r/scambait↗
SCAMBAIT
Welcome to r/scambait. The largest scambaiting community on Reddit! Scambaiting, by definition, is the practice of feigning interest in a fraudulent scheme, in order to waste a scammer's time and resources, to keep them away from real victims. Please read the rules before posting, and share your scambaiting success stories with us!
611k subscribers423 posts / mo in Sep 2026180 authors / mosince 2009
r/scambait has 611k members (+2.6% over the last 12 months). It gets about 423 posts a month from 180 people. Top topics: Scam_Jokes_and_Scammers, Phone Scammers and ScammersAlert.
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How r/scambait has grown
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Topics and brands on r/scambait
Top topics
Share of the subreddit's posts
- Scam_Jokes_and_Scammers1.6%
- Phone Scammers1.1%
- ScammersAlert1.1%
- ScamAlerts0.6%
- Job Scams0.6%
Brands people mention
Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months
- TikTok
- INTERPOL
- Wolfram
Everything else about r/scambait
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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