AI Without the Hype · For families, parents and grandparents
Simple Habits to Protect Your Family From Scams
Does your family have a code word?
AI hasn’t invented new scams. It has given old tricks a convincing disguise: a grandson’s cloned voice, a deepfake investment video, a kind stranger who just needs help with one small fee.
Pause.Check.Tell.
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Is this book for you?
Written for you if…
- You look out for parents or grandparents
- You have kids or teens you want to keep safe online
- You want real protection without paranoia or endless surveillance
This calm, plainspoken guide follows three families as they learn to protect themselves, their parents, and their kids, without tech expertise, paranoia, or endless surveillance.
Inside you’ll discover
What you’ll be able to do
- Pause. Check. Tell. — three habits that stop most scams cold
- Exactly what to say when a call or message feels wrong
- How to protect parents and grandparents without taking over
- How to keep kids and teens safe, and willing to tell you
- A 30-day family safety plan, including your family code word
Free with the book
The Family Safety Plan
Your family plan and code word, a trusted contact list, what-to-say scripts, and four cut-out wallet cards: Pause. Check. Tell.
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About the author
Leland Root spent more than thirty years in IT, mostly in business analysis: standing between new technology and the people who have to use it, and asking what it’s really doing for them. He writes plainspoken guides that skip both the hype and the fear. He lives in Arizona.
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