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by f1ay 16 days ago
So, full disclosure I’m a sec founder in the space, and was already planning on launching a solution deepfake “grandparent scams” right before hacker summer camp but this post was too on the nose to ignore so I ended up moving it up and launching the waitlist for dontscamgrandma.com tonight.

Long story short, some fraud associated events cropped up last year at work and I was concerned about my mom getting scammed, so we kitchen tabled it and I told her flat out will never ever call you asking for money" and walked her through some quick scenarios and left it there.

About 5 months later, someone called literally screaming, pretending to be me having just gotten into a car accident and killing a pregnant woman, then the phone transferred over to a 'lawyer' and she ended up getting scammed out of most of her life savings.

It sat really poorly with me, so I quit my dayjob at the end of last year and started silversight.ai to solve the ai scam / fraud problem for b2b, but I’ve been wanting to roll out something for regular people from the beginning. This post was the bump I needed to validate that other people were feeling the pressure.

So thanks for posting.

We have more features in the pipe, but as of today dontscamgrandma is backed by an engine that does regular recurring real time phone based training scenarios with an AI that roleplay's common grandparent scams with your loved one with the goal of getting them to recognize and defend themselves from sketchy calls.

Pretty excited to share it. Feedback welcomed https://dontscamgrandma.com