Egidio
The math · price vs. cost of a scam

What Egidio costs. What a scam costs.

Two columns of numbers, sourced, laid side by side. No appeal to authority — just the math, which you can redo yourself.

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The face-off

Egidio's price

Annual$29.99
Family (4 people)$59.99
Lifetime (one-time)$89.99

Cost of a scam

≈ $19,300 Average reported loss, all internet crime complaints, all ages $16.6 billion in total losses over 859,532 complaints in 2024 — FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Annual Report 2024
≈ $83,000 Average reported loss for victims aged 60 and older (elder fraud) $4.9 billion in losses over 147,127 complaints in 2024 — FBI IC3, Elder Fraud Report 2024
$16.6 billion Total internet crime losses reported to the FBI in the US in 2024 (+33% year-over-year) FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Annual Report 2024

The math, laid out

We take the sturdiest figure available — an official average, not an extreme case — and let it speak.

Years of protection

A single average internet crime loss, at the reported average of $19,300, represents:

$19,300 ÷ $29.99 (annual subscription)
643 years of Egidio protection

The percentage, inverted

Seen another way: the annual subscription represents

$29.99 ÷ $19,300 × 100
0.2% of the average loss from a single scam
4.1 cents
per day, per protected person — Family mode, 4 people, $59.99/year ($59.99 ÷ 4 ÷ 365)

Protection for the whole family, for the price of a coffee

$59.99 a year for 4 people works out to $5 a month for the whole family ($59.99 ÷ 12) — the price of a coffee a month, split four ways. Your parents, often the most exposed to scammers (see protecting your parents from scams), are covered under the same subscription as you — and it's older adults who report the highest average losses of all.

To compare on a daily basis: the annual plan works out to about 8.2 cents a day (29.99 ÷ 365).

What these numbers show, and what they don't. No protection is absolute — no tool can guarantee that no scam will ever get through. What this math shows is the asymmetry: the cost of decades of protection stays lower than the average loss from a single successful attack. It's that asymmetry, not a promise of infallibility, that justifies the price.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Egidio cost?
$29.99 per year, $59.99 per year for Family mode (up to 4 people), or $89.99 as a one-time Lifetime payment. No monthly plan is currently available in this market.

What is the average cost of a scam in the US?
It depends heavily on the type of fraud. Across all internet crime complaints reported to the FBI in 2024, the average reported loss was about $19,300. For victims aged 60 and older, that average climbs to about $83,000.

How many people does Family mode cover?
4 people under a single subscription, for $59.99 per year.