Red Flag Match lines up a row of too-good-to-be-true pitches and a row of the tells that give them away, and asks you to pair them up. Guaranteed returns, a prince with a wire transfer, an urgent invoice from "your boss" — each one hides a classic red flag, if you know where to look.
Scams feel endlessly varied, but the machinery underneath is surprisingly small. The same levers show up again and again: manufactured urgency ("act in the next hour"), promises of guaranteed or outsized returns, requests for hard-to-reverse payment like wire transfers or gift cards, unsolicited contact, and pressure to keep the whole thing secret. Once you can name these tells, the surface details — the crypto pitch, the romance, the fake invoice — stop mattering as much.
Pairing a pitch with its red flag is deliberate practice for that recognition. Instead of memorizing individual scams, you train on the underlying pattern, so an unfamiliar one still trips your alarm. How to spot a scam lays out the common tells in more depth and how they combine.
Yes. Most rely on a small set of levers — urgency, guaranteed returns, irreversible payment, secrecy — dressed up in different stories.
It builds pattern recognition. Once the tell is familiar, you can spot it even in a scam you've never seen before.
There's no one winner, but pressure to act fast combined with an unusual payment method is a very common and reliable warning sign.
No. It's an educational game to build awareness. For decisions about real money or accounts, rely on official guidance and trusted sources.
For entertainment and education only; not security advice.