Would You Pick Up?
Five calls come in over Microsoft Teams and your phone. Some are your mum, your dad, your team lead — some are scammers. Read the signals and decide: answer or decline. Answer a scammer and you'll hear exactly how the call would play out.
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Used only to word the calls — never sent anywhere.
FAQ
What is Would You Pick Up?
It is a free, browser-based simulation of deciding whether to answer incoming calls. Five calls arrive over a Microsoft Teams-style screen — some genuine (your mum, your team lead), some scams (IT impersonation, a deepfake "CEO", a fake bank asking for your one-time code). You choose answer or decline from the on-screen signals, and if you answer a scammer you hear the call play out line by line with the red flags called out.
How do I know which calls are safe?
You judge the same signals a real call shows: who the caller claims to be, whether Teams tags them "External" (from outside your organisation), what the caller ID or verification shows, and the context — was it expected, is the ask urgent or about money or codes. The simulation teaches the tells: a real internal IT desk is not External and never needs you to approve an MFA prompt; no bank asks for the code it just texted you; no executive calls out of the blue for gift cards.
Can I personalise it?
Yes — before you start you can enter your name, company domain, and a social handle. The callers use them to sound convincing (exactly as a real attacker would use details they found about you). The inputs stay in your browser and are never sent anywhere.
Is the caller a real AI?
Yes — if you answer a scam call, a live AI persona (powered by anam.ai) connects on video for about a minute and works the scam in real time, so you can practise resisting live pressure and even talk back. It needs a browser that allows camera/microphone and WebRTC; where that is unavailable the call falls back to a scripted transcript with the same red flags called out. Either way the caller is a fictional training persona.
What should I do with a suspicious real call?
Decline, then verify through a channel you already trust — call your IT desk on its published number, or your bank on the number on your card. Never approve an MFA prompt you did not initiate, never read out a one-time code, and never buy gift cards or move money because a caller is rushing you.
Ambient music: “Ghostpocalypse” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0.