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Alec describes finding that his image is used in multiple online dating scams and suggests digital literacy is a necessary tool to mitigate.

Google Forms being used to collect info in phishing scam. Useful for net-safety.

"You've all heard there's no such thing as bad publicity. On the internet this is doubly true. When you link to a website - regardless of the reason - this strengthens its position in search engines. This means that a bad review of a website makes it more popular. When you are discussing or alerting others to a website that promotes a fraud, scam, cult or other questionable business and you link to that site, search engines will (after a while) improve the offending site's rank. Therefore, more people will find these shady websites, and will be exposed to their content without getting the proper context. That's where donotlink comes in. With donotlink.com, you can link to sites without giving them "Google juice". Using donotlink.com instead of linking to questionable websites directly will prevent your links from improving these websites' position in search engines."

An open source tool to make sure you know who you are talking to online. Likely to be seen as too geeky by most.