Mobile app
Check suspicious texts, calls, and links on the go. iOS and Android.
Now in early testing
The Backgrounder mobile appand browser extension are here!
Our mission: detect, prevent, and analyze scams on any device, running actively or passively in the background. We're opening early testing for three new ways to use Backgrounder and looking for early adopters to help shape them.
What's in early testing
Detect, prevent, and analyze scams on any device.
Browser extension
Verify sites, sellers, and messages as you browse. Chrome, Edge, and Safari.
Email integration
Connect Gmail or Outlook, no install needed. Carmen reviews new mail as it arrives.
For individuals & families
Built for the moment something feels off.
We've all gotten the text or email that makes you pause and think, “is this actually real?” Sometimes we don't catch it until it's too late. Backgrounder is built for those moments. Using AI, security research, and open-source intelligence, it checks the signals you can't check yourself: is this number real, is this crypto wallet flagged, is this “colleague” who they say they are? You don't have to run your own investigation every time something feels off.
Before you act
Check any suspicious text, call, link, or payment the moment it lands.
Verify in seconds
Confirm a person, seller, employer, or crypto wallet is who they claim to be.
Protect your people
Keep your parents, your kids, and the people you care about covered too.
For business
Awareness and training alone aren't stopping these attacks.
Backgrounder integrates with the major apps where employees are actually targeted, starting with email and SIEM for IT and security leaders. Employees become part of the solution, and can protect their families too. A few things we've heard from security leaders lately:
“Attacks aren’t on the endpoint as much, and regularly get through the email gateway. It’s all social engineering employees in the browser, on the phone, and on personal devices across numerous apps.”
“Our C-suite and teammates should not be doing OSINT queries to determine if someone is real or fake.”
“The attackers impersonated the security team over Zoom, used OneDrive, and took 1 GB of sensitive data.”
“There are at least 5–10 scams a month that involve our employees on their personal devices.”
Early access
Be an early adopter.
Join the waitlist and help shape the mobile app and browser extension.
Join the waitlist