If you have been scammed

Please contact the payment provider used and make a report to your local authorities! Scambaiters are individuals and not a recognized authority so please don’t go to them for help with a scam incident! TSU is a forum for reporting and sharing scammer information and helping shut down and expose scams, not a support page for people who are in need of help after being scammed.

Helpful links:
stopfraud.gov
usa.gov
fbi.gov
econsumer.gov
ftc.gov
ic3.gov

Flag dead numbers and keep TSU spam-free

Please do not reply to posts stating that a certain number is dead/inactive as this creates spam on the forum and brings numbers that are dead unnecessarily all the way to the top of the forum. if you run into a dead number please flag it so TSU staff can put it in the Dead numbers category and help keep the forum organized. Guide for flagging dead numbers: Guide

My topics are not showing up?

Every topic created for users that are not in the member group on the forum will go through a review queue where staff will check the number or information on the post to verify if it is a scam and in the case of a number that the number is still active. Numbers or posts not leading to a scammer will be rejected and if non-scammer information is posted multiple times it may lead to an account suspension, Dead numbers will also be rejected.

Supporting TSU

TSU is supported by the community! This is done through advertisements placed on the site and optional Patreon support for some special perks across the site! TSU will always be free to access for any user with an internet connection, supporting TSU helps us pay for server bills and dedicate time for site maintenance. If you wish to make a monetary donation you can join one of the eligible tiers on my Patreon page! :heart:

This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion

Please treat this discussion forum with the same respect you would a public park. We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share skills, knowledge and interests through ongoing conversation.

These are not hard and fast rules, merely guidelines to aid the human judgment of our community and keep this a clean and well-lighted place for civilized public discourse.

Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree

You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:

  • Name-calling
  • Ad hominem attacks
  • Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
  • Knee-jerk contradiction

Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations we have here set the tone for every new arrival. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make this forum an interesting place to be — and avoiding those that do not.

Discourse provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: bookmarks, likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.

Let’s leave our community better than we found it.

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for this forum. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. It encourages the bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.

Always Be Civil

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

  • Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
  • Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
  • Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
  • Respect our forum. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the forum.

These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of the New York Times.

This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.

Keep It Tidy

Make the effort to put things in the right place, so that we can spend more time discussing and less cleaning up. So:

  • Don’t start a topic in the wrong category.
  • Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
  • Don’t post no-content replies.
  • Don’t divert a topic by changing it midstream.
  • Don’t sign your posts — every post has your profile information attached to it.

Rather than posting “+1” or “Agreed”, use the Like button. Rather than taking an existing topic in a radically different direction, use Reply as a Linked Topic.

Post Only Your Own Stuff

You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.

Terms of Service

Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have a Terms of Service describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by our TOS.