the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves
#scam-watch 2025-04-08
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- meniscus_mel — nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply 18:08
- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot C-4402. Nothing logged either way. 18:49
- group_buy_gwen — the reply came from a different address than the one i wrote to, is that normal 19:24
- group_buy_gwen — a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not 19:51
- sarcopenia_sam — i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account 20:07
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply
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a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
no escrow here
[edited]i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
[edited]Purity check: no report on file for lot C-4402. Nothing logged either way.
pressure tactic
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
unrelated but a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
the reply came from a different address than the one i wrote to, is that normal
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relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not
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update from 17 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
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is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
read it character by character