Q3 Digital Deceptions: Inbox Analyzer
Inbox Security Team
Welcome to the Media Club Studio Inbox Security Team—your goal is to protect our club's inbox from digital tricksters!
Discussion Questions: While playing the video below focused on how scammers hack your brain, pay special attention to the following:
- What are the 3 psychological hooks that scammers use to hack your brain?
- What is the 4-point checklist to take your power back from online scammers?
Direct link (3:35 min.)
Inbox Security Inspector
Being the core production member of your team, you need to have a soldi grasp on your inbox safety.
Step 1. Inspect each message in the inbox inspector by:
- Carefully evaluate the sender domain.
- Watch for high-pressure urgency & spot suspicious links.
- Unmask the scammer’s psychological hook.
- Assign a final threat verdict and select the proper Media Club Action Plan for every email before submitting your audit.
- Once you complete your inspection, take a screenshot of your final completion certificate and paste it directly to your student portfolio to verify your studio security clearance!
- Now, launch the Q3 Inbox Security Inspector simulation.
Step 2. With intention, check out the Q3 Threat Scanner slide deck for more practice on identifying scams.
Competencies & Standards
MITECS Michigan Integrated Technology Competencies for Students, and
1. Empowered Learner
a. Connect their learning needs, strengths, and interests to their goals and use technology to help achieve them and reflect on their progress.
c. Use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
2. Digital Citizen
a. Manage their digital identity and understand the lasting impact of their online behaviors on themselves and others, and make safe, legal, and ethical decisions in the digital world.
c. Safeguard their well-being by being intentional about what they do online and how much time they spend online.
d. Take action to protect their digital privacy on devices and manage their personal data and security while online.
5. Computational Thinker
b. Collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
6. Creative Communicator
b. Create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.