01
Am I Dating a Romance Scammer?
1. Did this person become emotionally attached to you unusually quickly?
2. Have they told you they love you even though you have never met in person?
3. Do they repeatedly make excuses for why they cannot meet you face-to-face?
4. Do they avoid live video calls, or does something always go wrong when you ask to video chat?
5. Does their personal story contain inconsistencies about their job, location, family, or past?
6. Have they claimed to be working overseas, serving in the military, traveling for business, or otherwise unable to meet you?
7. Have they asked you for money because of an emergency, medical problem, travel expense, debt, or family crisis?
8. Have they asked you to send cryptocurrency, gift cards, wire transfers, or money to another person?
9. Have they encouraged you to keep the relationship or financial requests secret from your family and friends?
10. When you question their story or refuse to send money, do they become angry, emotional, threatening, or make you feel guilty?
02
Am I Being Pig-Butchered?
1. Did someone you did not know contact you unexpectedly through social media, a dating app, WhatsApp, Telegram, or another messaging platform?
2. Did the conversation gradually shift from friendship or romance to investing, cryptocurrency, or making money?
3. Does this person claim to have special investment knowledge, insider information, or a highly successful trading strategy?
4. Were you directed to an unfamiliar investment website, trading platform, or mobile app?
5. Did your account appear to generate unusually consistent or rapid profits?
6. Were you encouraged to start with a small investment and then deposit increasingly larger amounts?
7. Has someone pressured you to borrow money, sell assets, use retirement savings, or invest more to maximize your returns?
8. When you tried to withdraw your money, were you asked to pay additional taxes, fees, deposits, or verification charges first?
9. Has the person discouraged you from discussing the investment with your bank, family, financial adviser, or authorities?
10. Are you continuing to send money because you believe one more payment will unlock or recover everything already invested?
03
Am I Caught in a Tech Support Scam?
1. Did you receive an unexpected pop-up, phone call, email, or message claiming your computer or account has a serious problem?
2. Were you told your device has a virus, has been hacked, or is being used for illegal activity?
3. Did someone claim to represent a well-known technology company even though you never contacted that company for help?
4. Were you pressured to call a phone number displayed in a browser warning or pop-up message?
5. Did the supposed technician ask you to install remote-access or screen-sharing software?
6. Did they ask you to provide passwords, verification codes, banking details, or other sensitive information?
7. Did they tell you not to turn off your computer, close the window, or speak to anyone else?
8. Were you asked to pay for repairs using gift cards, cryptocurrency, wire transfers, or other unusual payment methods?
9. Did the technician ask you to log into your bank account while they could see or remotely control your screen?
10. Did they claim they accidentally transferred money to you and demand that you return the supposed excess funds?
04
Am I Talking to a Cloned Voice?
1. Did you receive an unexpected call that sounded like a family member, friend, executive, or other person you know?
2. Did the caller claim there was an emergency requiring immediate action?
3. Did they ask you to send money before you had time to verify what happened?
4. Did they ask you not to contact other family members, coworkers, police, or anyone else?
5. Did the caller's voice sound familiar but contain unusual pauses, pronunciation, emotion, or speech patterns?
6. Was the call unusually short, rushed, noisy, or designed to prevent a longer conversation?
7. Did the caller avoid answering personal questions that the real person should easily know?
8. Did another person, such as a supposed lawyer, police officer, doctor, or government official, quickly take over the call?
9. Were you asked to send money through cryptocurrency, gift cards, wire transfers, cash, or a courier?
10. Have you independently contacted the person using a phone number you already know rather than the number that called you?
05
Am I Being Imposter Scammed?
1. Did someone unexpectedly contact you claiming to represent a government agency, bank, police department, company, charity, or someone you know?
2. Did they create urgency by saying you must act immediately?
3. Did they threaten you with arrest, account closure, deportation, fines, lawsuits, or financial loss?
4. Did they ask for passwords, PINs, Social Security numbers, verification codes, or other sensitive information?
5. Did they request payment through cryptocurrency, gift cards, wire transfers, cash, or another difficult-to-reverse method?
6. Did the caller ID, email address, or website look legitimate even though you did not initiate the contact?
7. Did they tell you not to contact your bank, family, employer, police, or the organization they supposedly represent?
8. Did they ask you to move your money to a supposedly “safe,” “secure,” or “protected” account?
9. Did they become aggressive or increase the pressure when you asked to verify their identity?
10. Have you independently contacted the organization using contact information from an official source rather than information the caller provided?
06
Am I Smarter than a Scammer?
1. If someone creates an emergency and demands immediate payment, would you stop and independently verify the situation first?
2. Do you know that caller ID and phone numbers can be spoofed?
3. Would you refuse to share a one-time verification code with someone who unexpectedly contacts you?
4. Do you know that a familiar voice can now be cloned using AI?
5. Would you be suspicious of an investment promising high returns with little or no risk?
6. Before clicking a link in an unexpected message, would you verify the sender and destination independently?
7. Would you refuse to send money through gift cards or cryptocurrency simply because someone claiming authority instructed you to do so?
8. If an online friend or romantic partner asked for money, would you verify their identity independently before paying?
9. If someone told you to keep a financial transaction secret from your family, bank, or authorities, would you recognize that as a warning sign?
10. If you realized you might have been scammed, would you stop sending additional money rather than paying another fee to “recover” what you already lost?
