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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 produce

4 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)

    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 evaluated

The passing benchmark is 70/100.

Real specimens

14%

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

Dissection quality

29%

The psychology and tells are correctly and specifically identified.

Useful defence

29%

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

Real specimens, really shared

29%

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.

How we grade your AI usage

30% 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.