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ScamLifeguard
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Hey - we started a company called Lifeguard to focus on exactly this! We focus on three parts: education (quick elearnings), finding/removing data (dark web scan, data broker removal), and auto-protection (chrome extension, iOS app, email integration - to label or block scam messages). I would love to talk to you to hear what product features would be most important for you. Please email me at kevin at trylifeguard.com
ScamLifeguard
·hace 8 meses·discuss
This is really useful feedback, thanks for sharing. And 100% agree it is an interesting dynamic and I think there are a lot of people who share the "I don't want to give you my data" mindset. The original idea we started with was focused on elearning - trying to make really simple, short, effective lessons to highlight basic patterns for users to identify fraud & scams online. We have generic lessons on various channels (txts, emails, paper mail, phone, etc) and then we have scam specific lessons (grandparent scam, forgotten password scam, etc). We got some early feedback from users that were more in the "can you just automatically handle/prevent the scams from getting to my inbox!" so we expanded there. What do you think about eLearning content? I kind of view it as "I'm the IT admin for my mom and I set her the goal to complete one of the trainings." And again, thanks for the feedback you provided already.
ScamLifeguard
·hace 8 meses·discuss
The scams that people don't even know they are getting scammed on - GenZ has the one of the highest scam rates, but the dollar amount per scam is way low and they often dont even know they were scammed. Also, the political donation scams where the people "think" they are giving to a party or candidate but nope, just a PAC that spends all the money its collects on "operations" and "consulting fees" to its partners. Wild times.
ScamLifeguard
·hace 8 meses·discuss
We recently started a company to help with this exact situation! I would love to pick your brain about what features you would be most interested for helping protect your parents. If you'd be willing to chat can you email me at kevin at trylifeguard.com ?
ScamLifeguard
·hace 8 meses·discuss
I started a company a few months ago that is trying to help people like you do exactly this! I would love to chat with you to hear what has worked, what hasn't, what product features you would be most excited about. If you'd be willing to chat, please email me kevin at trylifeguard.com
ScamLifeguard
·hace 8 meses·discuss
It's so funny how millennials grew up and we were told "Don't trust the internet, you can't cite wikipedia, the internet is all a lie" And now, I look around and the people who engrained that in us just never listened to what they were telling us. And somehow, no one thought to tell that to Gen Z so they just just get scammed a ton.
ScamLifeguard
·hace 8 meses·discuss
Not a joke at all these days, I was at home with my mother for 2 weeks helping her with stuff around the house, watching how she uses her phone, scrolls facebook, clicks on everything, it was really shocking for me. I looked around and didn't see the product I wanted to help me help her, so we started a company to try and give tools to help make it easier for people like us (techy people) who want to protect our loved ones. Our original idea was around education/elearning and we have expanded to doing real integrations to just stop the spam from getting in inboxes (gmail, SMS, call filtering).