• COMMUNITY RULES
• 1 - Be civil
• 2 - Report recovery scammers
• 3 - No personal information
• 4 - No spam/off-topic
• 5 - No low effort posts
• 6 - No uncensored nudity or photos of dead people
• 7 - No personal army requests
• 8 - No private message requests
• 9 - No scambaiting
• 10 - No self promotion
• 11 - No promoting illegal activities
• 12 - No research requests or media requests without moderator approval
• 13 - No scammers
• 14 - No begging or crowdfunding links.
• 15 - Keep it safe

COMMUNITY RULES

1 - Be civil

• Please ensure that all your posts and comments in this subreddit are 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.

2 - 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.

3 - 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.)

4 - 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 -Reviews or complaints of online stores, brick and mortar stores, etc.
• Posts about unexpected subscriptions may be removed at moderator's discretion; review the TOS of the website you have purchased from.

5 - 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

6 - 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, so be patient.

7 - No personal army requests

• We are not your personal army. You cannot request members of the sub to mass report accounts, mass text/call phone numbers, or otherwise use our large sub for your own personal gain.

8 - 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.

9 - No scambaiting

• This is a scam identification subreddit. Scambaiting, interacting with known scammers or anything that encourages wasting scammers' time, etc, on posts and comments, is not encouraged or allowed. Scambaiting can be dangerous and is best left to the professionals.
• Additionally, we do not permit referrals to sites or subreddits that promote or encourage scambaiting.

10 - 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

11 - No promoting illegal activities

Do not promote:

• Hacks
• 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.

12 - No research requests or media requests 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. A tag will be added to approved posts.

13 - No scammers

• We are not a subreddit to promote your scams.

14 - 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.

15 - Keep it safe

• Everybody should strive to make r/Scams a safe place.
• Bad advice 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.