thats a bad batch not fraud
#scam-watch 2026-04-09
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Highlights from this day
- chaser_chris — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby 12:12
- vale_vials — somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail 12:15
- salt_bridge — we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted, still working it out 15:15
- vale_vials — the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves 15:58
- typosquat_tay — nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply 16:20
read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
added to the watchlist
slightly off topic but advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
classic advance fee
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
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do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it, n of 1 obviously
somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail
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what is the actual advice, just do not engage
certificate looks recycled from another lot, second opinion
how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
no names please
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a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
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update from 12 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
pressure tactic
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read it character by character
coming back to this a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted, still working it out
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a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear, thats one data point
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case, ask me again in a month
the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves
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do not engage
thats forged
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply
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a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not, thats one data point
*that should say weekly