this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist
#scam-watch 2024-10-27
- triumph_watch — nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply, still working it out 11:11
- triumph_watch — i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account, happy to be corrected the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a… 11:14
- triumph_watch — do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it, happy to be corrected 11:15
- relabel_watch — unrelated but we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted 12:03
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply, still working it out
i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account, happy to be corrected
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it, happy to be corrected
they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
unrelated but we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
read it character by character
anyone recognise this pattern, a discount that expires in an hour