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Dissect 3 real scam messages your family received

Digital money created digital pickpockets — and your family’s phones already hold the evidence. Collect 3 real scam messages, dissect their psychology with AI as your co-analyst, verify against official warnings, and arm your family with a cheat card.

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Posted by The AI Internships

The work brief

  1. 01Collect 3 real scam messages/calls from your own or family phones (screenshot, redact numbers).
  2. 02Dissect each with AI: paste the redacted message and ask it to name the urgency trick, the authority costume (bank? government?), the ask (OTP, link, payment), and the tells — then add the tells it missed.
  3. 03Verify against official warnings: RBI, your bank’s fraud page, or the cybercrime portal — link the matching advisory.
  4. 04Make the family cheat card: one small graphic with the 3 rules that would have blocked all 3 scams. Actually share it in the family group.
What you’ll produce4 deliverables

Submission standard

Submit the redacted scam screenshots, your dissection, the official advisory link, and the cheat card you shared. Include your AI workflow: your prompts and the tells AI missed that you caught. Show the cheat card actually posted in your real family chat, with the app interface and a date visible (blur names).

  • The 3 real scam messages, redacted (one image each)

    Image uploadRequired

  • Per scam: the psychological trick, the costume, the ask, the tells

    Written responseRequired

  • Official advisory matching one of your scams

    Public linkRequired

  • The family cheat card you made and shared

    The cheat card AND proof you actually shared it: a screenshot showing it posted in your real family chat with the app UI and a date visible (blur names).

    Image uploadRequired

You’ll complete these inside your private workspace.

How your work is evaluatedPass mark: 70/100

The passing benchmark is 70/100. Final score: Output 50% · AI process 30% · Evidence 20%. Required proof checks must also pass before certification.

Output criteria

Real specimens

20%

The 3 scams are real, received messages — properly redacted.

Dissection quality

40%

The psychology and tells are correctly and specifically identified.

Useful defence

40%

The cheat card’s rules would actually have blocked all 3 scams.

Required proof checks

Real specimens, really shared

The 3 scams show real phone-UI/redaction artefacts (not typed-out stock text) and the cheat card is shown actually posted in a real chat with visible app UI and date. Stock scams or an unshared card = fail.

Must pass
How we grade your AI usage30% of your score

Using AI is the point — it’s the skill this certificate proves. You’ll answer three short questions about how you used it: what you asked, what was wrong with its first answer, and what you changed. Specific, honest answers score high. “I pasted the brief and submitted the answer” scores near zero.