the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves, we shall see
#scam-watch 2025-03-26
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Highlights from this day
- knees_first — if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can 20:21
- taper_tess — somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell 20:45
- apob_over_ldl — i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the… 21:27
thats the pattern
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a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
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right so a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not, take that with a pinch of salt
*that should say weekly
classic advance fee
somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell
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got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
added to the watchlist
redacting that
update on the earlier thing advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby