Protect yourself & your family from scams
After years researching scam tactics, three tools come up over and over as the difference between the people who get hit and the people who don't. These are the ones we use ourselves and recommend to our own families.
Recommended tools
All-in-one digital safety. Aura monitors your identity, finances, and online accounts for fraud — and alerts you in real time. Includes identity theft insurance up to $1M.
Get Aura Protection →Why you need it: Scammers exploit unsecured public WiFi — coffee shops, hotels, airports — to intercept the data leaving your phone or laptop. A VPN encrypts that traffic so nobody on the network can read it, even if they're sitting two tables away with the right tools. It also hides your IP address from data brokers who sell it to scam operations.
Get NordVPN →Why you need it: Blocks malicious websites, phishing links, and trackers before they ever reach your browser. If you accidentally click a phishing link in a text message, Threat Protection stops the page from loading at all — no chance to enter your password into a fake bank site. Works even when the VPN itself is disconnected.
Enable Threat Protection →Why you need it: Monitors the dark web for your personal info — email, Social Security number, credit card numbers — and alerts you the moment something shows up. Includes identity-fraud insurance that reimburses you for losses if a scammer drains an account. The earlier you catch identity theft, the cheaper and easier it is to undo.
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