If you would like to help expand AutoModerator's knowledge base, message the moderators. Here is a page containing all current responses. You can summon AutoModerator to explain any of the following scams by writing a comment with an exclamation mark (!) in front of the keyword for the scam you want to be explained. We are not a subreddit to promote your scams. This is especially the case if you are collecting personal information from sub members for an article or for university/work research. 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. Rule 12: No research requests or media requests without moderator approval.Do not promote illegal transactions, hacks, scams, recovery services, or other dangerous/illegal items or activities.
Regardless of whether a scam has been posted here once or a thousand times, remember there is a real person behind the screen. Flaming, name-calling, bullying, harassment, or anything else that could break site-wide rules or offend or disturb others is prohibited. Please ensure that all your posts and comments in this subreddit are civil and use appropriate and respectful language at all times. Please try to use archive.is,, , or another archive website instead of posting the direct link. We only allow images and self posts on this subreddit for safety reasons. Given the nature of this subreddit, you should treat any external links as suspicious, and you should be careful visiting any unfamiliar websites.Įxternal links, such as websites or videos, must be posted as a self post. Make sure you redact all personal information from your screenshots. If you post screenshots, you should also copy and paste the text from the screenshot into your post so that the text shows up on Google and other search engines. Include details like: what the person sent you, details included in texts/emails/in-person conversation, etc. You should post details in order to receive quick advice. This is a help forum - bad advice will get you banned, and we do not consider "just joking" to be a defense of advice that would be harmful if followed.
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