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Scam Town
The game where you write the scams, so you spot real ones
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The game where you write the scams, so you spot real ones
2 followers
A free browser game about scams awareness. You read letters, texts and calls in a made-up town and decide which are real, and you build scams yourself from ready-made pieces to fool your neighbours. Every answer shows the tell. No download, no email, no chat, ages 13+.
Launch Team
Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentGive every agent its own machine. Starts in under a second
Promoted
I made this on my own in the UK. Most scam-awareness tools are quizzes that lecture you. Here you're on both sides: you build scam letters, texts and calls from ready-made pieces and send them to your neighbours in a small online town. You also get theirs, and you decide trust, ignore or check. Every answer shows the tell. Getting scammed costs coins and then your decorations, so it stings a little, and the sting is the lesson.
Some design choices:
There's no free text anywhere, for safety (13+). Every message is built from fixed pieces, so nobody can send real links or contact details.
Every brand is invented, and every link ends in .test and never opens.
Sign-up is a username and password only, with no email. (I know HN prefers no sign-up at all; it's needed because other players' scams come to your house.)
It's in English, Vietnamese and Simplified Chinese, and there are 12 written guides to the scams in it: https://ardianic.com/scam-town/scams/