Part III: Smartphone Survival Kit

What you'll get from this part: Fourteen short chapters on the device in your pocket: scam texts and calls, cloned voices, fake alerts, spyware, impostors, job scams, the signs of a compromised phone, and the settings that lock it.

Texts, calls, the computer in your pocket

The phone is the front door. Text messages are now the most commonly reported way scammers first reach people.¹ About nine in ten banking-scam sessions recorded by the fraud-detection firm BioCatch now happen on a mobile device.²

Chapters in this part:

1. Smishing and the delivery text
2. Fake virus alerts on the phone
3. Vishing and cloned voices
4. Grandparent and family emergency calls
5. One-ring and premium-rate calls
6. Malware and spyware on the phone
7. Zero-click attacks
8. Wrong-number texts that become relationships
9. Agencies, one-ring, and fake support
10. Your bank says move your money
11. Job and task scams
12. Signs the phone may already be compromised
13. Daily prevention, written as a list you can finish
14. Lock the device itself