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Photograph 5 bag angles at the terminal scale: front, left, right, top handle, and airline tag.
Tamper-evident chain-of-custody for checked luggage
Prove the bag was yours.
VeriBag is tamper-evident chain-of-custody for international travelers. Seal the evidence at check-in. If something goes wrong at the other end, prove it wasn't you.
Early adopter program
Join the waitlist. Get protected today.
- +1 free protected round-trip at launch
- +Pre-Flight Manual Defense Guide (PDF, delivered now)
Device signed
Bitcoin anchored
Verifier ready
The problem
A tag swap can turn your luggage into someone else's crime scene.
In May 2026, a CTV W5 investigation identified at least 17 innocent Canadian travelers detained in foreign countries after their baggage tags were swapped onto suitcases filled with drugs. Sixteen of those 17 cases originated at Toronto Pearson.
The criminals are insiders: baggage handlers and ramp workers. The tag swap takes seconds in restricted cargo areas. Six baggage and ramp workers were arrested at Pearson in the past year. Many more cases remain undetected.
The standard advice, put a tracker in your bag, turns out to be what the smugglers are doing too. The same investigation found AirTags hidden inside drug bags, used by smugglers to know when to intercept them before they hit the carousel. Read CTV W5 reporting.
Why a tracker isn't enough
Trackers tell you where a bag is. They don't prove which bag was yours at check-in. That is the legal question when a traveler is detained abroad.
Manual defense
Flying in the next 30 days? Here's how to protect yourself today.
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Match the printed LPN tag string against your boarding pass and baggage receipt before leaving the counter.
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Take a timestamped possession selfie at the counter with your face, bag, and tag visible in the frame.
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Email the photos to yourself and a trusted person. Date-stamped email records create a basic, time-locked record that you possessed the bag at check-in. It's not tamper-proof like VeriBag - but in court, it's better than nothing.
How VeriBag works
Three layers of protection, all happening automatically.
You photograph.
Take photos of your bag, tag, and yourself at check-in. Takes 90 seconds.
You seal.
Confirm with your fingerprint. Your phone's secure hardware signs the record and anchors it to a permanent public ledger.
Anyone can verify.
If something goes wrong, share a verification link. Police, lawyers, embassies, or journalists can confirm authenticity in any browser.
What this looks like in practice
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Before the airport
Open VeriBag. Set up the trip in under 60 seconds.
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At check-in
Photograph your bag from five angles. Photograph the airline tag. Take a quick selfie with the bag. VeriBag seals these together using your phone's hardware security. The record is anchored to Bitcoin - public, permanent, impossible to forge.
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During travel
Your protection record already exists. If something happens to the bag in transit, the evidence was created before the bag left your hands.
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At arrival
Photograph your bag again at the carousel. VeriBag compares to the original record and flags any changes.
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If something goes wrong
Share your verification link with police, your embassy, your lawyer, or a journalist. They open it in a browser and see your original photos, the timestamp, and cryptographic proof that the record was created at check-in - not made up afterward.
Average time to use VeriBag at check-in: under 2 minutes.
What proof looks like
Anyone can verify a VeriBag bundle, a lawyer, an embassy, a journalist. No trust in our servers required.
Open sample protection record
vrbg.io/x72-99kf-b811-forensicDemo record. The live sample URL will be replaced after validation produces a real protected record.
Pricing
Free
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- 1 trip/year
- Basic capture
- English defense PDF
Traveler
$29 USD/year
- Unlimited trips
- Unlimited bags
- 4-language defense PDF
Guardian
$89 USD/year
- Traveler features
- NFC stickers
- 24/7 hotline
- Legal fee reimbursement eligibility
Per-trip
$9 USD
- One trip
- Traveler features for 30 days
- No subscription
Pricing in US dollars. Subscriptions billed annually via App Store or Google Play.
Founder note
I built VeriBag in response to the W5 investigation, drawing on experience designing multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure for Canadian businesses. The cryptographic stack is open for inspection, the verifier app at verify.veribag.io runs in your browser, and the product is designed to preserve facts before a crisis starts. Charles.
Press inquiries
press@veribag.io — Press kit, screenshots, and founder photo at veribag.io/press.