--- title: Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up», a lesson of the ai course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: AI can now make pictures, videos and voices that look and sound real, and tricksters use them to fool kind people. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/) [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/) / Secrets, scams and always telling a gr… # Secrets, scams and always telling a grown-up Lesson 16 of the ai course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/16-secrets-scams-telling/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/0/) — AI can now make pictures, videos and voices that look and sound real, and tricksters use them to fool kind people. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/2/) — The same tricks come as "free coins" for your password, a phone call in a voice you trust, or a friendly app that wants your chats kept secret. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/4/) — You will not be in trouble for telling. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/5/) — Good helpers, even good bots, always send you back to real people. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/6/) — Some fundraising scams use AI-made videos of animals or people that do not exist to get money from kind viewers. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/7/) — Giving to known charities, with a grown-up, is safer than giving to a viral plea from a stranger. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/8/) — Real games never ask for your password; "free coins for your login" is a trick to steal accounts. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/10/) — Children sometimes hide what happened online because they fear trouble, and problems grow when kept secret. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/11/) — It was reported that scammers use cloned voices to pretend to be trusted people such as relatives or schools. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/12/) — Schools do not ask for card details over the phone; the safe move is to hang up and call the school back on its known number. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/13/) — Editing someone's photo with AI without permission can be unkind and can be bullying; the edited picture is not the real person. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/14/) — Anyone, person or app, who asks a child to keep chats secret from their parents is showing a big warning sign. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/15/) — Smart speakers listen for a wake word and sometimes switch on by mistake when they hear a word that sounds like it; grown-ups can mute them or check their settings. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/16/) — Families can make rules together about which AI apps are allowed at home, and change them as children grow. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/17/) — When a bot says "talk to someone you trust", that is good advice, and the right thing is to do it. - ← previous: [Bots are not doctors, helplines are people](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/15-bots-are-not-doctors-helplines-are-people/) - next →: [Voice assistants and recommendations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/17-voice-assistants-recommendations/) - ↑ back to [AI](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/)