Torn Scamming Guide: All 11 Scams, Mark Multipliers and Suspicion

Aim for 10,000 to 20,000 early

That is enough to send every available spam category daily until diminishment kicks in. Twenty thousand is worth it only if you have nerve to spare and use refills.

CS 40 and above needs 100,000 or more

Advanced scams simply will not generate responses below that. Get there after completing the Computer Science courses so it costs less nerve.

If your goal is crime skill rather than money, stop farming at a comfortable number and let the Phisher and Scraper do the rest while you grind scams.

Occasional paid sources appear

Rarely, farming offers 200 to 700 addresses for a small fee between $250 and $3,000. Always worth taking at that price.

Both follow a bell curve

They start slowly after deployment, accelerate dramatically in the middle of their life, then taper off as they approach expiry. A freshly deployed Scraper is not immediately producing 1,000 a day.

Diminishment reduces repeat waves

Send several waves of the same category and each subsequent one generates fewer responses. Rotate categories rather than spamming one.

Target exhaustion is longer-lasting

Eventually a category stops producing responses entirely, even from waves that used to generate a dozen. The only fix is waiting, and sending more waves appears to worsen exhaustion even when nothing comes back. Leave that category alone for a day or more.

Having more addresses shortens how long exhausted targets take to replenish.

Awaiting response means the queue is working

That message means responses are queued and will arrive over an unpredictable period. If an advanced scam generates no queue at all, that is your signal that you need more addresses rather than more waves.

Delivery for early progression

Almost no red cells, concern is rare, and reward zones are very wide. The payout is minimal but it is the safest place to learn the persuasion bar.

Vacation is the best mid-game category

Rated easy despite unlocking at CS 40, with a decent payout. It has plenty of red zones but an equally high number of temptation zones, so you can use temptation to move quickly through it.

Job pays better than Advance-fee at the same tier

Both unlock at CS 60, but Job averages $93,000 against $67,000 and is rated moderate rather than difficult. Advance-fee is heavy on sensitivity with slim reward zones. Prefer Job.

Investment is the ceiling and the hardest

The highest average at $230,000 and capable of 2.5 million with the right mark, but loaded with red and concern zones and thin reward bands. Worth it only once you are confident with the bar.

Tech Support is deceptive: few red zones, but a great deal of concern. The risk is wasted nerve rather than outright failure.

An Affluent mark is worth ten Young Adults

The multiplier stacks on top of the capitalisation multiplier, so combinations can differ by more than tenfold on the same scam category.

Abandon poor marks without hesitation

The mark only affects payout, never the persuasion bar layout or your odds. If you draw a Young Adult on an Investment scam, abandoning and waiting for a better response is often correct. Click the mark icon to abandon, or swipe right on mobile.

It accelerates rather than ticking up

Red cells spread from the left, adding one more cell each movement than the last: one, then two more, then three more. It never covers the cell you are standing on, but it can fill the rest of the bar and force you to abandon.

The first two responses are free

Suspicion starts at -1 and generates red cells before it starts climbing, so it only begins to bite on your third response. It also does not start at all until the pip leaves the starting cell, so you can accelerate safely at the beginning.

It caps at 8, and you get 10 to 11 increases

Once suspicion hits 8 it stops accelerating and generates eight cells per action. In practice you have around 10 to 11 suspicion increases per attempt before the bar becomes unworkable.

Resolving concern successfully costs two suspicion. Zones that look harmless are often what ends a run.

Concern, sensitivity and hesitation are soft failures

Hesitation blocks further action for an unknown period. Concern must be resolved, is likely to fail, and raises suspicion whether you succeed or not. Neither loses you the target outright.

Landing on a fail cell is an instant crit

Standard penalties apply and the target is removed, but there are no additional consequences beyond that.

Alpha Mail: reach CS 100

Grind responses rather than farming or spamming, since responses give the best skill per nerve.

Decepticon: hit temptation, sensitivity, hesitation and concern in one successful scam

Only the CS 60 and CS 80 scams tend to have all four hazard types present. Reaching CS 60 and getting a favourable bar layout is most of the battle.

Avoid landing on the same hazard twice, and if you fail to resolve concern more than three times, suspicion will almost certainly end the run before you finish.

Build to 10,000 addresses, then stop farming

Farming is the worst skill per nerve in the crime. Get a working base, complete the Computer Science courses, and let the Phisher and Scraper carry you from there.

Send spam waves constantly, rotating categories

They cannot fail and they pay double a response in skill. Rotating avoids diminishment, and spacing them out avoids target exhaustion.

Grind responses for skill, abandon for money

If you want levels, work every mark you get. If you want money, abandon anything below Professional on the high-tier scams and wait for an Affluent draw.

Push to 100,000 addresses before CS 40 scams

Tax, Job, Advance-fee and Investment will not generate responses on a small address pool no matter how many waves you send. Address count, not skill, is the real gate on the profitable scams.