Judging strangers on Reddit,
done properly.

How to spot a Reddit scammer before you send money

The patterns that give scam accounts away: age, history, pasted text, payment demands, and how to check any seller in five minutes.

7 minute read

Is this Reddit seller legit? The five minute check

A five minute ritual to run on any Reddit seller before money moves: profile, comments, trade history, the timestamp test, and the payment question.

6 minute read

The seven most common Reddit marketplace scams

The seven mechanisms behind most Reddit marketplace scams, how each one works, and the specific counter that defeats it.

6 minute read

Reddit ticket scams: how fake sellers actually work

How Reddit ticket scams actually work: copied PDFs, double selling, recalled transfers, and why gate meetups and platform transfers beat screenshots.

5 minute read

Buying PC parts on Reddit: red flags in hardware trades

What to check before a Reddit hardware trade: confirmed trades, timestamps, mining wear, and the prices that exist only to hurry you.

6 minute read

Why DM me is the most reliable scam signal on Reddit

Why moving a Reddit deal to private messages is the strongest single scam signal, what DMs strip away, and the few legitimate exceptions.

5 minute read

Stolen aged accounts: why account age alone proves nothing

Reddit account age is bought, stolen and inherited. What the created-versus-active gap reveals, and why behaviour change is the real tell.

5 minute read

Safe ways to pay for a Reddit trade

Which payment methods protect a Reddit trade and which cannot be pulled back: PayPal Goods and Services, credit cards, and the scammer favourites.

5 minute read

Can you trust Reddit advice? How to judge who is answering

Upvotes measure agreement, not expertise. How to read the account behind a confident comment before you act on it.

6 minute read

How to spot a bot account on Reddit

The tells that separate bots from people on Reddit: rigid posting rhythm, recycled comments, generated filler, and volume no human life could produce.

5 minute read

Copypasta accounts: the same reply in a hundred threads

Why the same reply appears in a hundred threads, how to catch it with a quoted search, and what repetition does and does not prove about an account.

5 minute read

Who actually answers your AITA post?

AITA verdicts come from an ecosystem: drama-diet readers, one-verdict accounts, and a pile-on that forms in the first hour. Know who is judging you.

5 minute read

Lawyer up, cut them off: when Reddit advice is a pattern, not advice

Cut them off, lawyer up, sell the car: why extreme advice wins Reddit votes, and how to tell a considered answer from an account's reflex.

5 minute read

Astroturfing on Reddit: how shills fake grassroots opinion

How astroturfing works on Reddit and the patterns that expose it: age clusters, single-product histories, and talking points that arrive in unison.

5 minute read

How to read a Reddit account's history in two minutes

What to open, what to scan, and the five questions that tell you who you are dealing with on Reddit, in about two minutes, no tools required.

5 minute read

What a Vetall trust score means, band by band

What the 0 to 100 score actually measures, what each band tells you, what the score cannot know, and exactly who sees what.

5 minute read

What Reddit karma actually measures, and what it cannot

What Reddit karma counts, how it is farmed, why marketplace subs stopped trusting it, and the few things it still tells you about an account.

5 minute read

The signals behind a Vetall score, explained honestly

Every measurement behind a Vetall score: what each catches, how each can mislead alone, and why no single signal ever decides the verdict.

5 minute read

What AI can and cannot tell you about a Reddit account

An even-handed look at what AI pattern reading can tell you about a Reddit account, where it goes blind, and when a machine verdict deserves trust.

5 minute read

Checking an account by hand versus automatically

What a careful human reader catches that automation misses, what automation sees that no human can, and why the honest answer is to use both.

5 minute read