Scam Culture is a $1.4 Trillion Crisis

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Flagged is turning victims into defenders and crowd-sourced and public data into AI-powered insight.

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Flggd's Pre-Seed Raise

Flaggd is raising a $300K pre-seed round at a $4.5M cap on a YC SAFE or Convertible Note.  Join our mission to stop scams and build the first trusted, consumer-powered anti-fraud platform of the future.

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Our Perfect Investor

Is someone who knows how to go from 0–1, brings others along, understands product-led growth and consumer behavior, values impact, believes in Public Benefit Corporations, and wants to help build something meaningful, lasting, and good.

Why Flggd?

Growing Problem

1 in 3 people scammed.  Averages losses now $5100+ per victim

Simple Product

One App.  Any scam Type.
Real-Time Protection
Live Education

Massive Opportunity

PLG Business model
Virality-By-Design
B2C2B Revenues

Traction

Early adopters
100's submissions
Feedback & Social Shares

Impact

Social Good
Public Benefit Corporation
Consumer Protection

Return

Early investors will exceed target returns

Why Now?

AI is making scams smarter;  fixing previous 'tells" - scaling faster - taught on human weaknesses & vulnerabilities

Scammers have industrialized - building compounds - enslaving trafficking victims - endless workforce

Every day we delay, thousands more get scammed; your parents, your colleagues, your users, maybe even you?.
This is about timing, not just returns.
Now is the inflection point.

Flggd is the first consumer protection tool to target all channels, methods and scam types​, provide education and live updates and build data for use by fraud tools, law enforcement & prosecutors

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Social engineering scams are evolving faster than institutions. Consumers need help now and Flggd is prepared.

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Founder Bios

Co-Founder & CEO

Richard Stocks

  • 1 prior exit
  • $100M Revenue contribution from products
  • Deep domain knowledge and network

Richard is a veteran product and fintech leader with 25+ years building data and analytics solutions for myriad industries including financial services, intelligence, and anti-financial crime. He’s advised 300+ banks, regulators, and fintechs, globally , and has held executive roles at AlertSpeed, SymphonyAI, Quantexa, and Pitney Bowes. 

His leadership has shaped over $100M in product revenue across cutting-edge RegTech companies. A Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and the son of two police officers, Richard brings executional grit, deep domain insight, and moral clarity to Flagged’s mission. 

After decades helping institutions, he’s now building the platform consumers need to fight back. 

He knows how to go from 0–1 and this is the product he was built to create.

Co-Founder & CTO

Jasper Wong

  • Built scaled platforms to serve 40K+ locations
  • Contributed to $20 million in revenue 
  • Domain knowledge in ID and access mgmt.

Jasper is a veteran technologist and skilled software developer with 30+ years of experience building scalable infrastructure, distributed systems, and product-first applications.  As Flagged’s Co-Founder and CTO, he leads engineering with precision, empathy, and a deep commitment to mission-driven technology. 

Previously, Jasper scaled platforms to serve 40,000+ retail locations and led teams at inStream and PongSpace. He excels at translating vision into robust, user-centric systems. 

Jasper holds a B.S. from RPI and an M.S. from Brown in Computer Science, with a focus on machine learning and distributed systems. 

Beyond tech, he’s a culture-builder, ethical computing advocate, and national youth mentor. Jasper brings not only code but soul, exactly the right co-founder to scale Flagged with speed and heart.

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Mission Statement

Stop Scams. Empower People. Build the World’s Smartest Defense. 

Flagged is the world’s first consumer-powered anti-scam platform, turning crowd-sourced, real messages into real protection, in real time.

Built for impact. Engineered for scale. Committed to justice. With goals to
Educate.
Detect.
Learn.
Share.
Fight back. 

A Public Benefit Corporation on a mission to protect everyone from social engineering scams while powering a smarter, safer, more accountable digital world.

The Problem

Global YOY Growth (2023–24)

  • Crypto Investment - 79%
  • Romance/Relationship - 61%
  • Impersonation (Bank) - 42%
  • Tech Support - 38%
  • Pig Butchering - 97%
Scammers don’t hack systems anymore - they hack the people already inside the systems.

Scams have evolved. Your antivirus can’t see them. Your bank doesn’t catch them. And by the time anyone realizes what happened, the money is already gone. 

This is Social Engineering.
We now live in a world where scammers don’t hack systems, they hack people. Social engineering fraud is a $1 trillion+ global epidemic, weaponizing trust, urgency, and technology to trick consumers into handing over their life savings. Whether it’s a fake call from the bank, a text from “Apple Support,” or a romantic interest on WhatsApp, the result is the same: authorized payments to criminals, with little chance of getting the money back. 

Social engineering scams are no longer the fringe. In markets like the U.S., U.K., and Australia, they now cause more losses than all traditional fraud types combined. Romance scams, crypto cons, fake investments, purchase frauds, tech support hoaxes are all part of the same modern plague. And it’s spreading. 

Yet most consumers don’t realize how exposed they are until it happens to them.

The Solution

Scams are psychological. So is our defense.

Flagged is a consumer-first scam detection and intelligence platform that turns everyday scam attempts into the world's most powerful anti-scam defense network.
Our mobile app helps users spot, decode, and understand scam messages; text, email, QR Code, screenshot, video or voice, with AI-powered verdicts, red flag signal detection, and real-world examples. Every user submission trains the system, improves accuracy, and strengthens protection for all.

But we don’t stop at alerts. 
Flagged offers:
 
Scam School – a gamified learning hub that builds scam literacy across all ages
Guardian Mode – for children, seniors, and vulnerable users under trusted oversight
Verdict Share – for virality, awareness, and social impact at scale
Community Reporting Engine – to spot emerging attack vectors and trends early

Behind the scenes, our platform enriches user data with global intelligence to build a real-time threat map and fraud intelligence insights, which fuels B2B partnerships with: 

Banks, fintechs & telcos (via SDKs or APIs)
Law enforcement, prosecutors & regulators (via reporting & dashboards)
Social media organizations
Threat and Risk Data vendors
NGOs & advocacy groups (via education & outreach tools)

Flagged is a Public Benefit Corporation with a freemium model, viral user acquisition, and monetizable B2B insight services.  

Every message scanned makes the world safer.
Every verdict shared helps others.  
Every scam flagged strengthens our collective defense.

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