Questions about the Everyday Scams poster

What’s on the Everyday Scams poster?

14 entries in 3 groups. The tactics are consistent even as the stories change. Universal red flags: Urgency and pressure, A request for secrecy, Payment by transfer…; Common forms: Bank impersonation, Delivery or parcel texts, Invoice interception on h…; Defences: Hang up; call back on a number you looked up, Wait ten minutes before actin…. Bank staff, police and tax authorities never ask you to transfer money for safekeeping. That request identifies the scam.

Who is the Everyday Scams poster for?

Everyday Scams belongs to the Money section rather than to a school year, because money is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning basics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Everyday Scams poster?

No genuine organisation asks you to move money to a 'safe account'. None. Ever. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Everyday Scams belongs on the wall where that money work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Everyday Scams?

Structuring Accounts, The 50/30/20 Budget and How You Pay Changes What You Spend sit alongside Everyday Scams in the Money section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Structuring AccountsThe 50/30/20 BudgetHow You Pay Changes What You Spend

Is the Everyday Scams poster free to download and print?

Yes. Everyday Scams downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Money section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Everyday Scams poster print at?

Everyday Scams is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Everyday Scams loses nothing.Printing guide