family Circle, to loop in the people you trust
- Family Verify for the family emergency call
- Caregiver alerts
Prices in US dollars. There is no free trial: ask within 14 days of a charge and we refund it in full (see our refund promise). Billed by Apple on iPhone and Google on Android. Everyday use has a fair-use limit. Prices may change before launch.
Tell me the day it's ready
A second opinion, in your pocket.
Scam Sentinel is coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. Leave your email and we will tell you the day it is ready.