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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 can't publish anything without a human merging it first.

Documented scam patterns on Scampedia
How Scampedia Works

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.

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AI Researches Daily

Once a day, an AI searches real news, FTC, FBI, and BBB sources for a genuinely new scam trend. It never invents one, and skips the day entirely if it doesn't find something solid.

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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.

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Requires a Merge to Publish

Every entry becomes a pull request, not a live page, until someone reviews and merges it. There's no automatic path around that.

What's Here

A real encyclopedia,
not a listicle

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Every Scam, Documented

Grandparent scams, IRS fraud, romance scams, crypto schemes, AI voice clones, and more — each with its own article.

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Categories & A-Z Index

Browse by scam type or alphabetically, with cross-links between related patterns — wiki-style.

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AI-Discovered, Source-Cited

New entries are surfaced by VerifyGuard's AI and written with real, cited sourcing — not guesswork.

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Synced to VerifyGuard

Every article here is also live inside the VerifyGuard app, so what you read powers real-time detection.

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Updated Daily

A new scam pattern is researched, verified, and added most days — this isn't a static list that goes stale.

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Free & Public

No account, no paywall. Scampedia is a public safety resource, for anyone.

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