advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
#scam-watch 2025-03-05
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Highlights from this day
- week_three_wall — they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear" 21:42
- wrong_network — i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that 21:50
- cold_pack_carla — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby 21:59
- wrong_network — coming back after 18 months, is the watchlist still maintained do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it 23:02
screenshot it
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
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thats the pattern
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i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
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thats retail not fraud
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
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thats a bad batch not fraud
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no names please
report it
anyone recognise this pattern, a discount that expires in an hour
a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
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is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
coming back after 18 months, is the watchlist still maintained
do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
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update from 2 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake, i have it written down somewhere
do not engage
read it character by character
the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version