Spot the Scam: Recognise an Attack in Progress

Afterwards, almost everyone says the same sentence. Something felt off, and I carried on anyway. That feeling was the alarm, and the whole craft of a con is getting you past it.

Every scam runs the same four moves: the hook that reaches you, the lever that pressures you, the front that looks legitimate, and the payload that lands. Name the move you are looking at and the spell breaks, which is the entire skill this file builds.

Three real specimens are reproduced in full with every tell numbered and explained. You read each one with the key covered, count what you caught, then read the key. The gap between those two numbers is what the file closes.

What is inside

• Four moves, so you can name what is happening while it happens
• Three annotated exhibits: real specimens with every tell numbered
• A twenty-four row decision matrix, sixteen of them CORE
• Ten clarity scripts, including a refusal you can say out loud, calmly
• A one hour session run on your own inbox, plus eight field forms

When you close the file

• You can name all four moves of a con while one is in front of you
• Three real specimens read, with every tell numbered and explained
• A refusal you can say out loud to a caller applying pressure
• Sixteen CORE rows closed, in under an hour of real work

The format

30 pages, delivered as a downloadable PDF the moment you order. Read it on any device or print it at home. The eight field forms in Annex A are designed to be printed and written on.

Budget two and a half hours to read and work it end to end. One hour of that is a timed working session you follow live, and 51 minutes of that is the CORE work that closes the file.

Who it is for

Stands alone. No earlier file required, and nothing to install.

File 03 of 5 in the GhostNet series. Each file stands on its own, and the five together cover the whole of everyday digital security. Privacy Is Power.