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I would like to see more detail on a few areas, although I appreciate fitting all into a free course may be challenging.
For example:
There is an increasing use of social engineering, often via social media or old fashioned phone calls, to facilitate financial crime. This requires that the criminal builds a rapport that leads to the victim trusting the caller, that leads to what seems to be a completely irrational action of quite intelligent victims transferring large amounts of cash either online or in real life. The psychological profile of the criminals and why people fall for this would be good for discussion.
Organised crime have moved into cybercrime big time. The use of cryptocurrency, online exchanges and cashing out via compromised accounts and money mules are netting really big money. The criminal organisations rely on a variety of skills, including recruiting people as mules. The mules often do not realise what they are involved in, for example if it involves redirecting parcels or transferring money to other accounts. The psychological and environmental reasons that people are likely to get involved could be explored.
The increasing use of deepfakes to commit criminal *****, increasingly in real time, e.g. video and audio fakes, make it increasingly difficult to rely on all those things that you use to identify friend or foe. This has psychological implications, on what basis can trust be gained in an online and increasingly fake world?
There is a line between victim blaming, and recognising the risks you are exposed to and minimising them.
This hard area was explored however it deserves more depth.
Car drivers are not meant to run you over, however you still look both ways when crossing a road.
The links to download the course as PDF or Word do not work well