Learn to spot a scam
Phishing is any scam that pretends to be someone you trust, a bank, a delivery company, an employer, or a friend, to trick you into handing over a password, a payment, or personal details. It works because it copies things that look normal and because it catches you in a hurry.
The good news is that phishing is not endlessly inventive. It reuses the same handful of tricks over and over, because they are cheap to run and they still work. The seven lessons below cover the patterns behind the large majority of scams a normal person actually runs into, from a fake login box to a QR code on a parking meter. Once you can name a trick, you can see it coming. Each lesson is short, written in plain language, and free.
Phishing is not only a problem for people who are careless or not technical. Modern scams are well made, they arrive at the exact moment you are expecting a message from a bank, a courier, or your workplace, and they lean on urgency so that you act before you think. Anyone can be caught on a bad day. Knowing the patterns is what tips the odds back in your favour, whoever you are.
The lessons
Read them in any order. If you only have time for one, start with the golden rules, then come back for the specific tricks when you want to go deeper.
Where to start
You do not need to memorise any of this. The goal is to recognise the shape of a scam, the sudden urgency, the address that is almost right, the login box that appeared a moment too conveniently, so the next unfamiliar trick still feels off even if you have never seen that exact version before.
Fish Catcher puts these same checks in your browser and warns you, in plain language, when a page looks like one of these tricks. It never blocks a page. It explains what it sees and leaves the decision to you, and the reason it gives is written to teach you the pattern, so over time you need it less.
None of the lessons assume any technical background. They use plain words, real examples, and the same language Fish Catcher uses in its own warnings, so what you read here and what you see in your browser reinforce each other. Come back to them whenever a message makes you pause. That pause is usually worth trusting.