FoolProof Academy

Financial Literacy and Consumer Life Skills Taught by Young People

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FoolProof and Troutwood create a path for every student to graduate with a working financial plan.

FoolProof is excited to have Troutwood as a strategic resource partner. Troutwood provides teachers and students the technology to learn and create a financial plan for life.

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Be FoolProof — Learn to Make Thoughtful Decisions

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Guides

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Car Buying Guide

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Home Buying Guide

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Mortgage Guide

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Student Loan Guide

Your kids are being influenced by marketers at younger and younger ages. FoolProof helps your children develop critical thinking skills.

Money Horror Stories

Ripped Off or Scammed?


Have you ever been ripped off or scammed...? Fell for a sales pitch that hurt you? Racked up enormous debt (without knowing it)?

Your experience can help others (and help yourself too)!

In this section, we feature real life stories from people who've been hurt financially, in any consumer transaction, and that have been willing to share their stories, so others (you, perhaps!) won't step in the same trap.

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Topics

Impulse Buying

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How many impulse buys are you making?

You'll probably make 40,000 impulse buying decisions in your lifetime.

This section shows you how to recognize the "traps" that lead you to those decisions.

The three impulse buying traps:

  1. Confusing "wants" and "needs."
  2. Falling for Advertising.
  3. Believing in Quick Fixes.

You'll save hundreds of thousands of dollars over your lifetime if you learn how to avoid the these traps.

Hall of Shame

Don't Be Fooled

FoolProof's Hall of Shame gives you info on companies that claimed to love people, but ended up messing with people in some dodgy way instead.


Why Are We Telling You This?

We want to inject you with a big dose of healthy skepticism!

The most honest seller is not going to tell you what's wrong with their product or service. Their job is to sell you, whether it's good for you, or not.

Your job: To stop-and-question anyone who wants to impact your money or your well-being.

Money & You

Most people don't understand the role of money in their life. That's life as it happens. But money is more than just the cash in your pocket or your mobile payments.

Let's look at common money mistakes and financial scams. Once you understand the dangers and pitfalls, you simply hop over them like a pro.

Once you have this down, you're set to make the best decisions for YOU!

So, what's happening to people out there?

First, There Are Accidental Money Mistakes.

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Like this common payment fail...

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or this credit card crash...

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or big tech manipulation...

That may sound negative, but fortunately, it's not going to be you!

You've seen these mistakes being made, so you won't fall for the same ones. Right?

Additionally, here are 3 major points to take away from these videos:

1) Careless actions can haunt you for years, regardless of your income.

Paying attention and thinking through your decisions, do the opposite.

Which one would you choose?

2) Good credit can help you in life.

Bad credit will make your life much more complicated and expensive than it needs to be.

Where is your focus?

3) You can't automatically trust everything that is being said.

Do some basic research and make your own thoughtful decisions.

Remember, no product or service is free (except FoolProof). If it doesn't cost money, then you are the product.

AND THEN THERE ARE SCAMS, TOO...

Here are 3 scams to arm yourself against:

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Money flipping scams...

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payment app scams...

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or phishing scams...

BUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOU!

You know what to watch out for now. Nice.

Dive deeper? More scams here.

And then there's the high-risk world of cryptocurrency.

That's a whole other can of worms to get in financial trouble, get ripped off, or scammed, unfortunately.

Watch the crypto module intro...

Want to dive deeper?
Check out our module about crypto.

Ok, scams and mistakes happen. Cool.

But you're FoolProof, because you follow these three steps:

1.

You know your spending limits and you won't be pressured into purchases.

2.

You see through ads and know "Is this right for me?".

3.

You know how to spot scams and not fall for them.

See?
It's not that hard!

Work these into your everyday life and you'll be amazed with the results!

"Those who know cannot be fooled."

FoolProofian Proverb

FoolProof & Walter Cronkite

"The FoolProof Foundation believes there is a fundamental flaw in the teaching of financial literacy."

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