SENIOR CYBER ALERT
Helping Seniors Stay Cyber Safe.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which helps protect consumers reported that adults 60 and older lost more than $3 billion to fraud in 2025

And the FTC specifically says scam tactics targeting older adults continually change across phone, text, email, social media, and websites.

The FBI also lists government impersonation, tech-support, grandparent, romance, sweepstakes/lottery and related fraud among common scams targeting older Americans.

We are a senior citizen focused cybersecurity and scam-prevention service created to help older adults safely avoid the potential scams they encounter through email, text messages, phone calls, social media, websites, and other forms of communication.

our mission

We’ll Help You Identify & Navigate Harmful Scams

Suspicious Emails & Messages

Received a strange email, text, social media message, or notification? Send it to us. We’ll review the message and help you determine if it shows signs of a scam.

Suspicious Calls & Voicemails

Not sure about a call or voicemail you received? Tell us what was said and provide the phone number when available. We’ll help research the situation and identify common scam warning signs.

Links, Websites & Other Scams

From suspicious links and websites to pop-ups, payment requests, and unexpected alerts, we’ll help you understand what you’re seeing before you click, respond, pay, or provide information.

Our Story

Senior Cyber Alert began with a lesson our founder, Mike Dantonio Jr., learned much earlier than he expected.

When Mike was about 11 years old, he went online without his parents’ permission, believing he was purchasing an item from a legitimate website. Unfortunately, the website wasn’t what it appeared to be. It was a scam designed to deceive him, and Mike lost hundreds of dollars.

When he finally told his parents what had happened, they used the experience as an opportunity to teach him. They talked with him about the dangers of online scams and encouraged him to research fraud, deceptive websites, phishing attempts, and the warning signs that can help people recognize when something online isn’t right.

Mike took those lessons seriously.

As he learned more, he began sharing what he knew with others and warning them about things they should watch for online. During that time, something his parents told him stayed with him: older adults are often targeted by scammers and can suffer devastating financial losses when they become victims.

That became especially meaningful to Mike because seniors were already an important part of his life.

Through his community service, Mike regularly helps deliver food and essential supplies to seniors at local senior communities and residential facilities. Week after week, those experiences have allowed him to build relationships with older adults, listen to them, serve them, and earn their trust. Over time, what began as volunteering became something much more personal—he genuinely grew to care about the seniors he served.

So when Mike realized how frequently scammers target older adults, he saw another way he could help.

The experience that once made him a victim could now become something he used to help protect someone else.

That idea became Senior Cyber Alert.

Today, Mike’s goal is simple: help seniors feel safer and more confident when using their phones, email, computers, and the internet. Whether it’s a suspicious text, an unexpected phone call, a questionable email, or a website that just doesn’t seem right, Senior Cyber Alert gives seniors somewhere to turn before they act.

Because for Mike, Senior Cyber Alert isn’t only about stopping scams.

It’s another way to serve a community he’s already grown to care about.