#scam-watch 2024-10-20

Sunday22 messages6 participantstimes are UTC

Highlights from this day

coa_or_cope — fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate 11:15
ring_size_down — a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam, ask me again in a month 11:58
protein_floor — report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case 12:40
protein_floor — a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not, n of 1 obviously 13:24
ring_size_down — someone claiming to be support for BCH contacted me first, real or not 13:36

redacting that

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thats forged

coming back after 22 months, is the watchlist still maintained

do not engage

fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate

ok so a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged, i could be wrong

a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam, ask me again in a month

a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear

we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted

read it character by character

group buy organiser has gone quiet after 11 days, what do people do

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read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works

report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case

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a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over

a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not, n of 1 obviously

is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam

someone claiming to be support for BCH contacted me first, real or not

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classic advance fee

i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that

this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago

i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account

is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch