About
Why we're building ScamPrep.
In 2025, Americans over 60 reported more losses to scams than ever before:
- $7.7 billion reported lost, up 59% in a single year
- More than 200,000 complaints filed with the FBI
- $38,000 lost by the average victim, enough to erase years of savings
Behind every one of those numbers is a family, and often a retirement, changed by a single phone call or text.
What struck us was the mismatch. If you've ever received a fake "phishing test" email at work, you've already experienced scam training that works. For more than a decade, virtually every major company has drilled its employees using simulated attacks and in-the-moment coaching.
Meanwhile, the standard offering for the people scammers actually target most is a pamphlet or a one-time seminar, whose effect fades within a month.
ScamPrep exists to close that gap: to take the most effective training methods we have and finally bring them to the people who need them most, with the consent and dignity that this work demands.
The founder
ScamPrep is built by Bryce Wachtell. Bryce spent his career at Google, Bain & Company, and an early-stage startup called Gatheround. He turned down business school at Stanford University to build ScamPrep after observing the growing threat of scams in his own community. Bryce believes products should be simple, elegant, research-backed, and unambiguously good for the people they serve.
You can connect with Bryce on LinkedIn
Our principles
Four commitments we hold ourselves to, in every drill, briefing, and report.
Independence, not surveillance
We don't watch bank accounts or monitor anyone's life. ScamPrep builds the skill that lets people keep confidently handling their own affairs. Empowerment over oversight.
Research-built
Every drill and briefing traces back to published research and to the scams currently being reported to the FBI and FTC. When the evidence changes, the product changes. See the research.
Proof over promises
No training can guarantee protection, so we never claim it. Instead, we show families measurable progress every quarter, and we make refunds easy when we haven't earned our keep.
Dignity first, consent always
We coach, we never shame. Nobody receives a drill who hasn't personally said yes, and nothing happens behind anyone's back.
We're in early access and building with our founding families and partners. Want to shape it? Get early access or write to us at hello@getscamprep.com.
A pamphlet on scams won't help. Practice will.
Family plans open this fall, in small cohorts with white-glove setup. Join the early-access list to be first in.