SCAM Operator

• The privacy policy now shows the person responsible as “Alize.On.Me (Pixel Lusitano)”, with the same contact
• New APK (5.6.4) with the updated policy

• A new line at the end of the credits: “Identity isn't proving that you can do everything; it's having enough self-mastery to refuse even what you're allowed.”
• New achievement “Until the last line”: watch the credits to the end

• New contact email: contact@pixellusitano.com
• The email is the only text you can select, and tapping it copies it
• Privacy policy updated with the new contact

• The season podium is now checked automatically, without having to open the Season tab
• Community goal and syndicates protected against abuse
• Syndicate names always shown as plain text
• The privacy policy explains the community goal better

Friends

• Every phone has a friend code; add your friends' codes and see a leaderboard with just your runs and theirs

Seasonal leaderboard

• It restarts with every event; whoever finishes on the podium gets a notification and an achievement

Syndicates

• Up to 10 members add up their calls for the week: bronze, silver and gold give scratch tickets to everyone

Community goal

• All players together have a weekly call goal; if it is reached, everyone gets a scratch ticket

Tidier settings

• “Privacy and my data” and “About the game” in one place, Comfort split into sections and a button to delete your online data

• 6 new achievements

• Urgent fix: completing a seasonal event broke your money (it showed €∞). It no longer happens, and anyone affected gets back the money and the reward they missed

Police and rivals

• Live raids, trials with the right defence for each piece of evidence, and car chases
• Hardcore: on the 3rd bust you go to prison and get one attempt at a prison break
• Marta's TV reports, a mole in your team and a private detective on your trail
• Rival wars and dark web reputation

Team and economy

• Your team has names, levels and traits, and runs operations even while the game is closed
• Prestige shop, loan shark, office pets, trophy wall and luxury goods

Mini-games and modes

• Spot the differences, piece laundering, poker with the rival boss and the rushed script
• Daily challenge, zen mode and “The other side” (you are the victim)

Also

• Victim schedules (your phone's clock counts), data leaks and an office by day and by night
• The creator is now called Alize.On.Me
• 30 new achievements, all with a medal

New pixel art

• Victims' faces change during the call (calm, suspicious and angry)
• New faces for relatives, local victims, absurd clients and the victims of chapters VI and VII
• Drawings for the new stages and items, 31 new medals, and backdrops for the Metaverse and the Cloud

Story

• Illustrated scenes in the opening, the Boss prequel, Inspector Ferraz's investigation and the new endings
• Parchment certificates with a seal

• New seasonal icons in the app, and credits with the testers: DaewonPT, Padesko, Hoodz and Glxckx

Calls

• 8-bit voices: every victim talks in beeps in their own pitch
• Conversations by text message, social media and messaging apps, with “typing…”
• Black Book victims who pick up again, tactic combos and two calls at once
• A summary at the end of every call: when the victim got suspicious and why

Scams

• In each stage you choose between the classic scam and an alternative one (Hi Mum, MB Way, fake courier, fake tickets…), each with its own real red flag

Story

• Giving a victim their money back, or not, changes the story
• The secret ending also unlocks if you go your whole career without a single bust

Education

• Training with 30 questions and a “Scam Detector” certificate
• School mode: no casino, no scratch tickets and no online leaderboard

• 12 new achievements

After the Moon

• Two new jurisdictions: the Metaverse and the Cloud
• Chapter VI “Digital Age” and chapter VII “AI Age” (cloned voice, fake video call, robot romance…), with 8 new stages and a real red flag in each one

Livelier calls

• The victim reacts during the call: calm, suspicious, angry or giving in
• Relatives who grab the phone halfway through
• Local victims in each jurisdiction and 8 more absurd clients

Story

• The Boss prequel, Inspector Ferraz's investigation and two new endings in the Cloud (one of them secret)
• A career certificate with your name, your ending and your stats

• 16 new achievements

Presentation

• A Windows 95-style boot: fake BIOS, studio logo and a “SCAM OS 95” screen
• An opening scene in your first game, chapter cards, a plane trip between jurisdictions and end credits
• A screen saver and an “It's now safe to turn off your computer” screen when you quit

Player safety

• A notice on first launch: the game is satire and never asks for your real data
• Saved games are checked and backed up automatically
• “Privacy and my data”: see what stays on your phone and what leaves it, and delete it if you want
• A privacy policy inside the game, no internet needed
• The casino can be locked with a PIN, plus an optional break reminder

Easier

• A guided tutorial in the first few minutes
• Colour-blind colours
• Search and filter achievements

Behind the scenes

• Leaderboard with validation and a filter for offensive names, and a better-protected app

Automatic updates

• The app looks for the new version of the game by itself and gets it ready without stopping the game
• Every version is checked with a digital signature, and your saved games stay as they are

Seasonal events

• Halloween, Black Friday and Christmas, every year, with decorations, news and themed calls
• Rewards: scratch tickets, an exclusive theme and an achievement

