ONLINE SAFETY

Nobody gets scammed on purpose.

Fake webshops, “free” game currency, a link from a friend who isn’t your friend. Two short guides: one written for 12–17 year-olds, one for the adults around them.

I’m a teen

I’m a parent

A parent and a teenager looking at a phone together

Two ways in

FOR 12–17

The reality check

Three messages, straight off a real phone. You decide which ones are real. Most people get at least one wrong, and that is exactly the point.

Take the challenge

FOR PARENTS

The conversation guide

How to talk about money online without sounding like a warning label. Includes a family agreement you can set up together in ten minutes.

Start the conversation

Why we built this

Young people are not worse at the internet than adults. They are simply on it more, in the places fraud has moved to: game stores, marketplace DMs, ads in a feed. Being tech-savvy is not the same as having been burned before.

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of 12–17 year-olds have already seen a payment scam aimed at them.

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say they would be too embarrassed to tell a parent straight away.

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of parents have never talked through what to do after a wrong click.

Figures to be completed from the Bancontact study.

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