Scams
Every scam format in Scam With Your Friends compared by pace, setup cost and risk, plus quota planning so the daily target is banked before the boss's review lands.
Introduction
Scams covers the money side of the call centre: what the different schemes ask of you, how they pace, and how to plan a working day so the quota is already banked before the review window opens. The important thing to understand up front is that the game does not publish a list of named schemes with fixed payouts. What it gives you is an arsenal that expands as a run progresses and a caller on the other end of the line who reacts to what you actually say. That means the useful knowledge is structural rather than statistical: which style of con needs a long setup and which one pays quickly, how much pressure a target tolerates before hanging up, and how to sequence a shift so a slow, high-effort call does not eat the day. Everything on this page is written as strategy and process, never as invented numbers.
Scam Format Comparison
| Format | Pace | Setup Needed | Risk | Best Use |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tech support | Fast | Low — a believable problem and a confident voice | Medium | Warming up a shift and building an early quota buffer |
| Refund / overcharge | Medium | Medium — account details collected before the call | Medium | Mid-shift runs where the victim machine has already been searched |
| Gift card | Fast | Low — urgency does most of the work | High | Short calls when the clock is tight and quota is close |
| Crypto / investment | Slow | High — needs a story that survives follow-up questions | Medium | Long cons once the day's basic quota is secured |
| Bank / account | Medium | High — security answers and personal details come first | High | Targets whose password recovery answers you already found |
| Prize / lottery | Fast | Low — excitement carries the first thirty seconds | Medium | Filling gaps between longer, higher-effort calls |
Format Deep Dive
Tech Support Format
The bread-and-butter format for an opening shift: fast to set up, easy to abandon if it goes wrong, and ideal for banking an early surplus.
Refund / Overcharge Format
A mid-shift favourite that only really works once the victim machine has given you something to reference during the conversation.
Gift Card Format
The sharpest double-edged format in the game: quick and effective when the clock is short, and the fastest way to draw attention when rushed.
Investment / Crypto Format
The long con of the arsenal. It demands preparation and patience, and it consumes a large share of the day you are trying to protect.
Bank / Account Format
The format that most depends on investigation, because the security answers found on the victim's machine are what make the approach credible.
Prize / Lottery Format
A gap-filler rather than a strategy: useful for squeezing value out of the minutes between longer, more demanding conversations.
Core Mechanics
The scam system sits on top of three moving parts: a daily quota, an arsenal that grows as the run progresses, and callers who are generated live rather than selected from a script. The quota is the backbone. It is tracked as a running total across the working day and judged at the review, so the economy rewards pacing rather than one lucky conversation. The arsenal broadens as you advance, which quietly changes the correct strategy: early in a run you only have a few tools and must make them fit whatever caller arrives, while later you can pick the approach that suits a target instead of forcing a target into the approach you happen to have. Because callers respond to the words you use, a scheme is really a talk track. Establish a plausible reason for the call, hold the caller's attention while you gather what you need, and only then apply pressure. Doing those three things in the wrong order is what loses calls.
Advantages
The strongest advantage of a well-planned shift is that the scams system rewards sequencing more than raw speed. Because the quota is a running total, you can deliberately open with two or three fast formats to secure a buffer, and then spend the middle of the day on a slow con that needs a long setup but pays for the patience. The expanding arsenal compounds this: each new option you unlock lets you answer a caller type you would previously have had to abandon, so a crew that invests in progression early has more ways to turn an awkward caller into income. Live-generated dialogue is also unusually forgiving of improvisation. There is no correct sentence to discover and no hidden dialogue tree to fail, so a player who can think on their feet is never locked out by not knowing the script. Finally, because every call is independent, a single bad conversation costs a minute rather than a shift.
Challenges
The scams system is also the part of the game most likely to end a run, for two reasons. First, nothing is documented: there is no official scheme list, no payout table and no published odds, so you cannot optimise from a spreadsheet and must learn from failure instead. That makes early shifts expensive. Second, aggressive formats invite aggressive responses, and a caller who suspects something is wrong either hangs up or calls you back as a scambaiter, which converts a profitable minute into a hazardous one. Pacing pressure badly is the other common failure: because the conversation is generated, a target who has decided they do not trust you becomes almost impossible to recover, and continuing to push only burns the clock. Treating the quota as a target to sprint at is therefore the classic mistake, since a shift that front-loads everything leaves nothing in reserve for the hours when the calls get harder.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Quick Tips
Open every shift with your fastest available formats. The quota is judged at the end of the day, so an early surplus is the cheapest protection you can buy: it converts a late police raid, virus infection or air strike from a run-ending event into an inconvenience. Fast formats need almost no setup, which also means they use the part of the day when the office is still quiet, leaving the noisy stretch for calls that can tolerate interruption and do not depend on a long unbroken conversation.
Match pressure to the caller, not to your own impatience. The callers are generated live and they react to tone, so the same line delivered as a threat and as a helpful explanation produce completely different outcomes. Build the reason for the call first, keep the caller talking, and only close hard once they are already engaged. Applying urgency to someone who is still deciding whether to trust you is the fastest way to lose a call that was otherwise winnable.
Treat every stalled call as a cost with a clock attached. There is no hidden dialogue tree to brute force, so a caller who has stopped engaging will rarely come back, and the minutes you spend on them are minutes the quota does not move. Give a stalled conversation one clear attempt at a new angle, and if it does not land, end the call and move on. Over a full working day, the player who abandons dead calls quickly will out-earn the player who fights for every single one.
Do the setup work during breaks, not during calls. The details a scheme needs live on the victim's computer, and hunting for them while a caller waits on the line burns the same working day you are trying to protect. Use the gap between calls to log in, collect the specific information the active scheme asks for, and close the session before you leave the desk. Arriving at a call with the details already in hand turns a slow format into a fast one.
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