For libraries, schools, senior centers, faith groups, and nonprofits
Free, plain-language material about the scams going around, ready for you to print and hand out.
Posters for the notice board. Paragraphs for the newsletter. Pages to hand to someone worried about a message. Take what fits, add your own name and phone number, and use it however you like.
Nothing costs money. There is no account, no login, and nobody's permission to ask for.
Three things worth knowing
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One message, big enough to read across a room. Print on whatever paper you have, and fill in your own name and phone number at the bottom.
A stable poster for classrooms, libraries, community rooms, offices, and public notice boards.
Good for: Public display. Keep it up between alerts.
The one rule that stops most account takeovers, in the largest type on the page.
Good for: Senior centers, waiting rooms, community rooms, and anywhere near a phone.
For anywhere money moves: a payment that suddenly changes is the warning sign.
Good for: Offices, finance areas, treasurer desks, and volunteer rooms.
Three questions, written for young people, with no blame attached.
Good for: Classrooms, hallways, computer rooms, and youth programs.
A calm, public-facing poster that names the pressure and points at your front desk.
Good for: Branch entrances, notice boards, and computer areas.
For job clubs and career rooms, where the people reading it can least afford to lose money.
Good for: Career centers, job clubs, campus job boards, and workforce programs.
Written to be pasted straight in and edited freely. Nothing here needs a designer or an attachment.
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A quick reminder about messages that ask you to hurry
Most scams work the same way. A message arrives, it says something is wrong, and it wants you to act right now — click this, call this number, send a payment, read back a code.
The pressure is the tell. A real bank, delivery company, or government office is fine with you hanging up and calling them back on a number you already have.
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If someone calls asking for a code, hang up
There is a phone scam going around that catches careful people, so it is worth knowing how it works.
Someone rings. They sound calm and official. They may say they are from your bank, the government, or a company you use, and they often already know your name and address. They tell you there is a problem, and then they say a code is about to arrive by text — could you read it back to confirm who you are?
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Before you change any payment details, please read this
A common fraud aimed at organizations like ours works like this. An email arrives that looks like it is from a supplier, a colleague, or someone senior. It says bank details have changed, or asks for a payment to go out quickly and quietly.
The details are usually right, because the sender has read real emails. The urgency is the part that is fake.
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A job should never cost you money
If you are applying for work at the moment, it is worth knowing what fake job offers look like, because they are aimed at people who need the work quickly.
The rule that catches nearly all of them: a real employer never asks you to pay to start. Not for equipment, not for training, not for a background check, not for a starter kit.
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That missed delivery text is probably not real
You have likely had one: a text about a missed parcel, asking for a small fee to redeliver, with a link.
The fee is not the point. The page it opens is built to collect your card details, and sometimes to get you to approve a much larger payment.
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If you click something you should not have, tell us — that is all we ask
Work email is a target, and the messages are much better than they used to be. They copy real branding, they reference real projects, and they arrive when you are busy.
The things worth pausing on: a login page that appears after you click a link, a request to change bank details, an urgent message from someone senior who is unusually hard to reach, and any attachment you were not expecting.
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A single page to give someone, or to work through together.
What WatchOut is, what your organization may do with an alert, and where the boundaries are.
A simple guide for anyone who receives a message, call, link, or payment request that feels wrong.
Immediate steps after someone clicked, shared information, installed something, or sent money.
How to handle suspicious messages and screenshots without exposing private information.
One page that helps staff and community members pick the right free service for what they have in front of them.
Small enough for a pocket or a front desk, for when you have one sentence to give someone.
A small referral card that gives staff and community members one safe next step.
For running a talk or a group session, including what to do if someone tells you they have lost money.
A 30 to 45 minute facilitator outline for a general scam-safety session, with a safety rule for what to do if someone discloses a loss.
The pages where your own details, local help lines, and current warnings go.
A fill-in layout for turning one published WatchOut alert into a dated page for a newsletter, packet, workshop, or notice board.
The page where your organization adds its own contacts, hours, languages, and the official reporting routes for your area.
Collections for particular groups. Ask us and we will tell you what we already have for yours.
Student poster, family handout, trusted-adult card, staff referral guide, and a safe discussion activity.
Large-print guide, patron poster, staff card, workshop outline, and current alert inserts.
Reassuring, readable guidance for older adults, caregivers, and family members.
Resources for donation, payment, community-member impersonation, and family emergency scams.
Guidance for fake invoices, payment changes, grant and donor impersonation, phishing, and account takeover.
Student, staff, housing, career, and payment-safety resources for campus communities.
Warning signs for fake jobs, task scams, fake checks, equipment fees, and identity-document requests.
Plain-language resources for government, immigration, housing, employment, payment, and document scams.
Resources for rent, deposits, utilities, debt relief, payments, and investment approaches.
Put one of these in your next newsletter or on the notice board. Check the date, and take the old one down when it stops being current.
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A real person reads these. You will not be added to a sales list.
The Cybersecurity Reach Foundation is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit. This material is general safety information. We are not a crisis line, a bank, a legal service, a safeguarding body, or the police — keep using the support and reporting routes your organization already trusts.