Window themes

• Classic or night Windows 95, plus unlockables: Windows 98, Hacker terminal and Vaporwave, as well as the event themes

Cleaner settings

• General, Sound, Comfort and Saved games tabs, with new switches and volume sliders

• Optional notifications in the Android app (all off by default)
• Optional anonymous statistics, off by default and with nothing that identifies you
• Lighter: the game file went from 5.5 MB to 1.5 MB and opens faster

Pixel art across the whole game

• Over 470 new drawings in place of the emojis: stages, shop, team, homes, fashion, businesses, investments, coins, achievements, keepsakes and talents
• The office changes with the stage (from the garage to the orbital station), with the operator at work and the team walking past
• New icons and a new logo

Calls and characters

• Every victim has a face, and so do the special calls and the absurd clients
• The Boss, Cousin Joe, Inspector Ferraz, Marta, Officer Upright and Jorge appear in the conversations
• Live calls have a broadcast frame

Casino

• Blackjack with illustrated cards, a spinning roulette wheel and a slot machine, with croupiers

Scenes

• Scenes for the escape, the ending on the Moon, the police bust and the mini-games
• New effects: confetti when you move up a stage, jackpot, siren and an explosion in the crash

More convenient

• Keep your finger on the button to keep buying
• You can switch off the images and go back to the emojis (lighter on older phones)
• New icon and splash screen in the Android app

• The news ticker, the fake pop-ups, the blue screen and the crises no longer appear on top of the main menu
• Repeated or mixed-up achievement names fixed
• The Android Back button first closes the open window and, when you quit, the game saves before closing
• Orientation of your choice: automatic, portrait or landscape
• Daily reminder: shows when the next one is due, a button to test it and a shortcut to the app's settings
• New trophy: the Golden Barcelos Rooster, for completing all 36 keepsakes

Pacing

• A run lasts about 45 min on Normal, 20 min on Easy and 45 min on Hardcore
• Later escapes are longer than the first one, with more stages and more passports

Stages and progression

• 20 stages in 5 chapters, with scams ordered by scale and a stage map
• Escape plan: shows what the next escape unlocks
• 12 homes and 10 status levels
• Gear milestones: 10, 25 and 50 units give +25%, +50% and +100% to that item

Police and calls

• A gentler attention curve and new ways to lower it: lie low, shred evidence, change hideout, media distraction, informant at the station and firewall
• After a bust you are under surveillance for 3 min
• Victims get more suspicious with every chapter
• 8 branching special calls, each with its own real red flag
• New crises: tax audit, data leak, rival hacker and intercepted mules

Clean money

• Your lifestyle can only be paid for with clean money
• Services (lawyer, accountant, PR, foundation, firewall, insurance…) and investments (real estate, fund, stock market, art and gold)
• Front businesses now bring in clean profit; crypto mixer and cold vault

Casino and crypto

• A casino with blackjack, roulette and slots with a progressive jackpot, chips and VIP levels
• A crypto exchange with 5 assets, market regimes and news

More

• Talent tree, rival syndicates and a satirical news ticker
• Hidden synergies and collectibles (including the Golden Barcelos Rooster)
• Black Book with your victims' history and a run summary
• On-screen events (fake pop-ups, viruses, blue screen) and 3 mini-games: connect the cables, build the script and choose the victim
• Combos and Scammer Fury
• Chat with colleagues, absurd clients and easter eggs
• Next goal bar, quick buy, vibration, text size, high contrast and reduce animations
• Weekly missions, a weekly leaderboard and game export and import
• 44 new achievements (91 in total)

• New game in 2 steps: first the difficulty (Easy, Normal or Hardcore), then the slot; if the slot already holds a game, you are asked before it is replaced
• Easy mode 🪶: +50% earnings, police attention rises more slowly, busts cost less and bribes fail less often (a run of about 30 minutes)
• Hardcore 💀 on the global leaderboard, but only if you win the run
• On the leaderboard, your name gets 🪶 in Easy mode and 💀 in Hardcore
• 8 new achievements for Easy and Hardcore
• Daily reward reminder (Android app): an optional notification at the time you choose
• You can no longer select text in the game (only in the operator name field)
• Crypto: the coin's name now sits right next to “Coin”, for example “MemeCoin”
• Privacy policy in 7 languages, opened in the language you are playing in

• Quieter music: the music and sound effects volumes have 10 steps and show the value (for example 3/10)
• Default: music 3/10 and sound effects 5/10
• Shady contacts: the 3 perks now have 5 levels
• Corrupt hotline: a successful bribe lowers attention by 30 to 50 points
• Refined social engineering: the wait between calls goes from -25% to as much as -45%
• Optimised laundromat: laundering goes from +25% to as much as +45%
• Anyone who already had perks keeps their levels

