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The Phishing Lab | Simulation | CambridgeOCR Level 3 Award in Personal Finance

Level:
Level 3 Award
Board:
OCR

Last updated 5 Aug 2026

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Try this mini personal finance simulation activity to help deliver the CambridgeOCR Level 3 Award in Personal Finance.

The Phishing Lab is a free interactive simulation that builds a skill everyone needs: spotting a financial scam. Students become fraud investigators, working through eight realistic messages, bank alerts, delivery texts, a too-good investment pitch, and deciding for each whether it is fraud or genuine, then tagging the exact clues that give it away. The real messages matter as much as the fakes, because the skill is telling them apart. It teaches the habit of noticing, the dodgy domain, the false urgency, the request for details, rather than a list to memorise. Around fifteen minutes to play, any device, and it could genuinely protect someone from losing money.

Play the Phishing Lab simulation here

Download the Teacher Guide to The Phishing Lab here

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