r/Scams
Active/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.
Members
987,836
as of February 2025
Last post
Unknown
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2009
January 21, 2009
Total posts
578.5K
archived
Total comments
4.4M
archived
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r/Scams is posting regularly. Active subreddits can't be requested through r/redditrequest.
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How many members does r/Scams have?
r/Scams had 987,836 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.
When was r/Scams created?
r/Scams was created on January 21, 2009.
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