Hardworking scammers have been hitting Reddit since no later than March 20, 2025, pushing malware masquerading as “TradingView Premium Free Lifetime". Five days ago, the malware was posted in a subreddit created just for scams (so of course, there’s a “mod” in on it).

Sometime since, Reddit suspended the poster’s account, but the original scam post was left effectively untouched (possibly restored by the scammer from their mod account). Meanwhile, the fake mod keeps deleting any comments that call out the scam.

You can see the pattern: alt accounts cross‑post the scam wherever they can. In subs where the scammers don’t have mod powers, users might flag it—perhaps many users debate it, or there’s just one user who posts “trojan”.

And the first result on Google for “tradingview free premium reddit”? It links to a deleted post, but no problem–a scammer’s linked a new thread in a pinned comment, edited with an updated link as needed.

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spez, your loved ones use your site–is your partner Google helping you run threads through the filters that would have caught this at time of posting? Your investors’ loved ones use reddit too, so don’t let their inability to attach revenue to fighting fraud cloud the reality that a lack of enforcement hurts people.

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PS: s/o to Bradley Kemp, founder of Phish.Report, the free(-to-us) WHOIS-but-more service that guides to registrar/host abuse contacts and creates a urlscan.io report. (Yours truly is unaffiliated with either.) Simply copy/paste phishing & malware links into the site and go from there. Ain’t much but honest unpaid work 😉