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The call sounds real. The email looks real. That's the point.

Smart people get scammed every day - not because they're careless, but because scams are engineered to bypass intelligence. Urgency, authority, fear, isolation: the pressure arrives before your judgment does, by design.

Whether you're protecting your own accounts or looking out for a parent who lives three states away, Scam-Proof shows you exactly how it's done - and gives you the thirty-second habits that shut it down.

Through vivid scenarios drawn from the tactics real scammers use - plus the author's own family's brushes with them - you'll feel how a scam unfolds from the inside, then learn precisely what to do. Each chapter covers one scam and works the same way: the story, the mechanics behind it, and the defense.

Inside you'll learn to handle:

• The "your computer is infected" pop-up that talks its way into your bank account
• The text that looks exactly like your bank's fraud alert - but isn't
• The social-media ad with the impossible price
• The charge on your statement you never made - and the first hour that decides what it costs you
• The call that says a family member is in trouble and there's no time to think - even when AI has cloned the voice to sound exactly like them

Every chapter opens with a Quick Win box (the short version, up front) and ends with a Scam-Spotter Checklist. Two appendices turn the book into a household reference: the protections already built into your devices, and the ten account habits that make you a hard target - for you, and for the people you help look after, including aging parents.

No technical skill required. If you can send a text, you can do everything in this book. And nothing here is meant to frighten you - fear is the scammer's tool. What you'll get instead is the quiet confidence of knowing exactly what you're looking at, and exactly what to do next.

Parametry knihy

• Plný název: Scam-Proof
• Podnázev: How to Recognize Phone, Text, Email, Online, and AI Scams - and Protect Your Money and the People You Love
• Autor: MJ Pierce
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 164
• EAN: 9798193507697
• ID: 53596394
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 230 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 9 mm
• Datum vydání: 21. August 2026

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