• Chiptune mix: new background music with 14 copyright-free tracks, smooth fades between tracks and an endless loop
• Settings with General and Sound tabs: choose between the Chiptune mix and the basic 8-bit music, with separate volumes for music and effects
• Scambaiter: a padlock and a countdown on the button during the 25 s of the virus
• Trace cleaner capped at 154 units, with the excess refunded
• Operator name limited to 13 characters
• Music credits on the About screen

• Offline earnings: with the game closed, the company earns 50% of the normal rate, for up to 2 hours
• Daily reward with a 7-day streak
• 3 missions a day
• Dark web scratch ticket
• Scam album with permanent bonuses
• Anti-scam training (up to +10% earnings)
• Subordinates from stage 4: operator, mule and lawyer
• Hardcore mode: 3 busts and it's over, score x1.5
• Corrupt hotline with 5 levels
• Background music in an endless loop, with no more pops in the sound
• Info button (i) for the long descriptions

• Scambaiter: from stage 5, some calls come from a vigilante; you can hang up in time or risk a counter-attack (losing dirty money or a 25 s virus with no clicking); if you fool them, the payout is doubled
• Pump and Rug pull in crypto: a campaign makes the coin rise 2 times and then fall; the rug pull sells everything for x2 (x3 during a campaign), but brings a crisis with the regulators
• Shady contacts: each new jurisdiction gives 1 contact for permanent perks (Corrupt hotline, Refined social engineering and Optimised laundromat)

• First Android APK successfully built (with v4.1)
• Crypto with deposits: you choose how much to put into each coin, and gains and losses are percentages (up to 75% per move) of the amount deposited only
• Deposit limit per coin: €1,000 at stage 3, €10,000 at stage 6, €100,000 at stage 9, and so on
• Crises with 3 answers (good, bad and neutral) and a short story at the end
• The news is now called Global Trust News and shows up less often
• 100% guaranteed bribe windows in the news: 30 s every 15 min of play and 60 s every 30 min
• A successful bribe lowers attention by 25
• Victims' answers change depending on the stage
• Rewards: 50 clicks give €150, “First warning” gives double clicks for 60 s and “Incorruptible Cop” gives €500
• New “About & privacy” screen, with a link to the privacy policy

• Crypto: a new tab from stage 3, with a chart that changes every 30 s and up to 5 coins created with Master Hodl, who shows the real red flag behind each choice
• 6 new achievements (2 secret), 39 in total
• Front businesses with x1, x10 and MAX buying
• Bribes with no visible counter, riskier and lowering attention less; a fine of 25% of your balance if they fail
• VPN capped (-40% attention at most) and trace cleaner capped at 1 s
• External AI removed (only the tactics mini-game remains)
• “Erase all game data” button in Settings
• More stable sound

• Global leaderboard between players (top 200)
• An option not to send scores, and a notice that the leaderboard is public

• 20 stages and 42 items (from “Digital Cupid” to “Orbital Empire”)
• 6 jurisdictions: Portugal, Panama, the Cayman Islands, the Seychelles, Monaco and the Moon
• A story with 33 scenes and 6 characters, plus the Diary
• Calls as a tactics mini-game: every victim has weak and strong points
• End screen with time, escapes, a satirical line and a local leaderboard
• 9 new achievements (33 in total, 4 secret)
• New music with 10 modes that evolves with the stage and the jurisdiction
• A shop that hides old items, and big numbers abbreviated in each language
• Old saved games are still compatible

• Hold to click from stage 2
• Achievements with rewards (+10%, +50%, +100% or temporary bonuses)
• “Rush hour” news
• Rebalanced economy: prices +5%, gear and lifestyle bonuses -35%, VPN -8% per unit
• Bribes now cost 25% of your clean money, and abusing them has consequences
• Fleeing a jurisdiction requires €500,000 in cash
• Playing to the end went from between 1 and 18 minutes to between 45 minutes and 2 h 40

• The game is now called SCAM Operator, with a new logo and background
• Tabs adjusted for small screens

• Crises spaced further apart: none before stage 2 or in the first 2 minutes, and at least 45 s between two

• Fix: the “Activate VPN” crisis option becomes “Keep talking” in all 7 languages

• 7 fully translated languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German and Russian
• Numbers formatted in each language's style, and titles translated again when you change language

• Language choice at startup, and the Boss asks for the operator's name
• 3 save slots, Settings, the Space bar to click and a CRT effect
• Bribes available when attention is above 85%
• Free chat with AI (with your own Gemini key)
• Texts and tips 40 to 46% shorter; fewer news items and crises

• 10 stages and 22 items, home and fashion with 6 levels and x1, x10 and MAX buying
• 24 achievements (3 secret), 8-bit music, a pixel art scene and chat with the victim
• Front businesses (dirty and clean money, taxes), news and random crises
• “Change jurisdiction” with passports (+5% each) and two endings
• 7-language selector

• Prototype in Portuguese with 5 stages, 11 items and the Work, Gear and Lifestyle tabs
• Police attention at 100% means getting caught