Digest for the week of 2024-12-05 has been published.
#scam-watch 2025-04-15
Tuesday28 messages5 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- non_scale_win — impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money 19:10
- oasis_ola — is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake 19:29
- oasis_ola — i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account 20:17
- net_peptide — they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear" 20:39
anyone recognise this pattern, a discount that expires in an hour
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
what is the actual advice, just do not engage
do not engage
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thats retail not fraud
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we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
no escrow here
impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money
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thats the pattern
is it worth reporting or does nothing happen
is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
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how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
thats forged
report it
the reply came from a different address than the one i wrote to, is that normal
unrelated but got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
group buy organiser has gone quiet after 14 days, what do people do
i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
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do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves
they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
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if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can, someone check my working
redacting that
somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell
added to the watchlist
the watchlist is pinned and maintained. add anything you find with a screenshot
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over