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r/Scams PUBLIC
Welcome to r/scams. This is an educational subreddit focused on scams. It is our hope to be a wealth of knowledge for people wanting to educate themselves, find support, and discover ways to help a friend or loved one who may be a victim of a scam. Please read the rules: https://reddit.com/r/Scams/wiki/rules and our wiki BEFORE posting. Please give posts appropriate, descriptive titles. Joking comments on serious posts will be removed. Be civil.
Marketing Summary
r/Scams is a PUBLIC community on Reddit with over 1,371,710 members. It currently has a positive sentiment with an engagement rate of 0.1%. With a community friendliness score of 80, this subreddit presents a low conversion potential for authentic brand participation. Strict rules against self-promotion are in place, so marketing should focus strictly on value-driven community engagement.
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Subreddit Rules
- Be civil: Posts and comments at r/scams should be civil and use appropriate and respectful language at all times.
- - Flaming, name-calling, bullying, harassment, or anything else that could break site-wide rules or offend or disturb others is prohibited
- Regardless of whether a scam has been posted here once or a thousand times, remember there is a real person behind the screen. We are a landing page for people new to Reddit, and people in crisis. Be kind, not snarky.
- Report recovery scammers: Anyone suggesting contact via DM, or the services of a professional hacker to help recover funds must be reported.
- Remember: never take advice in private, because we can't look out for you. If you take advice in private, you're on your own.
- No personal information: Sharing personal information is strictly forbidden in this subreddit. Please censor any personal information in posts and comments. This includes:
- - Phone numbers - Email addresses - Social media handles - Physical addresses - Full names
- The exception to this rule is people who present themselves as public figures (ex: celebrities, internet personalities, etc.)
- No spam/off-topic: This subreddit is a place for meaningful and useful discussions about scams. We do not permit:
- - Nonsensical and useless content - AI-generated posts/comments - Memes - Advertisements - Solicitation - Sarcasm on serious posts - Posts asking to verify online stores or retail websites. These should be submitted to other topic-specific subreddits. If you don't know where to post, go to r/findareddit - Store reviews - Unexpected subscription posts may be removed at moderator's discretion.
- No low effort posts: Please ensure that all posts posted to this subreddit are of decent quality and on-topic. We do not permit:
- - Short posts with little to no context about the question or scam being discussed - Screenshots without transcripts - Links to external articles with no information in the body of your post - Link posts to outside websites - AI generated posts/comments - Memes, jokes, or anything else that isn't useful
- No uncensored nudity or photos of dead people: - Don't post nudity without censoring it
- - Don't upload photos of dead people without censoring them, regardless of the NSFW tag
- All NSFW posts will be queued for moderation. Be patient.
- No personal army requests: We do not allow requests to:
- - Mass report accounts, websites, apps, etc.
- - Text/call alleged scam phone numbers
- - Harass alleged scammers
- Innocent people have their identities and contact information spoofed by scammers, and this behavior is not aligned with Reddit's content policy.
- No private message requests: Don't ask for contact via private message. We need to keep the community safe from recovery scammers or bad advice.
- Remember: never take advice in private, because we can't look out for you. If you take advice in private, you're on your own.
- No scambaiting: This is a scam identification subreddit. We do not encourage or support scambaiting, which is interacting with known scammers to waste their time. This also includes knowingly engaging with scammers with the intent to "game the system" and financially benefit from a scam. We consider scambaiting to be dangerous, especially when done by inexperienced individuals.
- Additionally, we do not permit posts referring people to other subreddits or websites that promote scambaiting.
- No self promotion: We do not allow the following:
- - Advertising your Youtube, Tiktok, Instagram, or other social media channels
- - Advertising your website, product, app, or service, even if free to use
- - Referral codes
- - Promotional posts or comments
- - Participation from branded Reddit accounts. This includes brand usernames and references to your site/business/etc in your account bio
- No promoting illegal or prohibited activities: Do not promote:
- - Recovery services
- - Discussing buying/selling accounts, or anything that violates the TOS of popular platforms
- - Discussing unethical or illegal activities, including but no limited to: gaming recovery scammers, committing fraud against financial institutions, etc.
- No research requests, media requests, or AMAs without moderator approval: Given the nature of our subreddit and the risk of scammers, you cannot post a survey, a call for participants for a news story, or other research/writing opportunities without moderator approval. This is especially the case if you are collecting personal information from sub members for an article or for university/work research. This also applies to AMAs; you must submit a request to moderators if you are interested in hosting an AMA. A tag will be added to approved posts.
- No scammers: We are not a subreddit to promote your scams.
- No begging or crowdfunding links.: We do not permit:
- - Requests for money through Cashapp/Venmo/Zelle, Bitcoin wallets, GoFundMe, etc.
- - Requests for wishlist purchases
- - Donations or crowdfunding for your project, app, website, etc.
- Keep it safe: Everybody should strive to make r/Scams a safe place. Bad advice or concerning posts should be reported to the mods, not only downvoted.
- - Clickable links to scam websites are not allowed. We favor putting website addresses in the titles of posts
- - Moderators will use their discretion to prevent users from posting something that may be harmful for themselves or the community
- - We also heavily moderate posts by underage users, for their protection
What is r/Scams?
r/Scams is a public Reddit community created in January 2009 with over 1,371,710 members. Welcome to r/scams. This is an educational subreddit focused on scams. It is our hope to be a wealth of knowledge for people wanting to educate themselves, find support, and discover ways to help a friend or loved one who may be a victim of a scam. Please read the rules: https://reddit.com/r/Scams/wiki/rules and our wiki BEFORE posting. Please give posts appropriate, descriptive titles. Joking comments on serious posts will be removed. Be civil.
The community has a positive sentiment and an engagement rate of 0.1%. With a friendliness score of 80, it is considered very welcoming to new members.
Self-promotion is not allowed, so marketing efforts should focus on providing genuine value to the community.
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