Draft — pending CSRF review. This is source copy. It has not been through editorial, safety, and link review, so do not print or distribute it to a community yet.

Poster

Stop Before You Tap

A stable poster for classrooms, libraries, community rooms, offices, and public notice boards.

For: All partners
Status: Draft, pending review
Version: Set at review

Drawing the poster…

What the poster says, as text

Stop before you tap.

A message can look real and still be a scam.

Pause before you

Click a link
Call a number in a message
Send money
Share a password or code

Check it with someone you trust. Then contact the company using a number or app you already have.

Your organization

Fill these in and they appear on the poster straight away — and on everything else you use here. Leave them blank and the poster prints with an empty box to write in.

Your organization's name

Phone, email, or where to find you

Your logo

Your logo stays on your own computer. It is not sent to us or to anyone else.

A large picture file you can print, email to a print shop, or put on a screen.

Or take the plain version

PDF Image— with an empty box to write in

Notes for whoever prints this

Print at the largest size your printer allows. It is meant to be read from across a room.
Fill in your organization's name and contact before you put it up.
This poster stays right all year. Do not add a list of current scams to it — those change.
If you add a QR code, print the web address beside it.

Before you distribute this

Use it: Public display. Keep it up between alerts.
Replace every bracketed placeholder with your organization's own details.
Open every web address yourself before printing it.
Current warnings live at watchout.report. Check the date on anything time-sensitive.

Use your browser's print dialog to save this as a PDF.

Cybersecurity Reach Foundation · cybersecurityreach.org · Current warnings: watchout.report

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