Posts asking about scams are very commonly voted the top of this subreddit. A lot of the users here are young and may be somewhat naive to what may seem like an otherwise obvious scam to older users.
I think it's great the people feel comfortable asking about scams on this subreddit, especially if they might be embarrassed to ask someone else in person, but a lot of those threads boil down to "[Somewhat obvious scam] happened today, is this a scam?" and the replies can't go much further than saying "Yes, it's a scam" over an over.
I was thinking that it might be helpful to the /r/personalfinance community to have a "Common scams" link on the sidebar and a corresponding wiki page, and there we could provide a list of common scams with a few bullet points for each about how they work and why they're scams, and additional links to webpages like http://ift.tt/2kcsZUa or http://ift.tt/2sHCGv6.
What do you think?
Submitted June 23, 2017 at 01:19AM by pierresderriere http://ift.tt/2rXLLmo
