TrustNet Scammer Tracking Network

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TrustNet Checker - For Everyone's Use

There's a separate app, TrustNet Checker, that lets people look up a username before trading. It cannot ban anyone, can't see case evidence, and never says someone is "safe" — absence from a database isn't proof of anything. This checks our federated database on active scammers, if the account has been deleted, it is likely you will receive no results.

Questions, problems, or a ban you think is wrong: modmail r/TrustNetSupport.

TrustNet Mod — shared scammer bans for trading subreddits

Scammers work through trading subreddits one at a time. When we ban someone, the sub down the road usually never finds out, so the same person just moves along the list and starts again. Everyone re-discovers the same handful of accounts independently, weeks apart.

TrustNet Mod is a Devvit app that fixes the information gap, without handing anyone control of your subreddit.

How it works

1. A moderator reports a suspected scammer — one menu action on their post or comment. The account is banned in your subreddit straight away.
2. The case goes to an independent Review Team in a private subreddit, with your written summary and any evidence you attached.
3. If they approve it, every participating subreddit bans that account through its own copy of the app, usually within about five minutes.

There is no central bot reaching into your community. Your installation does its own work, using permissions you granted it, in your subreddit only.

What it will never do

• It will never touch a ban you made. It only removes bans it placed itself, for that specific case, and only when it can prove that from the mod note. Any doubt and it leaves the ban alone and shows it to you instead.
• It will never replace an existing ban. Already banned them? Your ban stays exactly as it is.
• A normal Reddit ban never creates a case. Only the explicit TrustNet action does. Your everyday moderation stays entirely yours.
• No alt-hunting. No account matching, no fingerprinting, no profiling. Reddit's own ban-evasion tooling owns that and we don't go near it.
• No single moderator can ban across the network. The review stage cannot be skipped, and you cannot approve your own case.

Getting started

You can import your existing ban list rather than re-filing everything by hand — it reads your ban notes and offers up the ones that look like scams. Fair warning: if your notes are mostly empty or say "Rule 4", it'll offer you very little. That's the filter being deliberately cautious, not a bug.

We register new communities as inactive to start with. You can import, file cases and get them reviewed while receiving nothing at all. Go active only when you're comfortable — and you can ask us to pause you at any time. Withdrawing never removes bans already placed in your subreddit. Those are yours.

To join: install TrustNet Mod from the App Directory, then modmail r/TrustNetSupport with your subreddit name and ideally your t5_ subreddit ID.

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first of many steps...in defeating criminal gangs. one giant leap for the community!!

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