Observed arrival · 2026-09-25
30 Seconds Before You’re Fooled
A free browser game lets players explore a fictional person’s phone just before a police-impersonation scam call arrives.
- For
- People learning to recognize police-impersonation scams
- Worth noticing
- One fictional profile is a 17-year-old student; the displayed loss amount is left unresolved.
Field notes
The player chooses one of three fictional profiles—a 42-year-old municipal employee, a 17-year-old high-school student, or a 70-year-old former pharmaceutical-company staffer—and can inspect messages, photos, and apps during a three-minute window. The page says the ensuing call uses audio, followed by a debrief that revisits the screens. Its cited 2025 National Police Agency figures put these scams at 70.6% of special-fraud losses; that is a page-reported statistic, not independently checked here.
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