Can you spot the scam?
Ten realistic messages — some are fraud patterns, some look genuine. For each one, decide before the answer is revealed. Most people miss at least two.
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10 questions · about 2 minutes · nothing is recorded
Why practising works
Scams succeed in the first few seconds, when a message triggers urgency, fear, or excitement before your slower judgement catches up. Practising on realistic examples builds the reflex that matters most: pausing to look for the tell. Research by fraud-prevention bodies consistently shows that people who have seen a scam pattern before are far less likely to fall for it — recognition is the cheapest protection there is.
Every question in this quiz is a fictional, anonymised pattern modelled on scams documented by consumer-protection agencies — the same patterns covered in our 600+ guides. The "genuine" examples show what safe communication tends to look like: no links to click, no codes to share, no artificial deadlines, and directions to official apps or the number on your own card.
How scoring works
You get one point per correct call. After each answer we show the tells — the specific details that give the message away — with a link to the full guide for that scam. At the end you can share your score and challenge someone you'd like to keep safe. The quiz runs entirely in your browser; nothing you do here is recorded or sent to us.
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