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The Scam Shield: The Complete Guide to Safer Digital Living
Topic: Cybersecurity
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Short Description:
Scams no longer look like clumsy emails from strangers. They come as cloned voices, deepfake videos, fake trading apps, and messages that seem to be from someone you trust. The Scam Shield is a practical consumer-safety guide that explains why careful, intelligent people get fooled. It shows how to spot the warning signs, protect your identity, and recover if the worst happens. Clear and step-by-step, it helps you build lasting digital habits for your whole family.
Book Details
Pages
204
Language
English
Published
July 2026
Publisher
amacox
ISBN
Book Details:
Somewhere right now, someone is on the phone with a voice that sounds exactly like their grandchild — except it isn’t. It’s an AI clone built from a few seconds of audio, deployed by a criminal an ocean away. This is what fraud looks like now, and the advice you grew up with — watch for bad spelling, be wary of strangers — won’t save you. The Scam Shield is a clear-eyed guide to fraud in the age of artificial intelligence, written for anyone with a phone, an email account, or a bank card. Evan Cipher walks readers through the machinery behind modern scams: the psychology that makes careful, intelligent people fall for them; the industrial-scale operations running phishing and romance fraud at volume; and the deepfakes, cloned voices, and AI chatbots now doing the criminals’ work for them.
This isn’t a book meant to frighten you into hiding your phone in a drawer. It’s a toolkit. Chapter by chapter, it builds a real defence — password habits that hold up, credit freezes that stop identity theft before it starts, conversations worth having with aging parents and teenagers, and a concrete plan for the first hours after money is already gone. Practical where it counts and honest about how much has changed, The Scam Shield is for anyone who wants to stay ahead of a threat that’s evolving faster than most people realize. The scammers have already updated their playbook. Have you updated yours?
About the author
Meet Evan Cipher
Evan Cipher grew up in Bergen, Norway, where rainy winters meant a library card and a habit of taking things apart to see how they worked. He later studied information systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology, then spent twelve years as a fraud analyst at a regional credit union before becoming a consumer-safety trainer. He now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. He first wanted to write as a teenager, filling notebook margins with warnings. The idea for books came from the calls he took at work: careful, ordinary people who lost savings in one rushed minute. His early drafts were stiff and full of jargon, and it took two years to learn how to explain danger without frightening anyone.
For Evan, writing is a way of being useful from a distance. He wants readers to feel calm, capable, and unhurried. His ideas come from real cases and kitchen-table questions, and he checks every claim against sources such as FTC and FBI reports. Away from the desk, he reads Carl Sagan and Atul Gawande, hikes ridge trails, and bakes sourdough on Sundays. He writes at dawn, values patience, and lives by a simple saying: slow is smooth, and smooth is safe.
