#Scams
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #Scams from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #scams
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-08 02:23 UTC15 uses by 15 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-08 02:23 UTCLive pulse
measured · fosstodon.org (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-08 02:23 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~368 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 14:00
Languages: English (37) · French (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1
Top of the latest posts
If you know that everything you share on your social media account is legal and belongs to you, what would make you block certain people from seeing it? (Comment section is open👐) #scams #socialMedia #digitalArt #contentownership #poll
A friend of mine was scared today by a scammer pretending to be with the local Sheriff's dept claiming he had a warrant for her arrest over failing to show for jury duty and she'd go to jail if she didn't immediately pay him $3k.* It's appa
Yippee! My Mastercard chargeback has arrived, on a provisional basis. (For new readers, this is about a 99% likely fraudulent website that I fell for 30 days ago.) The rules now seem to be that the other party has 45 days to convince Master
What “scams” means
Wiktionary · WikipediaA scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of fraudulent conduct ... intending to further voluntary exchanges that are not mutually beneficial", as they "benefit con operators at the expense of their victims ".
“Scam” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#scams across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #scams straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/scams