Pause Before You Pay: A Simple Scam-Prevention Guide for Parents

Scams are getting smarter. This guide helps the people you love stay one step ahead.

Pause Before You Pay is a calm, plain-English guide for parents and grandparents - and for the adult kids who look out for them. No jargon, no scare tactics. Just clear steps to spot a scam, pause, check, and know exactly who to call.

Inside the guide:

- The number-one safety rule: Pause. Check. Ask.

- Warning signs for phone, text, email, tech-support, romance, investment, and shopping scams

- A family safe word plan for AI voice scams

- The Before You Pay checklist, and what to do if you have already paid

- A Family Safety Agreement to fill in together

- A quick-reference tear-out page to keep by the phone

- Trusted hotlines and resources, all in one place

25 pages, easy to read. Buy it once, share it with your family, and keep it close.

From KindTech - tech help for real life.