Hello and welcome! Below are the TSU posting guidelines. Following these guidelines will help keep TSU clean and organized and better help scam victims navigate the forum!
I aim to keep TSU organized as best as possible for both scam victims and scambaiters.
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Use a simple but descriptive title.
Here are some good examples:- “PayPal Refund Scammer 000-000-0000”
- “$400 Charge Scam Email 000-000-0000”
- “Fake Computer Popup Scam 000-000-0000”
- “Million Dollar Winning Email Scam”
- “PCH Lottery Scammer 000-000-0000”
Here are some bad examples:
- “Fresh 000-000-0000”
- “New PayPal”
- “Fresh PayPal 0000000000”
- “Email just got”
- “New PCH 000 000 0000”
As you can see, a short, simple, and descriptive name allows you to easily understand what the scam is and the fact that it is a post about a scammer. Scam victims will not understand that the bottom half relates to a scammer just from seeing the title. Baiters will also have to guess some of the details and have a hard time reading the unformatted number, too.
Using a simple and well-formatted title will help both potential scam victims searching for the number and baiters using the forum looking for scammers to call.
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Select the right category.
TSU has different categories to classify what type of scam it is you are posting about. All of these categories are under the parent Scammers category. If any scam information is posted outside of this category it will either be deleted or rejected from the post queue if done multiple times. If it’s the first or second time, I will fix it for you.Make sure you select what fits closest to your scam, like either a Scammers > Refund scams, Scammers > Lottery Winnings, ETC. If you cannot find the right category or you are unsure, put it in Scammers > Other.
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Follow the auto-filled template.
Each category has a template that will auto-fill into the body of the post after you select the category. Please make sure you don’t delete this, but simply fill it in. If you don’t have some of the information it is asking for on a scammer’s website, you can just leave that part blank!This helps keep posts organized in a standard format so it’s easier to follow and read when going through each post. The template is also used to help with SEO if someone types in the number of a scammer, or email, they will see “Scammers Number” or Scammers Email" in the body and quickly realize it is a scam and stop communicating with said scammer.
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Don’t spam reply to different unrelated numbers under one topic.
If you have multiple scammers, make separate posts. Do not make long threads of unrelated numbers. This makes organization worse and readability worse. If you know for sure that 2 scam numbers are going to the same people, then please keep them in the same thread, because that helps with organization, unlike spamming random unrelated groups all doing the same scam in one massive thread!
TD;DR:
- Use clean and descriptive titles clearly stating that it is a scam.
- Post in the proper category, or post in Scammers > Other if unsure.
- Follow the auto-filled post template.
- Don’t spam unrelated groups in massive threads just because they are doing the same type of scam; only group them if they are the same group.
I think overall, these are fairly simple. I am writing these guidelines because, as of late, the forum has become more and more fractured in it’s content and amount of lower-quality posts.
I made this forum to help scam victims first, above everything else. I don’t get anything from running this forum, and with that, I want it to continue to be a place where would-be scam victims can hopefully see that a scam is a scam before being scammed, just like I did with my early videos on YouTube.
This is also a place for scambaiters, and without people posting so many numbers, fewer victims would find these scams and information about them. I want this place to be a nice stop for baiters, too, for easily finding scams to take on and waste time!