An AI that answers your parent’s phone and turns away scams
Vicem answers the calls your parent misses or doesn’t want to take, says it’s an AI, and turns away scam calls before they can ask for a code or a payment.
Your parent stays the owner: the messages and the questions go to them, and nothing important happens without their yes.
- Every call starts with: “Hi, this is Sam’s AI.”
- It carries your word, not your keys.
- You don’t have to trust it. You can check.
- It can say no for you, politely.
What does it do for your parent?
- Turns away scam calls, so your parent doesn’t have to deal with them.
- Asks your parent before anything important, and takes no for an answer.
- Answers even when your parent’s phone is switched off or the battery has run down.
- Keeps what every caller said, so your parent can look back at a call they weren’t sure about.
- Talks to callers in their language and writes the message in your parent’s.
- Works with the phone your parent already has, with no new handset to learn.
What does every caller hear first?
“Hi, this is Sam’s AI. This call is transcribed. How can I help?”
Scammer or not, every caller hears that it’s an AI before anything else.
Who calls your parent, and what do they want?
- Family and friends want to leave a message and know it will be passed on.
- The doctor’s office or the pharmacy wants to confirm an appointment or a prescription.
- Scammers want a payment, a password or a code, and they sound convincing.
What does it ask your parent first?
- Sharing anything private, like health, money or where you are right now.
- Agreeing to anything in your name.
- Telling a caller anything about you that you haven’t confirmed.
The answer comes from your parent, and only from your parent.
It never gives out passwords or codes, whoever asks.
How do you set it up together?
Pick a name
Sit down together. Your parent signs in with their own email and picks the name, so the Vicem is theirs and callers hear their first name.
Forward missed calls, or get a new number
On your parent’s phone, forward the calls they miss or decline to Vicem, or get a new number for them to give out.
Vicem calls you to prove it works
Vicem rings your parent’s phone once. Decline it together, and when it comes back to Vicem, forwarding works.
What do families ask about Vicem?
i.Who gets the messages?
Your parent. They are the owner, so every message and every question goes to them. Set it up with them, and show them where to look.
ii.Will it confuse my parent?
Very little changes for them. Their phone rings as usual; only the calls they miss or decline go to Vicem, and they read the messages when they like.
iii.What does it do when a scammer calls?
If the call reaches Vicem, it says it’s an AI, gives nothing away and turns the caller away.
iv.Can I set it up for them?
Set it up with them. The Vicem belongs to your parent and signs in with their email, so it answers in their name and asks them, not you.
Where can you read more?
Set it up together this weekend.
Get your Vicem