Gmork Scam Guard
How to stop phishing emails at a dental or medical office
Staff inboxes are where phishing lands: a fake patient, a fake insurer, a vendor with new bank details, or a message that says it is a HIPAA audit and wants a login. Gmork Scam Guard Workplace is a browser extension for the office computers, in Chrome and Edge, that warns before someone clicks, signs in or pays. HIPAA-safe mode turns the AI check off, so email text is not sent out. It is not a HIPAA certification, and it does not make the office compliant on its own.
How an office uses it
What the warning covers
On the computer it warns about fake sign-in pages, look-alike and disguised sender addresses, links whose text shows one site but go to another, payment requests to new bank details, gift cards, and requests to install remote-access tools. For an unknown sender it sends only the bare domain to gmork.com, which checks whether a working website answers, whether the site forwards elsewhere, and whether the domain was registered recently.
HIPAA-safe mode
The plan owner turns it on once for every browser on the license. Staff cannot switch it off. The AI check and Ask Gmork stay off, and gmork.com refuses AI requests from those browsers. What can still leave the browser are bare domain names for sender and link checks, and the daily warning counts. A Business Associate Agreement is required before any AI use with patient health information. Ask your compliance officer before you roll it out.
The plan an office needs
Any business or practice use needs Workplace, including an office of 1 to 5 people. Free, Plus and Family are for home use only. Workplace starts at 5 seats for $25 a month, or $250 a year, with a 14-day free trial and no card needed. Larger tiers are 10 seats at $40 a month, 20 seats at $60 a month, 100 seats at $200 a month and 1,000 seats at $1,000 a month. Annual price is ten times the monthly price.
How this compares
Categories of tools, described by the job they do. This is not a review of a named product, and it does not claim what another company’s tool does.
| What you compare | Gmork Scam Guard | A webmail spam filter | An antivirus suite | Other browser extensions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | A browser extension that warns you about scam emails, messages and fake sites before you click, sign in or pay. | A filter built into webmail. It sorts mail the provider thinks is unwanted. It does not explain a sender’s domain, and it does not run on other websites. | Software that looks for malware on the computer. That is a different job from reading an email or a chat and warning you before you act. | Extensions differ. Some block ads, some store passwords, some flag sites already on a block list. This page does not review a named product. |
| Where it runs | Chrome and Edge on a Windows, Mac, Chromebook or Linux computer. Opera on a computer can install the same listing from the Chrome Web Store. Not on phones. | Inside that mailbox only. | On the device where you install the suite. It is not a warning inside webmail. | In the browser they support. What they check depends on that extension. |
| Scam and phishing email | Checks the email you have open in Gmail or Outlook on the web, and incoming messages in Messenger, WhatsApp Web and Google Voice. | Can move suspected spam out of the inbox. A message that lands in the inbox still needs a person to judge it. | Not built to explain the wording of an email in the browser. | Only if that extension is built to read webmail. Many are not. |
| Sender domain | For senders it does not already know, it asks gmork.com about the bare domain: whether a working website answers, whether the site forwards somewhere else, and whether the domain was registered recently. It also warns about look-alike addresses. | May use the provider’s own reputation. It does not show you those domain facts on the message. | Not what a typical suite is for. | Some flag known bad domains. Whether they explain a new domain, a forward, or a missing website depends on that product. |
| Sign-in, payment and remote-access downloads | Holds a risky sign-in while you decide, checks payment pages, and can pause a download of a remote-access tool such as AnyDesk or TeamViewer. | Does not run on the website you open next, and does not pause a download. | Some suites warn about downloads. That is not the same as a warning on the sign-in page in the browser. | Varies. This page does not claim what another extension does. |
| Optional AI check | Off until you turn it on. When it is on, a cleaned-up copy of the open email or messages is sent out for a second opinion. HIPAA-safe mode turns that AI check off. | A spam filter is not this optional check. | A suite is not this optional check. | Varies by product. |
| Price for home use | Free for personal, non-commercial home use. Plus is $4 a month or $40 a year for one person. Family is $8 a month or $80 a year for up to 5 people. Paid plans have a 14-day free trial. | The filter is part of the mailbox. It is not a separate scam advisor. | Usually a paid subscription for the suite. That vendor sets the price. | Some are free and some are paid. This page does not list their prices. |
| Business and medical offices | Business use needs Workplace, from 5 seats at $25 a month, with a 14-day free trial. Medical and dental offices can turn on HIPAA-safe mode, which turns the AI check off. That mode is not a HIPAA certification. | A mailbox filter does not add a workplace license or a mode that turns an outside AI check off. | A suite is not a workplace scam-warning license for the browser. | Varies. A business still needs to know what leaves the browser. |
Questions
Does Gmork have a HIPAA certification?
No. There is no official HIPAA certification for this software, and Gmork does not claim one. HIPAA-safe mode limits what leaves the browser. Whether the office meets HIPAA depends on its own policies, agreements and safeguards.
Can we use the AI check with patient email?
Not without a Business Associate Agreement in place first. Until then, keep HIPAA-safe mode on so email and page text are not sent to Gmork or any AI service.
Will it catch every phishing email?
No. It catches many common tricks. Treat the warning as advice. If a message asks for money, a login or patient files, stop and check through a number or site you already trust.
Try Workplace on the office computers
14-day free trial, no card needed. Add it to Chrome or Edge on each computer.