Lesson 1 of 2 · 7 min
The digital arrest call
A courier call, then a "police officer" on video, then hours you are not allowed to leave. Isolation is the weapon, and hanging up disarms it.
It opens with a courier company: a parcel in your name contains something illegal. The call transfers to what sounds like a cyber cell, and the second caller already knows your name and part of your address.
Then a video call, a uniform, a government emblem on the wall behind them. You are told you are under "digital arrest" and must not leave the call or contact anyone.
Isolation is the mechanism. Hours on a call, told that speaking to family makes you an accomplice. Nobody gets to interrupt the story.
Match them up
The script, line by line
What is actually true, behind each line the caller uses.
Drag each meaning up or down until it sits beside the term it belongs to.
Put these in order
Put these in the order you should do them if this call comes.
- Call 1930 if money has already moved
- Look up the agency’s real number yourself if you want to check
- Tell one other person, out loud
- Hang up
Check yourself
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Kabir asks
The call has run for an hour and you have been told not to hang up. What is the first move?
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