Three steps to protection.
Office Guard Home checks the email and texts you already receive, the moment they arrive, for the marks of a scam. When something is wrong, you get a warning that says what we found, who it came from, and what to do. When nothing is wrong, you hear nothing.
1. Connect your email
Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, iCloud, AOL or your own domain. For Outlook it is a sign-in with Microsoft; for Gmail and the others an app password, with the steps on screen. It takes a minute and you do it once, on any device.
2. Install the app
Office Guard Home on iPhone or Android checks your texts: on iPhone, texts from numbers not in your contacts; on Android, every one-to-one text. On iPhone, a scam text is filed under Junk in Messages. On Android, a scam text gets a warning the moment it arrives, with the reason and a one-tap way to block the number.
3. Add your family
On the Family plan, invite up to four more people. Each connects their own email and phone and sees their own warnings. You see who is protected and how many warnings fired, never anyone's mail.
What a warning looks like
A notification on your phone and a card in the app, in plain words. No scores, no jargon. For example:
Critical
Check this money request
This message asks you to send money to help a relative who says they're in trouble. Before you send anything, call your relative on the number you already have.
Every warning ends with something you can do: call them on a number you already had, do not click the link, hang up and call the bank yourself. Warnings show in your account for 30 days, except a "Was this you?" question, which stays until you answer it; the record of each warning is kept for 12 months, then deleted.
What we check your email for
The scams aimed at people and families, not the ones aimed at businesses. A relative in trouble, gift cards as the only way to pay, tech support that needs remote access, a prize with a fee, the IRS or the police threatening arrest, a bank alert that wants you to click, a package that needs a small fee, a new friend or an investment that turns to money. Plus the two that catch everyone: a dangerous link, and a familiar name writing from an address they have never used.
Read about each oneWhat we never do
- Keep your mail. Each message is checked in memory as it arrives and let go. There is no copy on our side to read later.
- Change, hide, delete, or answer a message. We warn; you decide.
- Keep your texts. Most are checked on your phone; when the phone is unsure, the text goes to our server for an answer and is discarded.
- Show a family member your mail. The organizer sees whether your mailbox is connected and how many warnings fired for you. You can turn the count off.
- Sell or share anything about you. Read the security and privacy page.