certificate looks recycled from another lot, second opinion
#scam-watch 2026-01-10
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Highlights from this day
- fake_tracking — nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply 19:32
- fake_tracking — they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear" 19:56
- coa_or_cope — while im here a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over 20:08
- hair_month_four — the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen, i have it written down somewhere 20:34
- kev_measures — someone claiming to be support for QSC contacted me first, real or not 21:43
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply
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sorry to jump in coming back after 1 months, is the watchlist still maintained
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
[edited]they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
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classic advance fee
ok so got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
while im here a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
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do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
thats retail not fraud
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
quick one a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
no escrow here
a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not
impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money
added to the watchlist
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen, i have it written down somewhere
do not engage
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
thats forged
transit-times.csv
142 rows · not retained in the public archive
screenshot it
someone claiming to be support for QSC contacted me first, real or not
update from 14 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
*VendorInvestigate not the other one
redacting that
thats the pattern
thats a bad batch not fraud
relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam, take that with a pinch of salt
coming back to this an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby