Carol Vorderman, Rufus Hound and Donna Air have teamed up to learn about the latest techniques used by scammers.

A series of new videos sees them finding out how to avoid becoming the victim of a scam – and discovering just how easily we can be manipulated. The trio even take part in replicating a phone scam!

Watch the videos to learn how we should #TakeFive to stop and think to make sure that we don’t fall into scammers’ traps over the phone or online.

Here Carol Vorderman, Rufus Hound and Donna Air are inducted into Scam Academy where they learn some top tips for spotting a scam email…

Here they are taught how to tell a genuine text from a fraudulent one…

Lastly, here they learn how to spot a phone scam…

Visit the Take Five website to find out more.