Welcome to SCAMerica. There is no polite way to say this: you are being played. Every day, you are targeted, manipulated, and fleeced by a system that treats your attention, your data, and your money as commodities to be extracted. The scam is not some rare event, some isolated crime. It is the operating system of modern American life.

From the moment you wake up, your devices are bombarded with carefully engineered lies. Your inbox is a battlefield of phishing attempts, your phone rings with robo-call predators, and your social feeds are littered with ads designed to exploit your insecurities. The scam is not just the crook in a basement; it is the corporation that sells your data, the bank that hides fees in fine print, the “customer service” rep who tells you the rules changed, and the government that looks the other way.

This book does not offer comfort. It offers clarity. It is a field guide to the predators, the tactics, and the institutions that profit from your confusion. If you want sugar-coated advice or gentle reassurance, close this book now. If you want to see the truth, keep reading. The scam is real. The stakes are high. The time to wake up is now (see the generated image above).

Here is a brutal, no BS catalog of the major scam types in America, with real examples, typical amounts lost, and when they happened, perfect for your book SCAMerica.