Scam Dollars
A small site about how money gets separated from people.
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ScamDollars began with a sentence that has powered a thousand bad decisions: a promise of certainty, offered in exchange for the very information you’re trying to protect.
This site studies the shape of those traps — not the people running them. It’s a pattern library and a notebook: how scams borrow legitimacy, manufacture urgency, and turn caution into compliance.
What this is
- Short essays about scam mechanics, interface pressure, and authority laundering
- A pattern library (the repeatable moves, not the latest villains)
- Notes for anyone trying to keep their attention — and their money — intact
What this is not
- Not a submission box. Not a public callout board.
- Not a list of active scammers or a place to “report” anyone.
- Not instructions, playbooks, or “how it’s done.”
Start here
- Patterns — the recurring moves
- Anatomy — how the trap assembles
- Notes — newer writing
- About — posture, scope, and boundaries