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Phone calls
Email, texts & accounts
Money, shopping & scams
Apps, downloads & the web
Top signs of a scam
Scam phone calls
"A relative in trouble"
Fake emails & login pages
Scam text messages
Passwords, 2FA & breaches
Investment & crypto scams
Romance scams
Fake shops, subscriptions & gift cards
Job scams & money mules
Social media & marketplace scams
Dangerous apps & downloads
QR-code scams
Sextortion & blackmail
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Top signs of a scam
The five tells in almost every scam
Things you should never hand over
Scammers also target your good heart
Phone calls
Scam phone calls
"This is your bank's fraud team"
Fake tech support & "refunds"
The "just say yes" call
The fake helpline you found yourself
The "Phantom Hacker" — three callers, one script
"You are under digital arrest" — the call that won't let you hang up
"Go to the Bitcoin machine"
"An officer will collect your card"
"A relative in trouble"
When the voice sounds like family
Seeing isn't believing: deepfake video
Email, texts & accounts
Fake emails & login pages
"Your account will be suspended"
"Was this you?" reset traps
"Allow access" & device-code tricks
Scam text messages
"Your package needs a small fee"
Bank, toll & fine texts
The friendly wrong-number text
Passwords, 2FA & breaches
Why one password can sink you
Turn on two-factor — use an app, not a text
Never approve a login you didn't start
Money, shopping & scams
Investment & crypto scams
The "can't-lose" investment friend
Fake exchanges, giveaways & seed phrases
The "I can get your money back" scam
The "account recovery expert" — the scam after the hack
Romance scams
The partner who needs money
When the sweetheart is software
Fake shops, subscriptions & gift cards
Fake shops & ad-driven stores
Free-trial traps & fake renewals
Why gift cards mean "scam"
"Ghost tapping" — the tap-to-pay pickpocket
Job scams & money mules
"Get paid to like videos" task scams
Fake recruiters & money-mule jobs
Social media & marketplace scams
"It's me — I'm stuck, please send money"
Marketplace buyer & seller traps
The "ghost broker" — fake insurance sold in DMs
Apps, downloads & the web
Dangerous downloads & the web
"Paste this to verify you're human"
Fake updates, extensions & QR traps
QR-code scams (Quishing)
The mystery package with a QR code
The QR sticker on the parking meter
A letter from the "bank" or the tax office with a QR code
Sextortion & blackmail
"I recorded you — pay or I'll send it"
When a new online "friend" turns to blackmail
"We made photos of you" — when the images are AI-fakes