Introducing Scamwise: A Free Tool to Help Anyone Spot Scams Instantly

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Today we're launching Scamwise, a free tool that lets anyone quickly check if something is a scam. No account required. No paywall. No ads. Just a fast, clear answer when something feels off.

But before we get into what it is, we want to tell you why we built it.

Last year our mom got a scary call. Scammers had spoofed our sister’s number, cloned her voice, and then confronted our mom with a brutal and convincing hostage scenario. If she didn’t send money immediately, they threatened to kill her. Thanks to some quick-thinking and a lot of luck, mom narrowly avoided being one of the millions of Americans that fall victim to AI-powered scams every year.

We got to thinking about all the people who are not so lucky, all the people who try to figure it out for themselves, and especially the ones who don’t have someone to call to help them through it.

The emotion of the moment stayed with our mom long after the call ended. It stayed with us too, and eventually, it became Scamwise.

The problem is getting worse — fast

Scams have always existed. But what's happening right now is different. Americans are losing over $100 billion to online scams every year. AI has made it possible to generate convincing emails, realistic voice calls, and personalized text messages at a scale and sophistication that simply wasn't possible just a few years ago. The old days of bad grammar and generic greetings in an email from a Nigerian Prince are long gone. Today, scams look and sound like the real thing to even the tech-savviest among us.

We all sense it, and the data backs it up. Digital fraud is now the fastest-growing crime in America. It's hard enough to keep up with scams ourselves. For those of us with aging parents or teenagers, we're also trying to protect the people scammers target most.

The tools available to help haven't kept up. Legacy consumer cybersecurity products focus on old techniques like credit-monitoring, not scam prevention. Searching "is this a scam?" can get you answers, but it can also lead you down dangerous rabbit holes online. Other scam checker tools bury their answers behind ads, pop-ups or obscure data-sharing policies that make you wonder whether your scam checker is actually a scam itself.

We built Scamwise because people deserve something better.

What Scamwise is

Scamwise is the free, secure, and instant scam check for whenever something doesn’t feel right.

Here's how it works: submit whatever you've received — a screenshot of a suspicious text or message, a photo of a piece of mail, or simply describe the situation in your own words. You can also forward suspicious emails directly to submit@scamwise.com. Scamwise evaluates what you've shared and gives you a clear, calm verdict and guidance on what to do next within seconds.

That's it.

Why it's different

Better detection, built specifically for scams. Most AI tools are generalists—they can answer a scam question, but without real depth. Other services simply check your submission against a database of known bad actors. If the number isn’t flagged yet, they won’t warn you, even if the message uses classic scam tactics. Scamwise goes further. Yes, we check databases, but that’s just the start.

Our engine analyzes every submission for behavioral patterns and contextual signals—the subtle clues that reveal a scam before it’s been reported. That message that just says “Hey, how are you?” from an unknown number? We’ll flag it as likely a scam and explain why. A database never would.

Scams evolve constantly with new scripts and pressure tactics. Scamwise tracks emerging cybercrime behavior in real time, continuously tuning our engine so you’re protected against what’s happening now—not just what’s been reported before.

Any input works. You don't have to know how to explain what's happening or format it in a specific way. Use text, screenshots, photos, email forwards, even pictures of physical mail you’ve received or just a plain description in your own words. Scamwise is designed to work with whatever you have to share.

No ads. No pop-ups. Nothing in the way. We've all encountered "free" tools that make you fight through onboarding or ads just to get to the thing you want. We designed Scamwise to be the opposite of that, especially because the people using it are often already stressed and feeling pressure to decide and respond quickly. A clean, direct result is critical to the product experience.

Built for everyone. Scamwise doesn't talk down to you, doesn't drown you in jargon, and doesn't try to scare you into buying something. We show our work while giving you a calm, clear answer and tells you what to do next.

Try it — it's free

We built Scamwise for our mom. Now it's yours to use, too.

If you have something sitting in your inbox right now that feels a little off, go check it: scamwise.com

It takes about 10 seconds or less to get an answer. And if you know someone who could use it like a parent, a sibling, or a friend who's been asking "does this look real to you?", send it their way.

This is just the beginning

Between the two of us, we have spent our careers working on some of the harder problems in technology from building cybersecurity tools for government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, to optimizing audio and video streaming platforms for millions of users. We started Savi Security to protect families from scams and fraud in a world where the threat is growing and changing faster than the old tools can keep up. We believe everyone deserves sophisticated security seamlessly built into daily digital life. That’s why we’re here.

If that resonates with you, add your email address to the Savi waitlist at savisecurity.com so we can keep in touch, and follow @savisecurity on Instagram and Linkedin.

We’re excited to share Scamwise as our first product. There is more work to do!

We’re just getting started.

Patrick & Ryan

Co-Founders of Savi