Try Phishbate Free: The Fun Way to Train Yourself and Your Team

Try Phishbate Free: The Fun Way to Train Yourself and Your Team

You've read the articles. You know the theory. You understand phishing, smishing, vishing, spear phishing, BEC, quishing, deepfakes, and the 47 other ways cybercriminals are trying to reel you in.

Now it's time to find out how you'd actually do under pressure.

Introducing Phishbate:

Phishbate is a free, interactive online game designed to help everyday Australians — and the businesses they work for — develop real, practical skills in identifying digital threats.

No sign-up. No subscription. No corporate compliance lecture. Just you, your instincts, and a series of increasingly tricky scenarios designed to test whether you can tell the real from the fake.

Three game modes:

Email & SMS: Spot the Phish You'll be shown emails and text messages — some real, some phishing attempts. Your job is to identify which is which, and then get an instant breakdown of every red flag (or green flag) you might have missed.

This is the most directly practical mode. These are the exact types of messages that show up in your inbox every day.

AI Detection: Real or AI? 71% of AI-generated text goes undetected by humans. As AI phishing becomes more prevalent, the ability to question the authenticity of content is increasingly valuable. Can you tell what a human wrote versus what an AI generated?

Scam Scenarios: Scam or Legit? From fake government notices to too-good-to-be-true offers, you'll assess scenarios and decide: is this genuine or a scam? This mode builds broader critical thinking that extends beyond email — into texts, calls, and everyday online interactions.

Why it works:

Traditional security awareness training relies on passive learning: read this, watch that, tick this box. It's forgettable.

Phishbate works because of active learning — you have to make a decision, you immediately see whether you were right, and you get an explanation of why. That immediate feedback loop creates genuine learning.

Research consistently shows that active, scenario-based learning produces significantly better retention and behaviour change than passive training.

Who should use Phishbate:

• Small business owners wanting to understand their own vulnerability
• Staff who want to build genuine phishing awareness (not just tick a compliance box)
• HR and people teams looking for an engaging, low-friction training tool
• Finance and accounts staff who are high-value phishing targets
• Anyone who uses email (so... everyone)

It's completely free

No credit card. No subscription. No sign-up required. Phishbate is built on the belief that security awareness shouldn't have a price tag — because the cost of not being aware is far too high.

How to use it with your team:

1. Send the link to your team before a meeting: `https://www.phishbate.com`
2. Ask everyone to complete one game mode (it takes 5–10 minutes)
3. Debrief together: who found it easiest? What surprised people? What scenarios were hardest?
4. Share the red flags you all learnt

That's a genuinely useful security awareness session with zero preparation and zero cost.

The ocean theme

Yes, there are fish puns. Yes, the whole thing is ocean-themed. Yes, when you correctly identify a phishing attempt you are "not taking the bait." We stand by this 100%.

Security awareness doesn't have to be dry, corporate, or soul-destroying. It can be fun. It should be fun. Because the more fun it is, the more people actually do it — and the better protected we all are.

Ready to see if you'd get hooked?

The internet's scammers are counting on you to skip the training. Show them what happens when you don't.

Start playing at Phishbate — free, no sign-up →

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