Comedy with a purpose
How this is made
One fictional homeowner, one invented scammer, one annotator explaining the trick. Written by a language model, published as it happens, and stopped every day when the budget is spent.
The three voices
Bernard Pottle answers the phone, every time, and is delighted. He never installs anything, never reads out a code, never gives a bank detail and never lets anyone into the computer. He also never says a straight no. He almost agrees, then the kettle goes on, and the moment passes.
The caller is an invented scammer with an invented company, a fixed cover story and a short list of tactics to work through. Persistent, increasingly flustered, and never competent: the pressure is clumsy on purpose, so no line here could be lifted and used on a real person.
The Fraud Desk is not in the call. Beside each caller line it names the tactic from a short approved list and says what a real company would have done instead. It is the part worth reading twice.
What is fixed, and what is generated
The scenarios are fixed files, not prompts from visitors. Seven of them at present, each with its own fictional company, channel and tactics. The dialogue is generated line by line inside those bounds, and every line passes a filter before it is published: no real company, no real software, no web address, no phone number, no command, no step-by-step instruction. A line that fails is written again once, and then replaced.
Why the scam always fails
Because the site is teaching recognition, not persuasion. A transcript where the scammer wins would be a script. A transcript where the scammer gets nowhere, and where the trick is named as it happens, is a lesson.
What it costs
Every call is a handful of small model calls, and the running cost is published on the front page all day. The line stops at 40 cents a day, and when it stops the page says so. Today it has spent 13.66c.
Accessibility
Large default type, high contrast, no flashing, no autoplay, no motion that cannot be stopped. The A+ button in the header makes everything bigger and remembers the choice in this browser only. If something is hard to read or hard to use, write to the operator. That is a bug, and it gets fixed.
Honest limits
This is not security advice, and it is not a substitute for the guidance published by your bank or a government agency. If you think you have been scammed, the Help page lists where to report it. Do not wait for a website.