Hi.
If you got a link to this page from me, it’s because I care about you, and I want you to be part of something I’m building.
I named it Operation Arlene. Arlene was my grandmother. She lived long enough that the internet went from something she’d heard about to something that knew her credit card number, her phone number, and her email address. Every few months a new kind of scam would land in her phone or her inbox or her voicemail, and we’d talk through it. Most of the time she spotted it on her own. She never lost money. A lot of people aren’t that lucky.
After she passed, I kept thinking about how much of that we never wrote down. Every family has the same conversations. Nobody is writing them down. So every household reinvents the same lessons.
Operation Arlene is me writing them down, and trying to do it in plain words, from a real person, signed.
I’m in the early stages. The site you’re on is the beginning. I’m building lessons, a searchable scam library, a short course you can take or share, and a 2-minute check that points you at what to learn first. None of that is fully built yet, but it’s coming.
The thing I can do for you today is send you one short email a month about the scams hitting people right now. What they look like. What to do if you see one. It’s free, and you can unsubscribe any time. I sign every one.
I’d love it if you joined the list. If you know somebody who needs this more than you do, send them this link.
Thank you for reading.
Michael
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If you’d like to know more about what Operation Arlene is and who Arlene was, the about page is here.