Scams & Spam Vocabulary

Creating a fake identity or account online to trick people into friending them or sharing their personal information is called _________________.

Imagine Michael, Ethan, and Ava are playing a game of 'Tech Detectives'. They come across words or actions intended to be cruel or hurtful. They also find software that can damage a person’s device or account. What would they call this?

• Reputation

• Malicious

• Hate

• Online Privacy

Words or actions intended to be cruel or hurtful. Can also refer to harmful software intended to do

damage to a person’s device, account, or personal information.

• Malicious

• Fake

• Clickbait

• Bot

A ________ is a dishonest attempt to make money by tricking people into sharing their login, personal information, or tricking people out of their money. 

• Digital Footprint

• Scam

• Interpret

• malicious

Imagine Arjun, Mia, and Zoe are playing a game. They need a TRUSTWORTHY teammate who is able to be ________ on to do what is right or needed.  

• relied

• spied

• Working on homework

• Scratch

Harper, Isla, and Rohan are having a debate about the correct format of an email address. Can you help them identify the correctly written email address below?

• Harper.jane@gmail

• [e-mail]

• Rohan.jane.gmail@com

• jane at gmail dot com

During a cybersecurity class, Liam, Nora, and Grace learned about a crime where information about you is stolen. What is this crime called?

• Identity Theft

• Stealing

• Mean

• Acceleration

Avery, Zoe, and Jackson are discussing web security. They come across the term 'https' and wonder what the 's' added to 'http' means. Can you help them out?

• stable

• secure

• safe

• saucy

People can figure out who you are even if you don't use your real name.

• True

• False

Lily, Aria, and James are discussing their email inboxes. They all agree that ________ is another term for junk email.

• Malware

• Bcc

• Attachment

• Spam