She always caught you.
Off the bookshelf when you were three and sure you could fly. Now strangers call her every day with stories built to make her worry, and she picks up alone.
She was always one step ahead of you.
The stories change every week. She stays the target.
It's her bank's fraud department. It's Medicare. It's a prize with a fee to collect it. People over sixty reported losing $7.75 billion to fraud in 2025, more than a third of all the money reported to the FBI that year. And scams that start with a phone call take the most per victim, with older people reporting the largest losses.
The cruelest ones use your name. A frightened voice, a bad line, “Grandma, it's me. Please don't tell Mom.” She would do anything for you, and that is exactly what they count on.
She keeps her phone. The scammers lose theirs.
- Her number stays the same. You forward it to PhoneShield once. Nobody she knows has to learn anything new.
- Known scammers never ring. Numbers on PhoneShield's shared scam list and numbers with repeated FTC complaints are refused before her phone makes a sound.
- Family rings straight through. You, your sister, her doctor: save them and they ring like they always have.
- Everyone else says who they are first. A front desk answers, asks who is calling and why, turns away sales pitches and scam scripts, and lets real callers ring her or leave a message.
- You see what was kept away. A daily or weekly email for the family: the scam calls stopped, and anyone waiting for a call back.
Grandma, Grandpa, Mom or Dad: whoever caught you.
$29.99 a month for the first line, $19.99 for each one after it on the same plan. Set it up together in about ten minutes; she keeps her number, her phone and her routine. Cancel any time.
Does Grandma need a smartphone?
No. PhoneShield works with any phone that can forward its calls, a landline included. On an iPhone or Android phone, calls that pass the front desk ring the PhoneShield app like any call. On a landline, they ring a mobile phone or a family member's app.
Will she miss calls from her doctor or the pharmacy?
Save them as contacts and they ring straight through. An office you haven't saved meets the front desk, says who it is and why it's calling, and then rings her or leaves a message she can read.
What if a scammer says he's her grandson?
A real grandson calls from his own number, and that number rings straight through. A "grandson" calling from a number she has never seen talks to the front desk first, and his story goes into the family's summary instead of straight into her ear. No screening catches every scam, so agree on one rule as a family too: a call that wants money in a hurry gets a hang-up and a call back on the number she knows.
Does she have to agree?
She should, and we think it works best as her decision with you. She keeps her number, her phone and her habits. Family email summaries only go out once you confirm she knows about them and agrees.
How is this different from blocking numbers?
Blocking only stops numbers someone has already reported, and scam call centers change numbers every day. PhoneShield doesn't need to have seen a number before: anyone who isn't one of her people has to say who they are before her phone rings.
How much does it cost?
$29.99 a month, or $299 a year. Each further line on your plan is $19.99 a month, so Grandpa, Mom or Dad can have one too. Cancel any time.
More for families: how to stop scam calls to an elderly parent and the scams that still work on parents.
For every time she kept you from falling,
keep her from the scammers who keep calling.
$29.99 a month. Her number, her phone, your peace of mind.