Scammers work your family every single day — fake invoices and grandkid emergencies aimed at your parents, sextortion and marketplace cons aimed at your kids, payment-app fraud aimed at you. Family Sentinel screens the household's email, calls, and account activity for the tricks that fool good people, and alerts the family the moment something looks wrong.
Read-only by design · Built and run by a working SOC analyst · Texas-based
A sit-down (in person or on a call) with you and your parent. With everyone's written consent, we link their email — and optionally calls and accounts — using the same read-only connections banks and Google provide. No passwords are ever shared with us.
Each incoming email is checked the way a security operations center checks corporate mail: sender forensics, lookalike domains, link reputation — then an AI analyst reads for the con itself: urgency, secrecy, gift cards, wire requests, sweetheart pressure.
High-risk contact triggers a text to you within minutes — plain English, with the evidence. You call Mom before the scammer's second email lands. Everything is logged in your family dashboard.
Anyone can promise to behave. We went further: the permissions we request make misbehavior technically impossible. The connections your parent grants are enforced by Google, Microsoft, and the banks themselves — not by our good intentions.
Why this matters: if Family Sentinel were ever compromised, the attacker would inherit our limits — able to see alerts, never able to send an email or move a cent. That is how professionals build systems for people they love.
The criminals don't segment by age — they tailor the con to the target. So do we: each family member's screening is weighted for the scams actually aimed at them.
Romance cons, grandkid emergencies, Medicare and IRS impersonators, tech-support renewals, recovery scams targeting prior victims — the flagship protection.
The classic SentinelPayment-app fraud, fake invoices and subscription renewals, bank impersonation, account-takeover attempts, password-leak alerts from data breaches.
You're a target tooSextortion scripts, marketplace and ticket scams, game-currency cons, fake job offers, "free trial" traps — flagged quietly to parents before it escalates.
Guarded, not surveilledPhishing, fake invoices, "your account is locked," inheritance and lottery cons, romance approaches — screened on arrival, family alerted in minutes. Nothing in the mailbox is ever touched.
Included · Available nowUnknown callers meet a screening line first. Voicemails are transcribed and analyzed for IRS impersonators, grandkid-emergency scripts, and deepfake voice pressure.
Add-on · Rolling outRead-only transaction monitoring through Plaid — the same rails your bank trusts. New payees, odd amounts, gift-card and crypto purchases raise the flag early.
Add-on · Rolling out“Fortune 500 companies have a room full of analysts watching their inboxes. Your mother has nobody. I built Family Sentinel to change that math.”
I spend my working days in a security operations center — reading attack traffic, tracing phishing campaigns, watching how professional fraud crews actually operate. The tooling that protects corporations was never offered to the retired schoolteacher living alone in Denton County. Same criminals, same techniques, no defense. So I built the defense: enterprise-grade monitoring, sized for a household, priced like a streaming subscription, and locked to read-only so your family never has to extend trust it can't verify.
The average reported loss for a fraud victim over 60 exceeds $33,000. A year of Family Sentinel costs about one nice dinner a month.
Only your parent (or their legal representative) can grant access, in writing, and they can revoke it at any moment. We read incoming mail the way a bodyguard scans a crowd — looking for threats. Ordinary mail is never kept; only flagged threats are held briefly (14 days) as evidence for your family, then deleted automatically.
They don't need to be. Setup is concierge — we sit with your family and do it together in about thirty minutes. Afterward, your parent changes nothing about how they use email or their phone.
No honest company will claim that. Fraud evolves daily; our job is to make your parent a dramatically harder target and to make sure a real person — you — hears about danger in minutes instead of months. Detection plus a fast family phone call stops the overwhelming majority of these crimes.
Connections are revoked, and stored alert records are deleted within thirty days, with confirmation. Your family's information was never ours to keep.
The family contacts your parent designates — typically an adult child — plus our small review team for high-risk cases, exactly as consented to in writing. Nobody else. Ever.
A 20-minute call with a working security analyst: we review their current exposure (email, phone, public records) and give you a plain-English risk report. No obligation, no pressure — it's genuinely useful even if you never hire us.
Book the free assessmentOr write to us: hello@familysentinel.org