Can I post from a brand new account?
The published rules say new throwaway accounts are automatically filtered or removed unless the username starts with TA followed by a hyphen, so use that prefix or post from an established account.
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r/FraudPrevention rules, stats, and what to post
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- Members
- 19,516
- Community age
- Created Aug 2016, 10 years
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Links
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Promo risk
- HighFrom the rules, not from removal counts
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Rule summary
- Throwaway Account Naming Convention: If you are using a new throwaway account to post on this subreddit for privacy reasons, your username must follow our strict formatting requirement. The account name must begin with these 2 upper case letters TA followed by a hyphen (e.g., TA-fraud.alert). New accounts that do not use this prefix will be automatically filtered or removed to prevent malicious bot spam. Thank you for helping us keep our community safe!
Works well
- A plain walkthrough of a fraud pattern you have seen, written to help others spot it, with no product mention at all
- A question asking the community how they handle a specific fraud scenario, so you learn before you ever mention what you build
- A public share of a general purpose resource that stops fraud, offered with context on why you made it and no pitch attached
- A post from an established account, or a throwaway named with the TA prefix and a hyphen if you need privacy
Avoid
- Posting from a new throwaway account whose username does not start with the TA prefix followed by a hyphen, because the moderators state those posts are automatically filtered or removed
- Sharing account details, case information, or anything sensitive publicly when the description warns that scammers lurk and some things are better discussed in private
- Treating the subreddit as a place to promote fraud prevention tools without first earning trust, since the community exists to fight fraud together and not to hear pitches
- Ignoring the throwaway naming convention and then reposting the same content from another fresh account, which looks like the bot spam the rule was written to stop
What r/FraudPrevention Is For
This community is for people who want to fight fraud together. The description says members share tools to stop fraud in its tracks. It also carries a warning worth reading twice: use common sense, because some things might be better discussed in private, since scammers lurk here too. In practice that means the room is a mix of people swapping anti fraud tactics and people who may be posting carefully because the bad actors are reading along.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
There is only one published rule here, and it is a strange and specific one. “Throwaway Account Naming Convention” says that if you post from a new throwaway account for privacy reasons, the username must start with the two upper case letters TA followed by a hyphen, like TA-fraud.alert. New accounts without that prefix get automatically filtered or removed to stop malicious bot spam. That is the whole published rulebook, so beyond it you are relying on the description's advice to use common sense.
What To Post
A good post here shares something that helps people stop fraud, like a lesson from a real case or a practical tool, and it explains the fraud pattern rather than selling a product. If you need privacy and want to use a fresh account, name it with the TA prefix and a hyphen first, or post from an older established account to skip the issue entirely. Since the description says scammers lurk, keep sensitive details out of public posts and move anything private to private messages. There are no observed top posts for this community, so model your post on the description itself: useful, cautious, and free of anything that reads like a pitch.
What To Avoid
The one stated removal trigger is posting from a new throwaway account whose username does not start with TA followed by a hyphen. The moderators say those posts are automatically filtered or removed. The description also warns that scammers lurk, so anything you would not want a fraudster to read is better kept out of a public post. There are no published rules about promotion, links, or AI content, so nothing else is written down either way.
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Common questions about r/FraudPrevention
Is self promotion allowed?
The rules do not address promotion, so there is no published allowance for it. The description asks members to share tools to stop fraud and to use common sense, so any tool mention should serve that goal.
Should I share details of a fraud case publicly?
The description says some things might be better discussed in private because scammers lurk, so keep sensitive details out of public posts.
Are there rules about links or AI content?
The published rules cover only the throwaway naming convention, so nothing else is stated. Read the room and follow the description's advice to use common sense.
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