Stop scams & impersonation

Your phone should already know which call is a scam.

Scam calls, phishing links, cloned voices, and fake profiles all trace back to your exposed data. Here's how to defend against each, mapped to the KnytX product that handles it.

Know before you answer

Every inbound call and text gets a verdict against a verified-organisation directory and a fraud feed — a banner before the second ring, not a permission prompt after the damage is done.

Catch impersonation early

Fake profiles and leaked credentials are how impersonation starts. Dark-web and impersonation monitoring surfaces them while you can still act, with alerts that are worth reading.

Verify a face or a voice

When a video call or a voice message feels off, you can check it — face-artifact detection in about 90 seconds and real-time voice-clone detection built on a voiceprint only you control.

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The problem: the scam already knows your name

A scam call is convincing because the caller knows something about you — your name, your bank, a recent purchase. That knowledge was bought from a broker or lifted from a breach. Impersonation works the same way: a cloned voice or a copied profile is credible precisely because your real details, face, and voice are already out there.

So defending against scams and impersonation is really two jobs at once: block the attempt at the moment it reaches you, and cut off the supply of data that makes it believable in the first place.

Scam Shield is the layer between you and the attempt. Its passive layer checks every inbound call and text against a verified-org directory and a fraud-reputation feed, then shows a small banner — verified business, spam likely, scam likely, or unknown — and leaves the decision to you. On Pro, a preemptive layer warns you hours ahead when a scam campaign matches your exposure pattern, so you get a heads-up before the call lands.

Catch impersonation while you can still act

Impersonation starts before the scam call — with a leaked credential, a scraped photo, or a fake account. Vigil monitors the dark web and watches for impersonation of you, and sends alerts you can actually do something about rather than a firehose of noise.

Verify a suspicious face or voice

When the attack is a deepfake video or a cloned-voice call, you need to check the media itself. Deepfake Check runs face-artifact and voice-splice detection in about 90 seconds. Voiceprint goes a step further for the people most at risk of voice-clone fraud: a non-reversible voiceprint with real-time clone detection, so a faked “it’s me, send the money” call gets flagged.

Starve the source

Every one of these attacks is cheaper for the attacker when your data is easy to buy. Removing your listings with Shield makes you harder to target in the first place — scam campaigns struggle to run a pretext against someone whose number and history they can’t find. Defence at the moment of contact plus broker removal at the source is the full answer.

Where to start

Most people start with Scam Shield — it’s the fastest relief for the calls and texts hitting you today, and it’s the product this problem maps to.

Explore Scam Shield

Scam Shield puts a verdict on every inbound call and link before you tap. Pair it with monitoring and media checks to cover the whole impersonation surface.