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Show what you can do: Spot the Scam: Online Safety for Real Life Posttest

About 10 minutes. 12 questions, plus the same 3 confidence questions you answered at the start. Pass mark: 80%.

You made it through the lessons. These questions check the same skills as the Pretest, with new situations. Score 80% or higher to pass and earn your certificate. You can take it as many times as you need.

How this works

  • Answer every question, then select See my results.
  • If you score under 80%, you will see which skills need more work and which lessons to review. Then you can try again. The questions and choices will be in a new order, and some questions will be new.
  • When you pass, you will see why each answer is right or wrong and your own before and after results.
  • Your results stay on this device.

How sure do you feel?

Rate each line from 1 (not at all sure) to 5 (very sure). There is no right answer.

I can spot the signs of a scam and sort a message as scam, check first, or likely safe.

1 = Not at all sure5 = Very sure

I can lock my accounts and check a contact with a number I trust.

1 = Not at all sure5 = Very sure

I know what to do in the first hour after a scam and where to report it.

1 = Not at all sure5 = Very sure

Questions

1. An email shows your power company's logo and name. What does that tell you?
2. A caller says your account will close. Which line from the call is a pressure sign?
3. A caller wants you to pay with crypto at a machine. What is this?
4. A surprise email asks you to reply with your bank password. Which pile?
5. An email says your streaming plan failed to renew and shows a link. Which pile?
6. Which of these made up texts belongs in the likely safe pile?
7. Sam is making a new password for his email. Which kind follows CISA?
8. A caller asks you to read back the login code you just got. What do you do?
9. A text from "your phone company" says your bill failed. How do you check?
10. Your mom gets a call that sounds like you, asking for bail money. Why does a family safe word help?
11. You sent money to a scammer by bank transfer today. Who do you call first?
12. Someone used your name to open a phone account. Where do you get a recovery plan?

Your answers stay on this device. They are saved only in this browser and are not linked to your name. A random device code is saved with them so a survey you choose to send can be counted once. Your answers are lost if you clear your browser data or switch devices.