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The band will be in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland next spring!

Here's the full-text of the Facebook announcement:

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Theocracy Announces “Grand Mosaic Tour 2027” Through Europe

The melodic/power metal band THEOCRACY returns to Europe in 2027 for the “Grand Mosaic Tour 2027.” The American group kicks off their new European tour on Friday, March 5, at Nieuwe Nor in Heerlen. In addition to the Netherlands, Theocracy will visit Belgium, France, Germany, and Switzerland.

Theocracy has built a strong following in Europe, and their latest album, Mosaic, has been well received. The album was released through ATOMIC FIRE (now REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC), afte

I'm creating this post so that there will be something that shows up highly-ranked in search (both Reddit and Google). The decade-long run of !blackmail scam emails continues unabated and we have called it by many names, such as Hello Pervert and Pegasus, over the years.

Recently, we're starting to get reports that a round of them begin with Hello Sinner. And that seems to be a fairly new occurrence, as searching for it in Google leads me to just a small number of results - the earliest being April 2026.

But because I saw a recipient of it say in another post "I actually tried the search option, searched for "sinner" but could not find anything similar", I think it's beneficial for us to

As a general rule, r/scams doesn't like to categorically disallow posts about a scam type and we haven't done that for quite a while (although we have done it occasionally in the past).  But after a lot of discussion amongst the mods, the time has come for us to stop accepting sextortion posts and instead direct them to r/sextortion, where victims will get better answers and support.

Starting now (Oct 2025), we will be removing sextortion posts with a removal reason that redirects them to r/sextortion (and specifically the pinned post over there), while simultaneously giving them the "best practice" standard answer you've all been dutifully typing out for years. The mods over there are awa

In this sub, we have many people asking how to stop the flood of scammers calling.  And we usually answer: "figure out how to silence unknown callers on your phone".

Well, now Apple has built-in a screener under its Screen Unknown Callers setting: 'Ask Reason for Calling'.  It's part of the recent iOS 26 (prior to this, iPhone users had to download a third-party app).

The big advantage: silencing all numbers left you not knowing what you're missing until you listen to voicemail.  With this, legit callers have a way to give you info immediately, so you can screen it and pick up if you know they're legit.

Article: 'Apple Just Added A Powerful Anti-Scam Tool To iPhones — Here’s How To Acti

Here's a feel-good, 4.5-minute news story of a stranger intervening as a 75-year-old couple is at a Bitcoin ATM being scammer by a government impersonator: https://www.wsaw.com/2025/02/26/theyre-not-cops-good-samaritan-saves-couple-being-scammed-out-thousands/

Summary: they are just about to send $9,000 to a scammer posing as a U.S. Marshall when a customer overhears it and tells them it's a scam. There's also a nice segment where the local sheriff explains the scam to the store owner (who says he regularly sees people at the ATM crying as they put in their money).

Moral of the stor

A few days ago, we had an OP who reported that their relatives were stuck in a scam going by the name Ethixor.  They didn't have many details and were looking for arguments from us they could use to try to pry their relatives out of it.  Unfortunately, they deleted the post, but I think it was worth having the information out here for potential victims to land on when they google Ethixor.  So here are the relevant details:

It was some kind of combo investment scam + Ponzi scheme.  The OP's relatives claimed that 7,000 euros had been deposited into their Revolut account.

One brand-new Reddit account that replied (either a scammer or a victim who doesn't know it yet) claimed that Ethixor "is

Here are two stories of law enforcement crypto recovery for victims, both announced within a few hours yesterday.

Remember: if your loss is significant, always report it to law enforcement (this sub has reporting links in the sidebar).  Just because the perpetrators are overseas and can't be reached physically, doesn't mean that the funds can't be frozen and seized by law enforcement.

CNBC: 'DOJ seizes record $225 million in crypto tied to global ‘pig butchering’ scams': https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/18/doj-crypto-scams.html

- "The DOJ thanked [world’s largest stablecoin issuer] Tether for aiding the probe and urged more victims

Mod note: I'm posting this on behalf of an OP who had trouble getting their post properly formatted, but I think it's important to get this info (especially this domain name) here and searchable by Google.  I'll direct OP to this post and it's up to them if they want to reply or not.

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OP has posted a sale on OfferUp, but it is fairly unfamiliar with how OfferUp works.  An OfferUp user with a track record of 1 positive transaction messaged them:

"Hi, is this still available?"

One minute later, the user messaged again:

"Соngrаtulаtiоns! Yоur itеm has bееn purсhаsеd, cоmplеte the trаnsасtiоn аnd rесеive pаymеnt: ....offerup[dot]𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮/......" [the remainder of the UR

I get a lot of !refund scam e-mails and we're all used to the "you purchased something" version (exploiting names like Amazon, Norton, McAfee, Geek Squad, and Coinbase - the latter claiming to be a Bitcoin/crypto purchase), but this is the first time I'm seeing a credit card application version.  Since this variant hasn't been posted here before and this e-mail has some unique phrases in it, I'm dropping this here for Google in case anyone googles this wording down the road.

If anyone is interested in watching the refund scam play out, you can see it in this Mark Rober video at 6:55-10:48: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g

Refund e-m

I'm new here (taking delivery of a 2024 Ascent Touring next week).  I searched the sub for old Sirius XM posts, but didn't see this particular topic addressed.

I have Sirius XM in the vehicle I'm trading in. I love it and plan to continue in my Ascent. I know that Sirius XM forces you to play the "I want to cancel" game to get a decent rate and I've been doing that for years. I do appreciate that you don't have to call anymore and can simply go to your online account, say you want to cancel, and it will give you offers right there.

I'm trying to figure out how to best optimize this since I will have a free trial coming with the new vehicle.  I'm planning to just cancel the subscription on

For the many times people in this sub ask "Why doesn't Facebook/Google/YouTube/etc remove obvious scam posts/ads?", here's the start of us getting there. From what I've read, Australia and the UK are way ahead of the US in coming up with effective anti-scam laws and regulations

Reuters: 'Australia to bring anti-scam law targeting internet giants this year, regulator says'

https://www.reuters.com/technology/australia-bring-anti-scam-law-targeting-internet-giants-this-year-regulator-says-2024-07-12/

Relevant parts:

"Australia plans to introduce a law by the en

Just a test - which I will delete shortly.