Help Us Help You Protect Yourself and Others From Scammers!

Hello you fabulous swappers, and happy Fourth! We hope you guys are having a blast eating BBQ and lighting off fireworks (safely of course).

Now for the meat and potatoes of this post. One type of scam that we deal with often is where scammers will take someone's username and turn it into a subreddit, for example they'd take u/dooms26 and make a sub of it and then messages users from the modmail, meaining you'll receive messages from r/dooms26.

To help combat this, we thought it might be worth while to put out some reminders and ask users (especially anyone with 25 flair and up as that's our G&S limit) to make a subreddit of their username right now so that scammers can't.

In a perfect world, every single one of our users would see this and make a subreddit of their names, but ideally at least most of the higher flaired users will. People with 25 flair and up are more likely to be targeted and have people impersonate them because they can get around having to use G&S that way.

We will be reposting this META on a schedule so that it's regularly seen, thank you guys we love you!