WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 40
This safety lesson covers common scam patterns targeting older adults, including family-emergency impersonation, romance scams, tech-support scams, bank and payment fraud, delivery-text phishing, investment scams, Medicare and health scams, fake shopping sites, account takeover, and AI voice or deepfake impersonation.
Class activity
Play Scam or Safe? Identify urgency, secrecy, unusual payment requests, suspicious links, requests for credentials, and emotional pressure.
Key takeaway: STOP → THINK → VERIFY. Never send money or sensitive information because someone pressures you to act immediately.
Recovered from the original WackyCoder Senior AI Lesson 40 archive.