Fictional example
THE CYBER SECURITY CHALLENGE
Spot the Scam.
A familiar name. An urgent request.
A link that looks almost right.
Eight situations per round, with 20 to explore. Practise everyday, workplace and tech career decisions.
Take your time. Use a hint. Replay for a fresh selection and learn something useful with every answer.
8 per round · 20 to exploreNo timerNo sign-up
Choose the best next step.
Take it with you:
YOUR INVESTIGATION IS COMPLETE
A little pause.
A safer next step.
This is practice, not a security certification. Scams can fool anyone. Knowing how to check and ask for help matters more than a perfect score.
Your field notes
Revisit the reasoning behind each decision.
01
Pause
Urgency is a reason to slow down.
02
Check
Use a trusted route to verify a request.
03
Ask for help
Report concerns. You do not need to be certain.
About the game & trusted guidance
Created by Coded Female to make cyber security more approachable. Phishing means using deceptive messages to trick someone into revealing information or taking an unsafe action. These scenarios are fictional and written for Coded Female. Example addresses are deliberately non-working text. Each round mixes concerning requests, situations supported by independent checks and cases where more evidence is needed.
No answers or personal details are stored or sent anywhere. Progress resets when you reload. Fonts load from Google Fonts; the game works with fallback fonts too.
Further reading: NCSC: spotting scams, NCSC: reporting suspicious emails, and CISA: multi-factor authentication. For work accounts, follow your organisation’s reporting and security procedures.
More guidance behind the new scenarios: FTC advice on job scams, CV conversion scams, task scams, voice impersonation and tech support scams. These sources inform the safety lessons; the messages, choices and explanations are newly written fictional examples. New content reviewed on 12 October 2026.