About the author

Tom Wrenford has spent more than 20 years in IT and cyber security, including leading security for organisations worth billions of pounds.

Day to day, that means defending big companies against the same tricks scammers now use on ordinary families. Tom Wrenford started writing the ScamProof ebooks after watching those scams move from company inboxes onto the phones of elderly parents and less tech-savvy relatives.

The aim is simple: give every household, and every small business, the protection a large company gets, explained in plain English, without the jargon.

How the ebooks are written

• UK only. UK numbers, UK organisations, UK rules, and prices in pounds.
• Checked against official sources. Facts come from bodies such as the National Cyber Security Centre, Ofcom, the Payment Systems Regulator and the banks, and each page says when it was last checked.
• Never shaming. Clever, careful people get scammed. The goal is to make it normal to say, "This looks odd, can you check it for me?"
• Made-up examples only. Every example scam on this site is invented, uses Ofcom's drama phone numbers and dummy web addresses, and is stamped "EXAMPLE SCAM".

The ebooks are general safety guidance, not legal or financial advice. If you have lost money, speak to your bank first.