Trading standards officers have confirmed that AI is “super-charging” existing scams. Clones, fake websites, cloned voices of your nan asking for bank details. The scammers are getting faster. The fix, apparently, is a startup with a logo that looks like a shield and a pitch deck that looks like a hostage note.
The product is called something like Aegis or Sentinel or Vigil, because every security company in history has been named after a Greek guard or a medieval watchman. It promises to detect fake calls, flag dodgy websites, and verify that the person on the video is actually your boss. The demo worked perfectly on the founder’s laptop. Nobody has asked what happens when a scammer uses the same tool to test their scams.
The pricing page is hidden behind a button that says “Book a Call”. The call takes forty minutes and ends with a discount code that expires in ten.
The press release describes the platform as “a holistic ecosystem for digital trust”. Nobody in the building could say what that means. The investors loved it anyway.
It is a paperweight with a subscription. It will sit on your desk, look reassuring, and do nothing while the actual scam arrives by text message at 7am asking you to confirm a parcel.