Your free Self Help Tool Centre
This page features 11 easy-to-use, free tools to help you protect yourself, your family, finances, devices and workplace from fraud and other online harms. Please use them in conjunction with the information and advice found elsewhere on this website.
Check a website
A fast, easy way to check if a website is likely to be legitimate or fraudulent … before you visit it.
Check a photo
Has that photo on a dating site or advertising platform been copied from another website? Check here.
Check a physical location
Is that business or person genuine? Find out where the street and premises of a company or person are and what they look like.
Check for a data breach
Have your contact details been stolen by cybercriminals? Check here.
Check if you can spot a phishing email
Can you tell the difference between a genuine email and a scam? Test your knowledge.
Check your social media footprint
How big is your social media footprint? Here’s a fun way to check.
Store all your passwords securely
You don’t have to remember or write down all your passwords, with this simple tool from Microsoft.
Check the strength of passwords
Your passwords are the key to your online life. Make sure the ones you create are strong enough.
Manage your passwords in one place
Create, store, manage and check the strength of all your passwords saved in your Google account.
Ask Silver
A free Scam Checker, simply send a screenshot you want to check WhatsApp and get an instant analysis.
Spot the AI
Can you spot what’s been generated by AI, and what hasn’t? Check now using our fun tool.
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Is it a scam?
A simple way to check instantly if something you’ve received is a scam or not.
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We’ll help you learn to spot the difference between videos, voices and other content produced by AI, and the real thing.
