About ScamReflex

We built ScamReflex to help people meet scams safely in practice before they meet them for real.

ScamReflex helps people build a reflex for spotting scams by sending realistic practice scams.

Why this matters

In 2025, Americans reported a record $15.9 billion lost to scams. Federal Trade Commission, 2025. The real number is higher, because most people never tell anyone.

The losses land hardest late in life. Seniors lose the most, often savings built over a lifetime, and that money is the hardest to replace.

The money is only part of it. A scam also takes something harder to measure: the confidence to answer the phone, open an email, and trust your own judgment.

Everyone gets told to watch out for scams. Almost nobody gets to practice on one. We practice fire drills. We practice CPR. Scams are an emergency most of us face untrained, and warnings alone do not build the reflex. Practice does.

What we promise, and what we don't

Practice lowers the risk. No training can promise you will never fall for a real scam.

Practice scams

We make practice scams look realistic on purpose, because that is how you build the reflex. But you are never left guessing: every practice scam tells you it is from ScamReflex. It is a safe training exercise, not a real threat.

Nothing you type on fake-site pages is collected. The forms do not save or send what you enter. They only note that you reached the page, so we can show you the right tips afterwards.

Questions or concerns? Email [email protected].

Who built this

About ten years ago, a scammer called me. He introduced himself as bank security. Usual imposter stuff: he wanted to help me protect my account, and he needed to verify some information.

The questions gave him away. He asked how much money I kept in my account. He asked whether my card was Visa or Mastercard, then for its last eight digits. A real bank already knows all of that. While he talked, I searched the number he was calling from: nothing to do with my bank.

So I decided to play along. I invented extra cards, a different phone, balances that made no sense. He kept working through his script, checking my answers somewhere on his end. Then came a long pause. The card numbers I gave him had failed his checks, he had run out of questions, and he finally realized I had been playing him the whole time. He got angry, cursed at me, and hung up. I laughed.

It was fun. And here is the thing I keep coming back to: it was fun only because I could see the pattern. I have spent my whole working life in tech, where spotting a script that wants something from you becomes a reflex. Take away that pattern, and the exact same call is frightening, convincing, and expensive. Calls like that take billions every year from people who never got the chance to practice.

I have built complex IT systems for many years, and the hardest problems were never in the machines. They were always between people: trust, communication, agreement. Scams live exactly there, which is why no filter and no warning stops them completely. A problem that can never be fully solved, sitting right where technology meets people, with real harm on the line. I love solving hard problems, and this one comes with a chance to protect real people. So I took it.

That is why ScamReflex exists: so your first scam is practice, not the real thing.

Roman
Founder, ScamReflex
Write me at [email protected]. I read every one.