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Student Scam Recovery Kit

The first hour after realizing you've been scammed matters — move fast, and move in the right order.

Scams targeting students move fast — recovery has to move faster

Fake job offers, rental scams, tuition-payment fraud, and "urgent" impersonation scams count on confusion and panic slowing you down long enough for the money to disappear. What actually matters in the first hours is preserving evidence before it's gone, contacting your bank before a transaction settles, and filing a police report with a real reference number — in the right order, not scrambled. This kit is that order, laid out in advance.

  • Scam Timeline to record exactly what happened, in order
  • Money Lost tracker and Accounts & Platforms Involved log
  • Communication Log for every message with the scammer, your bank, and any platform involved
  • Evidence preservation checklist — screenshots and records before anything gets deleted
  • Bank Contact and Police Report pages
  • Recovery Tracker to follow every claim through to a result

Step by step

  1. Download the kit (PDF or Excel version included).
  2. Work through the Evidence preservation checklist first — screenshots and records, before anything can be deleted or taken down.
  3. Build the Scam Timeline and log everything in Money Lost and Accounts & Platforms Involved.
  4. Contact your bank and file a police report, logging both in their dedicated pages with reference numbers.
  5. Use the Recovery Tracker to follow every claim — bank, platform, or police — through to a result.

Any student who has been scammed or thinks they may have been

Fake job or internship offers, rental scams, tuition-payment fraud, or impersonation scams targeting students specifically — moving quickly and in the right order after realizing something's wrong.

  • Print-ready PDF version
  • Editable Excel version
  • Scam Timeline, Money Lost, Accounts & Platforms Involved
  • Communication Log, Evidence preservation checklist
  • Bank Contact, Police Report, Recovery Tracker
  • Works on any device

Move in the right order, before the evidence disappears.

Preserve the evidence, contact your bank, file the report — a clear sequence instead of scrambling while the window to act closes.

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