Help a parent stay ahead of the calls.
Start with their email: see whether it is in a known breach, free, without an account. Then set them up with their county’s scams in plain words and a button to check any text or call.
The short answer
Updated 23 October 2026 · Reviewed by the Sigrel team, Texas
Older adults lose the most per scam, mostly by phone. The pattern is a call with urgency and a request for gift cards, a wire or a courier. What works is knowing the week’s scams before the call comes, having a way to check a message in the moment, and agreeing one rule: hang up and call back on a known number. Sigrel gives the first two and makes the third easy to remember.
- Install Sigrel on their phone and set their county.
- Turn on Area Alerts and the weekly Scam of the Week.
- Set the same county on your own account and send them the week’s explainer.
Behind every scan
What is checked, how often, and what you get back. The details, in plain words.
Sources
3 breach-intelligence partners and public leak lists
Each one named in Help with what it covers.
What we watch
6 kinds of identifier
Email, phone, username, gaming handle, email alias and your own domain. Hashed on your device first.
Schedule
Rechecked on a schedule you can see
Every result shows when it last ran. Daily on Pro.
What you get
A fix for every finding
The minutes it takes and the points it gets back. Broker removal across 200+ sites on Pro.
How Sigrel helps
Plain words, big text, one rule.
Their county, this week
What neighbours are reporting, with what to do. Five cards, about three minutes, no feed to scroll.
A button for the moment
They paste the text or the number; the verdict says why in two lines. Or they send it to you and you check it.
The fixes, in minutes
A carrier PIN against SIM swaps, two-step sign-in, a credit-freeze walkthrough, each with the time it takes.
Who is targeted, and how
The grandparent call, the “IRS” call, the bail-by-gift-card call.
Figures quoted with their date and source, never a scare number without one.
FTC · losses by age
Older adults report the highest median loss per scam
The FTC’s data spotlights break reported losses down by age and contact method. The page links to the current edition rather than quoting a figure that goes stale.
Source ↗Sigrel · Scam of the week
One calm explainer, with a read-aloud version
Updated weekly by state. Send it to them, or read it with them on a call.
Source ↗Questions
Plain answers.
Can I see their alerts from my phone?
Not their account, no. You set the same county on your own account and see the same Wire and the same weekly explainer, so you know what they are hearing. A shared family account is on the roadmap; we say so plainly rather than promise it.
Do they need a smartphone?
Yes, an iPhone or iPad for the app. If they do not have one, you can follow their county from yours and send them the week’s explainer by text; it has a read-aloud version.
What if they already gave a caller money?
Open the “A relative was scammed” playbook. It is written for you to read aloud with them: who to call first, what to say, and the recovery scams that follow.
Is there a family plan?
Not yet. Each person has their own account; the free tier covers the Wire, the weekly explainer and five checks a day, which is most of what an older relative needs.
How do I set their county?
In the app, once, under Area. It can also be set from their approximate location at county level. Sigrel never uses or stores a precise location.
Set it up on their phone this weekend.
Free to start. The scan never stores their email.