Spot the scam before you click.

Free phishing awareness training for you and your team. It takes about 30 minutes, needs no account, and you can stop and pick up again whenever you like.

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  1. What phishing is
  2. Check the sender
  3. Links and attachments
  4. Pressure and money
  5. Sign-in pages and codes
  6. Texts, calls and QR codes
  7. What to do
  8. Spot the phish
  9. Final quiz

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What you will learn

Seven short lessons, a practice round with real looking messages, and a final quiz. Each lesson has a quick question to try.

1

What phishing is and why it works

How scammers think, and why smart people get fooled.

About 3 minutes
2

Check who a message is really from

The name on a message is easy to fake. The address behind it is harder.

About 3 minutes
3

Check links and attachments before you open them

Most phishing works through a link or a file, and both can be checked first.

About 3 minutes
4

Pressure, secrecy and money

The costliest scams do not use malware. They ask a person to send money.

About 3 minutes
5

Fake sign-in pages and sign-in codes

Where passwords get stolen, and how sign-in approvals get abused.

About 3 minutes
6

Texts, phone calls and QR codes

The same tricks, delivered in different ways.

About 3 minutes
7

What to do when something looks wrong

Nobody spots every scam. What you do next matters most.

About 3 minutes
8

Spot the phish

12 real looking messages. Decide which are scams, and see what gave them away.

About 6 minutes
9

Final quiz

10 questions. Get 8 right to earn your certificate.

About 5 minutes

Already passed the quiz? Get your certificate

Training a whole team?

Send everyone the link, ask them to finish in a week, and hold a ten minute chat afterward. Nexus IT clients can also take the course in the client portal, where we track who has finished.

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