ScamWhammer is a filter list for cryptocurrency scam websites, Youtube videos, Play Store downloads, Medium pages and more.This filter list is unfinished, hence why it's in the Project Development section.
Currently there are over
25,000 unique scam websites (20,000 HYIPs and 5000 scams) in the filter list, but almost no pages because I haven't gathered many yet. It incorporates all the HYIPs in
HYIPLogs (Javascript warning: lots of ads) and the listed badsites on the
Badbitcoin badlist. I don't have an automated way to retrieve typosquatted domains yet so most of them are missing from the list.
It works with Adblock and Adblock Plus by removing the page content, and Adguard and uBlock Origin by blocking the site outright. Due to Adblock limitations, entire sites can't be blocked so instead it hides their page content.
How to useAdd the URL of this filter list
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ZenulAbidin/scamwhammer/master/filter-blocklist.txt (huge file) to your adblocker. The procedure varies depending on the adblocker you are using so look it up on the internet if you're not sure how to add a custom filter list. The list goes stale every 7 days. This may change in the future.
The goal is to get this filter list included in adblockers by default, when they are installed into the browser.
How I choose which sites get blockedAgain, this filter list is by no means limited to whole sites, it works perfectly fine with arbitrary URLs, including those with queries at the end such as
?action=post;board=12.0.
For the purposes of the rules below I will call all pages off the domain(s) promoting the site, such as Youtube videos, Google Play Store app pages, Medium pages, etc.
URLs.
1) If the site in question is in the Badlist, then its domains and all URLs will be included.
2) If the site is an HYIP, its domains and all URLs will also be included.
13) (Temporarily retracted) If the site in question is a controversial exchange, casino or other cryptocurrency operation, then all of its domains, but no individual URLs, will be included. For the purpose of making rules, a site is
controversial if it either a) has at least 3 open credible scam accusations against it or b) the official bitcointalk account representing the site has an active flag against it. I regard a scam accusation as
open if the associated thread is less than 5 years old
2 and not locked or otherwise labeled "closed", and as
credible if the scam accusation in question indicates that the site mishandled funds (individual users' accounts getting hacked are not credible, but if the whole site gets hacked and the site does not replenish its funds then that's credible).
4) All typosquatting and foriegn-character-typosquatting domains impersonating non-controversial (genuine) and controversial sites will be included indiscriminately.
35) Sites and URLs will not be removed from the list if they are taken down. Sites may be removed if the domain is sold to someone who then uses it for a legitimate activity, but associated URLs will not be removed.
6) I reserve the right to change, and or remove criteria or include and remove individual sites at any time.
NEW 7) Sites and URLs of faucets won't be added to the list unless they have a deposit option.
1 Because I believe that HYIPs are no different from gambling, the only difference being HYIPs make explicit promises of
guarantee to make a profit which is clearly lying. If you don't like this decision then feel free to add your favorite HYIP site to your adblocker's whitelist.
2 An issue arises if the associated scam accusation is credible. In that case as long as the remaining credible scam accusations is less than 3, I'll remove the domains from the list and let them go at good-faith. On one hand the site may have cleaned up its act since then and the topic starter forgets to lock the thread (this part happens frequently) but on the other hand I'm not sure this is the best thing to do, feel free to tell me your suggestions about this.
3 Typosquatting something like an exchange or casino is an inherently malicious thing to do, and if there are URLs associated with the typosquatting site, those will also be included in the list.
Here are the list of sites that are currently in the list according to rule 3. I anticipate more will be added to the list. Temporarily inactive
These rules are designed to make it easy for me to select sites to add to the list while I browse the Scam Accusations board.
Homepage Github repoIf you would like to request permission to edit the ScamWhammer repository, this is the thread to do so. It requires you submit a pull request with the filter rules added properly. See the github repo README for instructions on how to add filter rules manually.
I'm also going to request the BadBitcoin staff for access to the raw list of scam sites so I can include them all at once, searching for them one by one is proving to be exhausting.
This topic will be self-moderated because reports for inclusion here and requests from exclusion from it will be handled in separate threads, to make things easier to navigate. Please keep discussion here on-topic about ScamWhammer.
Associated threadsReport inclusions into ScamWhammer here.Request removals from ScamWhammer here.Changelog:2020-07-21: Add CSV file of blocked domains with name and date added columns
2020-05-03: Add rule 7, temporarily retract rule 3
I'll try my best.
