We saw how
fraud works
from the inside.
suss. was founded by members of the TikTok North America Risk team. We built content integrity and fraud detection systems serving hundreds of millions of users. We saw what platforms catch. We saw what they miss. We saw the gap between transaction fraud tools and the social engineering that precedes every loss.
suss. exists to close that gap.
Trust is the
scarcest resource
online.
Fraud tools catch transactions. We catch conversations.
72% of scam losses start with a message, not a payment. By the time traditional fraud tools flag it, the victim has already sent the wire. suss. intervenes at the moment of deception, not the moment of loss.
Protection should be ambient, not opt-in.
The people who need protection most are the least likely to download a security app. suss. deploys through institutions as a member benefit. One policy, zero onboarding, ambient from day one.
Guidance changes behavior. Blocking doesn't.
Telling someone “this is blocked” teaches them nothing. Telling them “this is a romance scam, here is what the attacker will do next, and here is how to verify independently” teaches them to protect themselves forever.
Absence of data is not evidence of risk.
A new website is not a scam website. An unknown phone number is not a scam number. Every trust system that treats unknowns as threats trains its users to ignore warnings. We refuse to build that.
Let's build
trust together.
We work with universities, banks, credit unions, and organizations that serve communities worth protecting. If that sounds like you, we should talk.