#techsupportscam

Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #techsupportscam from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.

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2
Uses / 7 days
Mastodon
1
Accounts / 7 days
Mastodon
36
Recent posts
Mastodon
~0/hr
Recent pace
Mastodon · last 36
0.1
Avg reactions / post
Mastodon · last 36
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Reddit posts / month
Reddit search
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Open-web mentions
hashtag.org Firehose

Day-by-day usage

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-10-13 10:30 UTC
0
10-07
0
10-08
0
10-09
0
10-10
0
10-11
2
10-12
0
10-13

2 uses by 1 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.

Related hashtags

measured · mas.to (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-10-13 10:30 UTC
#techsupportscams
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#techsupportscammer
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#techsupportscamban
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d
#techsupportscammers
0 uses · 0 accounts / 7d

Live pulse

measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-10-13 10:30 UTC

Everything below is measured over the latest 36 public posts (spanning ~59384 hours).

Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 11:00

00:0012:0023:00

Languages: English (31) · Dutch (3) · French (1) · enCy (1)

Avg boosts / post: 0.9

Top of the latest posts

  • Good morning! Going to have to ask people to stop trying to scam the elderly. #techsupportscam "No grandma, McAfee isn't going to turn off your computer because you didn't send them $800 in apple and Amazon gift cards. I promise."

    Ashley Apples@cobalt3811♥ 2↻ 02022-11-08 15:22 UTCView post →

  • Scam ads in Yahoo Mail hid a fake Microsoft support alert Sponsored messages in AT&T's Yahoo Mail sent some Windows users to a fake Microsoft security alert with a number to call, while our data center and phone visits got articles. We trac

    Tuxxin@tuxxin@infosec.exchange♥ 0↻ 12026-10-12 13:47 UTCView post →

  • Yahoo Mail malvertising: two cloaked tech support scam chains Two scam operations ran ads in AT&T's Yahoo Mail on October 7 and 8, 2026. In whack.sh scans, Windows desktops on home broadband got a fake Microsoft alert, while a data center a

    Tuxxin@tuxxin@infosec.exchange♥ 0↻ 12026-10-12 13:23 UTCView post →

#techsupportscam across platforms

every network with a public tag surface

Follow #techsupportscam straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.

X (Twitter) ↗Instagram ↗TikTok ↗Facebook ↗LinkedIn ↗YouTube ↗Threads ↗Bluesky ↗Mastodon ↗Reddit ↗Pinterest ↗Tumblr ↗

Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/techsupportscam