Smart Tech for Real People: Scam Safety: A Practical Guide to Scams, Impersonation, Identity Theft, and Recovery

Scams are designed to make the next step feel urgent, familiar and ordinary. A message appears to come from your bank. A caller sounds like someone you trust. A QR code leads to a convincing sign-in page. An investment dashboard shows profits that may not exist.

Smart Tech for Real People: Scam Safety gives you a practical way to slow the pressure and keep control. Instead of asking you to memorise every scam, Greg Weir uses a repeatable process: Stop. Check. Verify. Then decide.

Learn how to:

• recognise phishing, smishing, quishing and deceptive sign-in windows;
• spot impersonation, romance, job, investment and tech-support scams;
• respond to voice cloning, deepfake video and AI-assisted deception;
• protect accounts, identity and payments before money leaves your hands; and
• act promptly after a scam without falling for a second one.

The book also explains account protection, first-hour response, evidence preservation, identity and financial recovery, and separately labelled reporting routes for Canada and the United States. The goal is practical confidence without unnecessary suspicion: pause, verify important claims through a separate path, and keep control of the next step.