Fortnightly digest · 2024-10-07 → 2024-10-20
one letter different, and three people nearly paid for it
The scam-watch channel earned its existence this fortnight. Three separate members were within a payment of sending money to a domain that differed from a real supplier by a single hyphen. The channel response was practical rather than outraged: read the address character by character, and remember that the impersonator is not the company being impersonated.
1.5Kmessages
71day logs
3channels noted
5notes
What happened
- A lookalike domain imitating Bachem Holding was circulating with a copied certificate and a real lot number lifted from a public report.
- The forged document was caught because the same chromatogram appeared under two different lot numbers three months apart.
- Members were reminded that nobody legitimate makes unsolicited contact offering a discount, and that the correct response is a report rather than a reply.
- typosquat_tay started the watchlist that has been maintained ever since, currently longer than anybody would like.
- A wrong-address payment from earlier in the month was discussed as the unrecoverable event it is, with no comfort offered because none exists.
Channels this fortnight
#scam-watchLookalike domains, fake COAs, unsolicited sales contact. Report, do not engage.4 logs · 101 msgs#paymentsConfirmations, networks, address checks. The room holds no money.1 logs · 9 msgs#vendor-verificationThe verification log. What counts as evidence and what does not.1 logs · 11 msgs
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Pulled from the logs, not hand-picked. Each links to the exact message.
bea_reconstitutesireland runs its own reimbursement system and as best i understood it a year ago the picture there was less generous than people…47 reactions · #uk-ireland · 2024-10-13private_script_prigenuine question an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby, not…44 reactions · #scam-watch · 2024-10-19swirl_not_shakeupdate from 26 months ago: the flatness lifted, slowly, and i did not have to change anything to make it42 reactions · #mental-health · 2024-10-13tenpencebuying this is a completely different risk conversation from the licensed compounds and that gets said too rarely41 reactions · #retatrutide · 2024-10-16still_here_202412 did nothing extra over 10 for me and that still holds a year later36 reactions · #tirzepatide · 2024-10-16monoisotopicfollow up 96.8 against a certificate of 98.6 is fine. the same supplier landing low four times in a row is a question34 reactions · #test-results · 2024-10-14slow.tapercoming back after 17 months, is the nhs picture any better32 reactions · #uk-ireland · 2024-10-13dose_day_drifthow many weeks at 7.5 before you knew it was enough31 reactions · #tirzepatide · 2024-10-13
Busiest logs in this fortnight
#side-effects · 2024-10-20let the swab dry48 msgs#retatrutide · 2024-10-19there is no long term safety data, phase 2 and an ongoing phase 3 programme is what exists, thats one data…44 msgs#side-effects · 2024-10-15does eating before or after the injection make any difference43 msgs#side-effects · 2024-10-17right so dropping back a rung for a fortnight is a completely legitimate move, i could be wrong43 msgs#semaglutide · 2024-10-13£38 a month for compounded against what brand costs locally is why most people here use vials42 msgs#tirzepatide · 2024-10-13there is no clean conversion between the two, anyone giving you a ratio is guessing41 msgs#semaglutide · 2024-10-072.4 is the ceiling39 msgs#semaglutide · 2024-10-08my dose day drifted from friday to sunday, does that reset anything changed my mind on the four week rule,…39 msgs#wins · 2024-10-13i keep a pair of jeans from 2015 in the wardrobe as a measuring device and it is the only measurement i…39 msgs#retatrutide · 2024-10-16anyone stayed at 12 for months rather than climbing38 msgs#tirzepatide · 2024-10-10plateaued at 26 weeks the same way i did on semaglutide, so i doubt its compound specific, thats one data…37 msgs#scam-watch · 2024-10-13quick one the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version35 msgs