“Is this a scam?”
Now everyone in your family has somewhere to ask.
Your dad, your teenager, and you — one subscription, one Circle. Anyone can paste in a message, describe a call that just came in, or scan a code, and get a straight answer in seconds: what it is, and what to do next.
Everyone joins from their own phone. Nobody is monitored, and nobody is added without knowing.
Scams can present in all sorts of ways. Kept Safe has an answer for each of these. If it can be pasted, described, photographed, or scanned, it can be checked.
One subscription. Up to six people. Everyone protected the same.
Most scam tools are built for one person on one phone. Kept Safe is built around the group that actually gets targeted — because the scammer who calls your mother pretending to be your son is working on all of you at once.
- Your parentwho is getting the “grandchild in trouble” call.
- Your teenagerwho is getting the sextortion DM and the fake job offer.
- Youwho gets the fake delivery text like everybody else.
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Everyone gets the same app
There is no watcher and no watched. Every member checks their own messages and sees their own results. Nobody gets a dashboard of anybody else's activity.
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Joining is a code, not a handoff
Share a one-time Circle code. The person enters it on their own phone and confirms for themselves. That's the only way in.
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When it's bad, the Circle is told
A scam verdict sends an alert to the rest of the Circle — with suggested wording for the conversation that has to happen next, which is usually the hard part.
A phone call leaves nothing behind to scan. So Kept Safe asks instead.
A link checker needs a link. But the call claiming to be your bank, or your grandson, is just a voice and a memory — which is exactly why those scams work. Here's what happens when one comes in.
Say where it came from
Text, email, phone call, website, or something else. Pick phone call and there's nothing to paste — the app says so, and offers to ask about it instead.
Answer four short questions
Who did they say they were. What did they want. It takes under a minute, and “I'm not sure” is a real answer to every question — the app is built for someone rattled, not someone taking notes.
Get an answer, and what to do now
Not a score out of ten. A plain explanation of what the caller was doing and why it's a known trick, then numbered steps — starting with the one that matters most right now.
Four answers, and they mean different things
A yes-or-no verdict would be easier to build and worse to act on. Most of what arrives isn't provably a scam — it's off. So Kept Safe answers on four levels, in the same words and the same colours every time, on the verdict and in your history.
Nothing here matches a scam pattern. Any steps shown are habits worth keeping, not warnings.
Something is off, even though it isn't proof. Slow down, and verify with a number you already trust.
This matches a scam we know well. Don't reply, don't pay, don't click, don't call the number they gave you.
The same signal, turned up — money or access is already at risk. The steps start with the one that can still be undone.
Every check is kept
History holds everything you've checked, newest first, searchable and filterable by what the answer was — so “didn't I get one of these last month?” has an answer.
Bad news travels
A scam verdict raises an alert for the rest of the Circle, so the same trick doesn't get a second run at somebody else in the family.
For the moment after it already happened.
A verdict is only useful before you act. The Toolkit is for after — when the money is gone, the code was read out, or someone is already inside the account, and what you need is the first thing to do, not an explanation.
- 30 guides for the specific thing you did. Sent money to someone you've never met. Paid with gift cards. Let someone connect to your computer. Read back a texted code. Each one opens with the first action, not background.
- “I'm not sure how bad this is.” Four short questions, and it points you at the right guide. It's the front door for people too rattled to browse a list.
- Written for who's actually reading. If the person answering is a minor, the triage routes to a guide written for a teenager — not the adult one with the words swapped.
- Urgency is marked, not implied. Guides that can't wait carry an Act now tag, because at that moment nobody is reading carefully.
The best outcome is that none of this ever happens.
Eleven short videos to start, two to three minutes each, taught by Clayton — twenty years of watching how these people work, turned into the handful of tells that give them away. Watch one over coffee and the next call sounds different.
- 01What To Do When a Suspicious Call Comes InStart here
- 02The Grandparent Scam
- 03Government Impersonation Scams
- 04Tech Support Scams
- 05Gift Card Payment Scams
- 06Package Delivery Text Scams
- 07Bank and Account Alert Scams
- 08Romance Scams
- 09Prize and Lottery Scams
- 10The Verification Code Scam
- 11How to Spot a Fake Website
The first one isn't about a single scam. It's the general skill — how to handle any suspicious call — which is why the app puts it first.
For twenty years I sat across from families on the worst day of their lives. Not because they were careless — because someone patient and cruel found the exact right moment to push.
I started Cyber Safety Cop to teach the other side of that: how these people choose a target, how they build pressure, and the small number of tells that give them away every time. I've taught it to parents, to schools, and to police departments. The thing I kept running into is that a talk is over in an hour, and the call comes at 7pm on a Tuesday.
So Kept Safe is that hour, made available at 7pm on a Tuesday. And it covers the family, not one person, because that's how scammers actually work — the same story gets tried on your mother, then on your son. When one of you learns it, all of you should.
It's not antivirus and it's not a dashboard full of numbers. It's a straight answer at the moment of the question, from someone who has seen how this ends.
Peace of mind for the price of a cup of fancy coffee.
Every plan includes everything — the checker, the Toolkit, the Learning Center, and your history. The only difference is how many people it covers.
- Unlimited checks on texts, emails, calls, websites, and codes
- All 30 Toolkit recovery guides, and the triage that finds the right one
- All 11 Learning Center videos from Clayton
- Circle alerts, the family safe word, and your full check history
Billed through your App Store or Google Play account. Cancel anytime from your store settings — deleting the app doesn't cancel a subscription. Plans and current pricing are shown in the app before you buy, and the price shown there is the one that applies.
One person. 7 days free for new subscribers, then $4.99 a month.
Get Kept SafeUp to four people. 7 days free for new subscribers, then $7.99 a month.
Get Kept SafeUp to six people. 7 days free for new subscribers, then $9.99 a month.
Get Kept SafeThe questions families ask first
Does everyone in the Circle need to install the app?
Can I add my teenager?
Can other people in my Circle read my messages?
What happens when someone in my Circle gets scammed?
What if money is already gone?
How accurate is it?
What does it cost?
Set it up once. Worry a lot less.
Ten minutes tonight, and the next time something looks wrong, everyone in your family has somewhere to ask.
7 days free for new subscribers · Up to 6 people · Ages 13+ · Cancel anytime