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#scam-watch 2025-05-26
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Highlights from this day
- pharmac_pen — coming back after 12 months, is the watchlist still maintained 19:00
- pharmac_pen — tracking number does not resolve on any carrier, is that a fake 19:25
- lisbon_lot — nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped… 19:27
- typosquat_tay — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby 19:54
- typosquat_tay — impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money 21:10
follow up what is the actual advice, just do not engage
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
read it character by character
coming back after 12 months, is the watchlist still maintained
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is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch
tracking number does not resolve on any carrier, is that a fake
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nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
how do you check a domain is the real one without clicking it
somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell
pressure tactic
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do not engage
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
group buy organiser has gone quiet after 15 days, what do people do
report it
impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money
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