Know the scam,
before it gets you.
Scampedia is a scam encyclopedia written daily by an AI that searches real news and government sources, verifies its own citations automatically, and runs every claim through a second, independent fact-check pass against that exact source. New entries then wait for the editor's weekly review before they publish.
From new scam to published article
Every entry starts as a real pattern, gets written up in plain language, and stays connected to live protection.
AI Researches Daily
Twice a day, two AI research jobs search real news and government sources (FTC, FBI, BBB and others) for real scams that aren't documented here yet. They don't invent entries, and add nothing on a day they don't find something solid.
Automatically Checked
Every citation is verified before anything gets further: the link has to actually resolve, and the page it points to has to genuinely be about this specific scam, not just exist.
Fact-Checked Before It Publishes
A second, independent AI pass checks every specific claim in the entry against the real text of its own cited source and blocks anything unsupported. Nothing publishes on the first pass's word alone.
A real encyclopedia,
not a listicle
Every Scam, Documented
Grandparent scams, IRS fraud, romance scams, crypto schemes, AI voice clones, and more — each with its own article.
Categories & A-Z Index
Browse by scam type or alphabetically, with cross-links between related patterns — wiki-style.
AI-Discovered, Source-Cited
New entries are found and written by Scampedia's AI research jobs with real, cited sourcing — not guesswork — and marked "AI-researched".
Synced to VerifyGuard
Every article here also appears inside the VerifyGuard app. Scam phrases from new entries are proposed for the app's scam-pattern checks and added only after the editor approves them.
Updated Weekly
New scam patterns are researched and checked most days, and the editor reviews and publishes them in a weekly batch — this isn't a static list that goes stale.
Free & Public
No account, no paywall. Scampedia is a public safety resource, for anyone.
Know your enemy
A sample of documented scams, each with safety tips written in plain English.
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