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Is This A Scam?

A subreddit dedicated to determining if a website, email, correspondence, or anything else is a scam.

28k subscribers418 posts / mo in Sep 2026389 authors / mosince 2014

r/isthisascam has 28k members (+89% over the last 12 months). It gets about 418 posts a month from 389 people. Top topics: Job Scams, EBay Transactions & Disputes and ScamAlerts.

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Size and growth

How r/isthisascam has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+89%in 12 months · +12% in 3 months · +3.0% in 1 month
Oct 202628k
Growing28k subscribers
Data since Oct 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+58%vs Sep 2025 · +51% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026418
BusierPeaked at 496 in Aug 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/isthisascam

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Job Scams2.8%
  2. EBay Transactions & Disputes1.4%
  3. ScamAlerts1.1%
  4. Scam Texts & Alerts1.1%
  5. Car Scams & Sales Advice0.7%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. GoDaddy
  2. ScamAdviser
  3. Whois
  4. Scam Detector
  5. ICANN

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research