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In 2019, my dad lost most of his life savings (almost £150k) in three separate scams, it was a life-changing moment for him and our family, for all the wrong reasons. In his case, he got most of the money reimbursed by the bank, however every year millions of people are scammed, billions of pounds are lost and lives are destroyed. At Ask Silver, we build tools to protect people from scams and help financial institutions protect their customers. We have a Scam Checker to keep you and your loved ones safe. It's free for anyone to use and we've been on the BBC, ITV, Telegraph and most media outlets, as well as receiving an award from the FCA. Try it out at www.ask-silver.com For Financial Institutions, we're building the first Know-Your-Transaction (KYT) platform. Think KYC, but instead of ensuring it's a legitimate customer, we help ensure it's a legitimate transaction - not your customer being tricked. See my pinned post for the longer version of my story. If you have a scam story please share it so I can raise awareness, or just connect to follow what I’m doing! I’m a second-time founder with a previous exit, building tools to protect our loved ones from scams and help financial institutions protect their customers. ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ On a professional level, I started my first business with my long-time friend Jonny at university in 2015. A few highlights include going from launch to £1m a year in 18 months (it was our third launch to be transparent), as well as delivering hundreds of thousands of stories to children all around the world to inspire them to learn language. We were on Dragons’ Den as well in case you want to watch an embarrassing video of much younger versions of us! On a personal level, I was raised in the words of Dusty Springfield a "son of a preacher man" in Latin America. I grew up bilingual Spanish and English, moved to the UK in 2008, but also lived in Italy, Denmark and Brazil. I’ve sunk hundreds of hours into learning chess openings and I probably listen to about 15-20 podcasts a week.