--- title: Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Online, anyone can pretend to be anyone, and now a bot can pretend too. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/) / Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messa… # Strangers, hooks and too-perfect messages Lesson 13 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/0/) — Online, anyone can pretend to be anyone, and now a bot can pretend too. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/1/) — A "new friend" who seems lovely and asks for photos is showing a big warning sign, whoever or whatever is typing. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/2/) — Some apps are built to hook you: an "AI friend" in a game that gets "sad" if you don't chat every day is using pretend feelings to keep you coming back. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/3/) — Scammers have learned to use AI as well. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/4/) — They used to give themselves away with spelling mistakes; now their emails can look perfect, and "AI says you've won a prize!" just borrows a clever-sounding word. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/5/) — So your safety moves stay simple: never send photos or passwords, check age ratings, never use a number a bot made up, check messages another way, and tell a grown-up. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/6/) — It is never your fault if a bot says something upsetting. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/7/) — Deepfakes are real, but don't panic: most videos of your friends are real, and for important things you check trusted news. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/8/) — People and bots online may pretend to be someone else; asking for photos is a big warning sign. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/9/) — Never send photos to people you know only online; tell a grown-up straight away. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/10/) — Some apps use pretend feelings, like a "sad" AI friend, to keep you using them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/11/) — Bots sometimes say upsetting things despite safety rules; close the app and tell a grown-up. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/12/) — Many chatbot apps are rated for ages 13 and up. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/13/) — Some apps use what people type to train and improve their AI, so type as if someone else might read it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/14/) — Bots can invent phone numbers and addresses that belong to nobody, or to a stranger. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/15/) — The word "AI" in an advert does not make it trustworthy. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/16/) — AI helps scammers write perfect emails, so good spelling is no longer proof a message is real. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/17/) — To check a message from "the bank", call the number on the card, never one in the message. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/18/) — Parental controls are there for good reasons; talk about them rather than trying to trick them. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/13-strangers-hooks-and-too-perfect-messages/19/) — Never tell a password to a bot or an app that does not need it. - ← previous: [Keep yourself private, and voices that lie](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/) - next →: [Stop, think, check, ask](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/14-stop-think-check-ask/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)