Three cases, mixed from the stations. No time limit, no score to beat — just a short check that the tricks are still familiar.
New since you last practised
- Screening out nuisance callers: the calls station now shows how you can screen out numbers that keep bothering you — on a FRITZ!Box, an iPhone or an Android phone — and where to report such calls. On a FRITZ!Box they go to the answering machine: your phone stays quiet, and anyone added by mistake can still leave a message.
- No magic: how does a computer actually work? The new house takes you floor by floor from the power in the basement to the AI under the roof — hands-on, with no test. Along the way, some traps lose their power to scare: a sender is only text, and a virus warning in the browser is only painted on the screen. The matching floor also appears at the end of the inbox and pop-ups stations. Only your browser remembers which floors you’ve finished.
- Current warnings: the box on the home page and the course page now says it plainly: you don't need to follow every warning. Scams change, the levers behind them don't — and those are what you practise here.
- More variety in refreshers: the refresher now also brings back pop-ups, phone calls and shopping — cases from exactly the stations that are due. The reminder only appears once you've done the whole course; until then, “Refresher due” sits quietly on the station.
- Current warnings and passing it on: the home page and the course page now have a box linking to sites that regularly warn about real scams — Which? and Report Fraud. At the end of every station you can pass the exercise on: tap the name for someone else, and on a phone the button opens the share menu. Nothing is stored. The page Asking AI for advice now links to a background article on lostcontext.ai.
The refresher picks its cases in your browser, so it needs JavaScript. You can read all cases with their explanations on the station pages.
All companies, people, addresses and numbers in the exercises are invented. Any resemblance to real companies or people would be purely coincidental and unintended.