Family Sentinel

Standing watch over the inbox

We catch the scam email while there’s still time.

We spot the malicious emails and possible account compromise, a real expert confirms it, and we warn you and your family while there’s still time to stop it. And if something does get through, we walk you through the fix, step by step.

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$7.7B

lost by Americans over 60 to online fraud in 2025 — reported to the FBI by more than 201,000 victims

$38,500

the average loss per victim over 60 — often a retirement account, not a gift card

3.9M+

known scam domains and 88,000+ attacker addresses each screened message is checked against, refreshed daily

56

scams explained in plain English in our free Scam Library, so your family recognizes the pattern first

Sources: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 Annual Report; Family Sentinel threat-intelligence tables.

For families · first month free

Three ways to protect an inbox

Every plan is continuous monitoring — connected mailboxes are checked every few minutes — with a human who verifies a serious threat before your family hears from us, and a person you can reach if something happens. Read-only, enforced by Google & Microsoft — nothing to install.

One person
Concierge
$19/mo
One inbox with the full watch: every inbox message analyzed within minutes, plus mailbox-rules and security-settings monitoring for takeover signs. Human-verified alerts by email and the app, a personal phone call for the most serious threats, a person to call if something happens, and a watch on the banks and institutions you tell us about.
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Two people
Couple
$30/mo
Two inboxes under one plan — a couple in one home, or you and one parent. Human-verified alerts by email and the app, a personal phone call for the most serious threats, and a person to call if something happens, for both inboxes.
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Three to six
Family
$99/mo
Up to six inboxes under one plan — parents and adult children, even in different homes. White-glove setup for every member, custom watch requests, and a person who walks your family through a potential incident.
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  • Verified by Google for Gmail access, after its restricted-data review (2026)
  • Independent security assessment passed (CASA, required by Google)
  • Code changes security-scanned before they ship
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Which plan is yours?

One person to protect — a parent, or yourself — take Concierge.

Two — a couple in one home, or you and one parent — take Couple.

Three or more people — Mom in Plano, Dad in Waco, you wherever — take Family: one protective circle, one bill, up to six inboxes.

Why Family costs more than an app. Every member’s serious alerts are checked by a person before anyone is called, each home is set up with you by phone, custom watch requests are handled for the whole family, and when something happens a person walks everyone through it. That is human time for up to six people, and it is what the price pays for.

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Watch · Verify · Help

What happens when we find something?

What we watch for, every day:

  • Grandchild-in-trouble pleas
  • Fake antivirus renewals
  • Bank impersonation
  • Gift-card requests
  • Fake invoices
  • Hidden forwarding rules

1Watch: we detect and analyze it — the message, the sign-in, or the account change, weighed against everything we know about how scams are built.

2Verify: an experienced security professional confirms it — the machine flags it; a person decides whether it reaches you. That means triage by a working Cyber Security Architect with incident-response experience, so a machine’s false alarms don’t reach you.

3Help: the right person gets the call — you, or the family member you designate, with a plain-English explanation and step-by-step remediation. If an account or inbox has been compromised, we stay with you — triage, your questions answered, and every step of the fix walked through.

4You stay in control — you (or your IT provider) make any changes. Family Sentinel never sends, deletes, moves money, or takes over an account. Reading your mail is read-only, enforced by Google and Microsoft; the one settings permission we hold is explained on our trust page.

See the full process · Trust & permissions, in detail

Trust, in four lines

What we never do

You are weighing two risks: the scammer, and giving anyone access to an inbox. These are our answers to the second one.

Send, delete or change email

Our access to your email is read-only. Google and Microsoft enforce that on their side, not on our word.

Hold your password

You sign in on Google’s or Microsoft’s own page. We receive a revocable token, and you can cut us off in one click.

Sell, share or train on your mail

No data sales, no advertising built on your data, and no AI training on your messages.

Use fear to sell

No countdown timers, no invented statistics, no scare calls. Our reference library is free.

Trust & permissions, in full

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Straight answers

Questions families ask first

How much analysis does each email actually get?

Every message — not a sample — gets the full workup: sender authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) and whether this sender has written to this inbox before; every link unwrapped and followed through its redirects; attachments opened and read, including the text inside PDFs and any QR codes they carry; malware scanning; and language analysis weighted for the scams actually aimed at that person. Anything that looks off gets a second, deeper AI analysis, and anything serious goes to an experienced security professional — a working Cyber Security Architect with incident-response experience — before an alert ever reaches you. We also watch the mailbox itself for takeover signs: new forwarding rules and changed security settings.

What if an account or inbox has already been compromised?

You reach a person with real incident-response experience, not a ticket queue. We help triage what happened, answer your questions, and walk you through remediation step by step — securing the account, revoking the attacker's access, closing forwarding rules, and what to tell your bank or family. Our access stays read-only, so you (or your IT provider) make the changes with us on the line, which means you never hand control of the account to anyone — including us.

Do you read what is inside a PDF attachment, or just scan it for viruses?

We read it. Many scams aimed at older adults arrive as a clean PDF - a fake invoice, Medicare statement or antivirus renewal - with no link and no malware, just a phone number. A virus scanner correctly marks that file clean, because it is harmless; the harm happens on the phone call afterwards. We extract the text inside the attachment and judge it as we judge the message body, and we read QR codes inside PDFs and follow where they point.

Can you catch a scam sent from a real account that passes every security check?

Yes. SPF, DKIM and DMARC prove a message came from the domain it claims, and we run all three, but they answer whether the sender is who they say they are - not whether the message is safe. When a criminal takes over a real account and replies inside a real thread with new wire instructions, every check passes. We weigh what the message asks for, how it wants to be paid, and whether that sender has written to this inbox before.

Can Family Sentinel send, delete, or change my email?

No. For Gmail and Outlook, the read-only permission we request doesn't include the ability to send, delete, or edit anything, and Google and Microsoft enforce that at the account level. The one exception is a mailbox connected with an app password, which some providers require: an app password grants full access, so for those mailboxes read-only is how our software behaves, not something the provider enforces.

Can you detect AI-written attacks, voice-clone and deepfake lures?

Yes, when they arrive by email. Most scam emails are now written by AI — perfect grammar and warm personalization are no longer proof a message is safe. Our analysis judges intent, not spelling, and specifically watches for emails carrying deepfake voicemail and video-message lures, QR-code phishing, and AI-personalized impersonation that uses real family names and details.

Do I need to be tech-savvy to set this up?

No. If you can log into your email, you can do this. Setup takes about 15 minutes through the same Google or Microsoft sign-in you already use, and white-glove setup means we're with you the whole time.

Does a human read every message?

No. Automated analysis screens messages for threat signals. A real Security Architect looks at a message only when it's been flagged as a serious threat — to verify it before your family is alerted.

Could this ever break my email or lock me out of my account?

No. Your mailbox keeps working exactly as it does today — nothing about how you send, receive, or sign in changes. If you disconnected us tomorrow, you would not notice a difference.