CyberShield Kids • Module 3
Scam Spotting
This module teaches elementary students how to notice scam warning signs in safe, fake examples. Students will learn to pause before clicking, avoid sharing private information, and ask trusted adults when something online feels strange.
Module Lessons
What students will complete
Module 3 helps students practice scam awareness using safe, fake, age-appropriate examples. The goal is not to scare students. The goal is to help them slow down and ask for help.
What Is a Scam?
Learn that scams are tricks that try to get people to click, share, believe, or do something unsafe.
Too-Good-to-Be-True Offers
Learn why free prizes, free game coins, surprise rewards, and impossible offers can be warning signs.
Strange Messages
Learn how to notice messages that ask for secrets, passwords, private information, money, or fast action.
Pause Before You Click
Learn a simple pause-check-ask habit before clicking buttons, links, popups, downloads, or messages.
Module Review
Review scam warning signs, fake prize messages, strange requests, and safe next steps.
Big Ideas
What students should remember
Scams try to trick people
A scam may try to make something look exciting, scary, urgent, secret, or too good to be true.
Pause before reacting
Students should slow down before clicking, replying, downloading, or sharing information.
Never share private information
Students should not share passwords, addresses, phone numbers, school names, or family details because of a message or popup.
Ask a trusted adult
If something feels strange, students should ask a parent, teacher, guardian, counselor, or school technology staff member.
Safety Reminder
Do not click real suspicious links.
CyberShield Kids should not include real scam links, real phishing links, real suspicious downloads, or real private student information. All scam examples should be fake, safe, and classroom appropriate.
Trusted adult rule
If a message, popup, prize, link, or online person feels strange, urgent, secret, or unsafe, students should pause and ask a parent, teacher, guardian, counselor, or school technology staff member for help.
Warning Signs
Scam signs students should notice
These warning signs are simple examples. Students should not try to test suspicious messages by clicking them. They should ask a trusted adult.
Practice Preview
Safer and unsafe scam choices
These examples help students practice scam spotting without using real suspicious links, real passwords, or real private information.
Safer choice
A student sees a fake prize popup and asks a trusted adult before clicking anything.
Unsafe choice
A student types a password into a game message that promises free coins.
Safer choice
A student does not reply when a stranger asks for private information.
Scam Spotting Rules
Rules for this module
Next Build Step
Next, build Lesson 3.1.
After this module page works, the next route should be /kids/scam-spotting/what-is-a-scam. That page will become the first individual lesson in Kids Module 3.
Continue Learning
Ready for Module 4?
After finishing Scam Spotting, students can continue to Kind and Safe Technology Use to learn how to use kind words online, make safe choices in games and group chats, and ask for help when someone is being mean.