/r/Scams. 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.
1.4M members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.2K upvotes, which works out to 14 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
It happened to me: 30k gone.
[US] My mom is marrying Keanu Reeves everyone!
Random number sent me Apple Cash. This is totally a scam, right?
Neighbor claims that I hit both their cars and refuses to send dash cam footage
My stolen phone ended up in China, I assume the scammer is screwed?
My uncle is going to Nigeria to marry a women who met on TikTok
Found these in my checked baggage after an international flight from Asia to USA? They’re not mine. What do I do?
random person sent me $400 and asked for it back when i responded
Apple gift Card Victim spotted in the wild.
[US] NovaraKasem CFP Influencer scam
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Scams, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.