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Spot the Hook
Phishing and scare-DMs. Three scenarios, the same three tells, one safe move.
~3.5 minReady
Cyber-safety education · Grades 9–12
The internet raised your kids.
The internet raised your kids.
We teach them to outsmart it.
Argos Guardian turns online safety into something students actually watch — short, cinematic lessons that show real scams the way kids really see them, then hand over the moves to shut them down.
Guardian Safe
No ads · we never sell kids' data · no profiling of children
Red flag
Direct messages
IG
@insta_support_team
Your account will be disabled in 24 hours for suspicious activity. Verify now to keep it:
Your account will be disabled in 24 hours for suspicious activity. Verify now to keep it:
instagram-verify-account.com/login
now · tap to open
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Guardian says: It rushes you. The link is almost right. It wants your password on their page. That's three tells — it's a scam.
Stop · open the real app yourself
Why this matters
Kids don't get attacked in a dark alley. They get attacked in their DMs.
The same tricks that fool adults are aimed at teenagers every day — dressed up in the apps, games and group chats they live in. Most have never been taught to see them coming.
Phishing DMs
"Your account will be disabled." Fake logins that steal the password to their whole online life.
Fake giveaways
Verified-looking celebrities and brands promising free stuff — engineered to harvest accounts and cash.
Game scams
Free-skin generators, fake trades and "share your 2FA code" — where an account is the real currency.
Online pressure
Strangers who move fast to build trust, then push. Knowing the pattern is the first line of defense.
How Guardian teaches
Almost every scam gives itself away with the same three tells.
We don't hand kids a list of a hundred threats to memorize. We teach one pattern that unmasks nearly all of them — so a scam they've never seen still feels wrong.
It rushes you
A countdown. "24 hours." "Act now or lose it." Real companies don't panic you into clicking. Urgency is the tell.
⏱ 00:23:59 remaining…
The link is almost right
One letter off. A word bolted on. It looks like the real site until you actually read it — so we teach kids to read it.
instagram-verify-account.com
It wants you to log in on their page
Never the real app — a look-alike that exists only to catch a password. The safe move is to open the app yourself.
→ not the real login
And one move that keeps them safe.
Stop
Don't tap while the clock is ticking. That pause is the whole game.
Open the real app
Go to the app yourself. If it's real, it'll be there too.
Ask someone
A quick "is this real?" to an adult beats a wrong guess every time.
Report & delete
Report it in-app, delete it, move on. No shame, no clicked link.
The lessons
Four modules. Real scenarios. Three to four minutes each.
Every lesson plays like a short film a teenager would actually finish — captioned so it works with the sound off, then closes with an interactive drill that checks they can spot it themselves.
02
Fake Famous
Impersonation, fake celebrity DMs, brand giveaways and catfishing-for-cash.
~2 minReady
03
Played
In-game scams: free-currency generators, fake trades and 2FA-code theft.
~2 minReady
04
When Someone Pressures You Online
Grooming and coercion — the sensitive one, developed with child-safety guidance.
In expert review
Threats change. So do we.
One family. One defense — now for everyone in it.
Guardian started by teaching kids to outsmart the scams in their DMs. The same practitioner playbook now protects the people those threats target next — seniors facing Medicare fraud, the first responders who protect the rest of us, and the veterans who served our country. Fresh lessons, free to watch, one for each.
For seniorsFree · 3 min
The Card They Want
The calls that want your Medicare number — “free” braces, “free” tests, “your card is expiring.” The three tells, and how to hang up with confidence.
Medicare & health-insurance fraud →For families & teensFree · 3 min
The Screenshot That Won’t Delete
The DM that turns friendly into a threat — cyberbullying and sextortion. The tells, the one calm move, and the free help that stops it.
▶ Watch free →For first respondersFree · 3 min
The Same Courage, Turned Inward
A confidential wellbeing check-in for police, fire and EMS — the signs a crewmate might show, and the lines answered by people who’ve worn the boots.
Protect the protectors →
To those who served
Thank you for your service.
You defended the rest of us — the least we can do is have your back online and stand beside you off the battlefield. Argos Guardian gives every veteran free cyber-safety training against VA and benefits scams, honest PTSD & mental-health awareness, and verified national and local support lines. No cost, no catch.
- The same free lessons — plus the scams that target those who served.
- PTSD & mental-health support, answered by people who get it.
- Veterans Crisis Line — 988, then press 1 · text 838255 — free, 24/7.
Who Guardian is for
Built for the whole family — including the people who protect us.
For schools
Drop-in digital-citizenship lessons with zero prep. Standards-aligned, classroom-ready, and short enough to fit a single period. Run a free pilot this term.
Explore for schoolsFor parents
See what your kid actually faces — then watch a lesson together. No lecture required; the scenarios start the conversation for you.
Explore for parentsFor seniors
The scams aimed at older adults — Medicare and health-insurance fraud, robocalls, “free” offers that want your number — in one short, plain-spoken lesson. Free, no sign-up.
Explore for seniorsFor first responders
A confidential 3-minute wellbeing check-in for police, fire and EMS — the signs a crewmate might show, and the lines answered by people who’ve worn the boots. Awareness, not a diagnosis.
Explore for first responders
Why we built this
We protect businesses from these exact attacks every day. The people getting hit hardest — and taught the least — are kids. — Intelligent Automation, the security team behind Argos Guardian
- Built by practitioners. The same team that runs a real security operation for businesses — not a marketing quiz dressed up as a course.
- Made for how kids watch. Cinematic, captioned, honest about the apps they actually use — no cringe, no fear-mongering.
- Safe by design. No advertising. No selling data. No profiling of children. COPPA- and FERPA-aware from day one.
How this gets made
Made with AI — on purpose, and for good.
Our lessons are created with AI and reviewed by real people before they ever reach your family. That's how a small security team can give away current, high-quality cyber-safety education for free — and refresh it as fast as the scams change.
We believe AI should be used to protect people, not exploit them — the same technology the scammers abuse, turned to defend the people you love. Every lesson carries a clear “Made with AI · reviewed by people” label, and we sign the media so its origin can be checked.
How we use AILabeled, and honest about it
- Every AI-made lesson is labeled as such, in the lesson itself.
- A real person reviews every lesson before it ships — AI drafts, people decide.
- We voluntarily align with the EU AI Act’s Article 50 transparency standard as a best practice — even though U.S. law doesn’t require it.
Give a kid the moves before someone else gives them the lesson.
Watch a real Argos Guardian lesson end to end, or bring the whole curriculum to your school with a free pilot.