Don't Get Scammed
A plain-language guide to staying safe online.
Every scam runs on the same handful of old tricks. This book teaches you to recognize them — in emails, texts, phone calls, and social feeds — in language your whole family can understand. Written by a 20-year IT consultant who's seen what happens when nobody explains the patterns.
Available in paperback, ebook, and large print — because the readers who need this book most deserve to read it comfortably.
About the book
In twenty years as a senior IT consultant, I watched the same story repeat: a smart, careful person receives one convincing message at one busy moment, and their savings, identity, or business is suddenly at risk. The details change — a fake delivery text, a "bank security" call, a romance that only ever asks for gift cards — but the mechanics never do. Every scam relies on urgency, authority, fear, or a deal too good to check.
Don't Get Scammed names those mechanics plainly, then walks through the most common scams one at a time: what the message looks like, what the scammer wants you to feel, and the simple habit that defuses it. You'll learn the thirty-second checks that catch most fraud, how to verify anyone who contacts you out of the blue, what to do in the first hour if something already went wrong, and how to talk about all of this with the people you love — including parents and grandparents who are targeted most.
There's no jargon here, no scare tactics, and no assumption that you should already know this. Nobody taught us these patterns; that's the whole problem. Consider this book the missing lesson — the one I gave clients across kitchen tables for two decades, now written down for everyone.