The scamthat workssounds normal.
An hour, in your building, on how the current scams actually work and what to do in the ten seconds that matter. No slides full of statistics. Real messages, real phone calls, and the two questions that stop nearly all of them.
The ones going around right now
I update this every month, because the scripts change. What worked on people in January is not what is working now.
The voice on the phone
Grandchild in trouble, bank fraud department, the IRS. Why caller ID is no help at all, and the one thing to do before you speak.
The text that looks like your bank
Delivery fees, toll charges, a card declined. How to tell in four seconds, and why the link is the whole trick.
The screen that will not close
Fake virus warnings and remote access. What is actually happening, and how to get out of it without paying anyone.
What to do afterwards
Who to call first, in what order, and the window where money can still be stopped. Most people call the wrong number first.
Three ways to book it
Priced by the session rather than the head, so the cost does not change if twelve people turn up or forty.
Plenty of people will give a talk about scams. Almost nobody will then sit down with a worried eighty year old and actually turn on the settings that protect her. I stay afterwards and do that, because the talk on its own changes very little.
Not a sales pitch with a fraud slide in it
Nothing is being sold
I am not there to sign anyone up to anything. If a sponsor pays for the session, I say so out loud at the start.
Plain English
Thirty three years in Plano and a lot of hours at kitchen tables. Nobody leaves feeling stupid for having nearly fallen for it.
An hour, not a morning
Forty five minutes and questions. Long enough to matter, short enough that people stay.