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Scam checker for your parents — with alerts for you
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Scammers target older adults every day with fake toll texts, "grandma, it's me" calls, bank-fraud alerts and gift-card demands. Most of us find out only after the money is gone.AskFirst gives your parent one simple place to check before they click,call back or pay.They paste a text, snap a screenshot or describe a call, and in seconds AskFirst says, in plain words, whether it looks like a scam and exactly what to do next. If it's risky, you get alerted, so you can step in before any money moves.
PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Security
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Commercial product
- Parenting
- Kids & Parenting
- Security
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Could you build this?
Yes A scam checker that takes pasted text or screenshots and returns a risk assessment is a thin wrapper around multimodal LLM APIs, with alerts built on standard notifications.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 293 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 294 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
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