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Cybersecurity · CYB-103

Scam Detection

Recognize phishing, impersonation, and other common scams before they can cause harm.

LEVELBeginner
LESSON TIMEAbout 5 hours
FORMAT6 self-paced lessons
PATHWAYCDAP required

Practice and the final project time is additional to the lesson estimate.

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IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?

What to expect from Scam Detection

Anyone who wants to recognize and avoid online, phone, and payment scams.

What you will learn

  • Recognize phishing and impersonation signals
  • Pause and verify suspicious requests
  • Report scams and begin recovery safely

LESSON OUTLINE SAMPLE

How scams influence decisions

How scams influence decisions is more than a term to remember: it is a practical skill that requires you to understand the situation, select an appropriate method, complete the work carefully, and verify the result. Use this study guide to connect the underlying ideas to the decisions you will make in the lesson activity.

This sample shows the lesson goals and selected takeaways. Enroll to access the complete lesson notes, activities, and assignments.

What this lesson covers

  • Explain the purpose and everyday value of Scam Detection.
  • Recognize the core skills and safe practices introduced in this course.
  • Apply the introductory concepts to a realistic activity.

Selected takeaways

  • Scams succeed by creating urgency, fear, excitement, or false authority. Warning signs include unexpected requests, unusual payment methods, look-alike addresses, secrecy, threats, and offers that seem too good to be true. Stop, verify through a separate trusted channel, and report suspicious contact instead of responding.
  • Recognize manipulation: Learn how scammers create urgency, fear, and false trust.
  • For Getting started with Scam Detection, practice with sample information, verify the result, and record the safe process you followed.

COMPLETE SYLLABUS

3 modules · 6 lessons

6 follow-up assignments · 3 assessments
01
Recognize manipulationLearn how scammers create urgency, fear, and false trust.
2 lessons
  1. 1.1How scams influence decisions
  2. 1.2Spot phishing warning signs
02
Verify before actingCheck identities, links, requests, and payment demands.
2 lessons
  1. 2.1Verify messages and websites
  2. 2.2Recognize impersonation scams
03
Stop and report harmRespond safely when a scam reaches you or someone you support.
2 lessons
  1. 3.1Handle suspicious requests
  2. 3.2Report scams and recover safely

FINAL COURSE PROJECT

Scam Detection and Response Toolkit

Submit five annotated scenarios, a warning-sign checklist, verification scripts, reporting steps and a staff briefing, supporting evidence of your process, and a concise reflection. Do not include passwords, private records or confidential information.

Approximately 4 hours · Instructor reviewed

How success is evaluated

  • The project responds directly to the stated audience, purpose and scenario.
  • The submitted artifact demonstrates skills from multiple modules rather than one isolated lesson.
  • The learner provides evidence of testing, verification and revision.
  • The work addresses recognition, independent verification, evidence preservation, reporting and harm reduction.
  • The explanation is original, clear, well organized and suitable for instructor review.

GRADING AND CERTIFICATE POLICY

Progress by demonstrating mastery

This course is completed through verified evidence of learning—not by averaging every activity into a traditional grade. You can use feedback, revise your work, and resubmit when an instructor requests changes.

  1. Complete the lessonsFinish the required lessons and applied practice in the published course release.
  2. Pass knowledge checksMeet each assessment’s published passing score. Attempt limits and retry guidance are shown before starting.
  3. Demonstrate practical skillsSubmit required assignments using safe, non-confidential evidence and receive instructor approval.
  4. Pass the final projectComplete the course-specific project and satisfy its published marking rubric. Revise and resubmit when requested.
  5. Unlock the certificateThe certificate becomes eligible only after every required lesson, assessment, assignment approval, and final-project requirement is verified.
How grading decisions are made
  • Courses use mastery-based completion rather than an averaged GPA or assignment-category percentage.
  • Practice activities help learners improve and do not reduce a course grade.
  • The rubric displayed with the active assignment in My Learning is authoritative.
  • Accuracy, safety, privacy, accessibility, or ethical failures may require revision even when other work is strong.
  • Instructor feedback and earlier submissions remain visible when work is revised and resubmitted.

Published assessment requirements: Recognize manipulation knowledge check: 75% passing score, up to 3 attempts · Verify before acting knowledge check: 75% passing score, up to 3 attempts · Stop and report harm knowledge check: 75% passing score, up to 3 attempts

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Scam Detection