This course teaches you how to recognize types of phishing attacks and scams and how to protect yourself against them. The course shows different situations in which social engineering tactics are used to get consumers to give up their confidential data. It takes students under the hood of cyber attackers' sophisticated strategies and tactics and reveal their modus operandi: Students learn the things that make consumers vulnerable to cyber attacks and how to close those doorways that provide entry to cyber attackers.

The course highlighs current scams that target specific consumers. It also touches on some main tools that cyber criminals use to get people's confidential information such as text messaging, voIP, and email, and how to protect yourself from being tricked into revealing your personal and confidential information. The course teaches you about email security. It shows how to spot fake emails and how to secure different areas of your email account in order to prevent a cyber hacker from gaining access to it. Throughout this course, you are provided with cases in point for each lesson, how to protect and defend yourself from each type of attacks, and step by step instructions for securing your confidential information. The course is all about making you cyber security alert ready at all times against cyber attacks and scams.