r/Scams
/r/Scams
Founded January 2009 · Public — anyone can post
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.
Members
1,434,324
1.4M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
17.1
from the last 100 posts, spanning 5.8 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.4%
+20K members · ≈34d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 13
sampled Oct 13
Distinct posters
99%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 9 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
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A platform to discuss about scam websites and online frauds.
A subreddit to check if a website is a scam. We verify websites daily to determine if they are legit or a potential scam. Users can also ask here to verify legitimacy of any website or share their experience with a scam website to alert others.
This community is set up for the purpose of sharing your referrals. Be cautious of anyone offering you something extra, espeecially if it appears too good to be true. We are unable to verify whether they are trustworthy or not, and cannot be held responsible.
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r/Scams — frequently asked
How many members does r/Scams have?
r/Scams has 1,434,324 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 13. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/Scams growing?
Over the last ≈34 days r/Scams changed by +1.4% — a gain of 20K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/Scams?
Around 17.1 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 5.8 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/Scams created?
r/Scams was founded in January 2009 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/Scams?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 99% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 13. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/Scams?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Scams yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/Scams for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Scams into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/Scams's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Scams's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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