Falling for a scam has nothing to do with your intelligence. Syndicates use psychological manipulation to bypass your logic. In this course, we don't teach complicated computer code. We teach you how to spot the psychological traps.
Fraudsters hijack family accounts to ask for immediate CashSend or eWallet transfers.
Criminals steal your cellphone number to intercept banking OTPs and passwords.
Fake SMS messages pretending to be from SARS, Post Office, or SASSA offering refunds.
I am a South African web developer and Software Engineer student. My day job is building secure computer systems. But I didn’t start ScamSmart because of my job. I started it because of what happened to my aunt.
A few months ago, my aunt got a WhatsApp message. It looked like it was from her son. The message said: “Mom, my banking app is locked. I’m stuck at the till at Checkers. Please send an eWallet for R1,500 right now.”
She panicked. She is a good mother, so she didn’t stop to think. She just sent the money.
An hour later, her real son walked into the house. He had been home all day. Scammers had hacked his WhatsApp and sent that message to everyone in his phone.
My aunt felt so embarrassed. She thought she was foolish. But I told her the truth: she wasn’t foolish at all. The scammers didn’t hack her phone; they hacked her feelings. They used her love for her son against her.
That day, I realised that knowing how to code isn’t enough. The big tech companies protect big banks, but they forget about normal people losing their savings to simple text messages.
I created ScamSmart to change this. I take complicated tech rules and turn them into plain, simple English. You don’t need to be good with computers to stay safe. You just need to know the scammer’s tricks and I am here to show them to you.
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