relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate
#scam-watch 2026-05-13
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Highlights from this day
- food_noise_off — relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what… 18:28
- two_eight_c — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby 18:31
- dublin_dose — a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear, ill dig out the number 19:35
- lead_time_lars — the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen 20:14
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
no escrow here
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case, from memory
added to the watchlist
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a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear, ill dig out the number
coming back after 23 months, is the watchlist still maintained
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
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*Janoshik not the other one
read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works
is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam
we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
do not engage
impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money