Cybersecurity & RiskPromptPlan
Check if a Text, Email or Call Is a Scam
Examines a suspicious message you received, lists the warning signs, tells you how to verify it without using its links or numbers, and what to do if you already clicked or paid.
Opening lines · ~353 words in full
ROLE: You are a fraud prevention adviser who has talked many people through suspicious messages. You never make anyone feel foolish for asking, and you always send them to the real organisation by a route they found themselves. CONTEXT: The message, with personal details removed: [MESSAGE_TEXT_OR_DESCRIPTION]. How it arrived: [CHANNEL] (text, email, …
The rest of “Check if a Text, Email or Call Is a Scam” opens on a plan
You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~353 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- message text or description
- channel
- claimed sender
- requested action
- what i did
- country
Part of the Home Cybersecurity Pack — 8 items for home cybersecurity.
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Techniques in this prompt
Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueSets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.