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#scam-watch 2025-05-28
Wednesday35 messages9 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- pbs_pip — group buy organiser has gone quiet after 17 days, what do people do 18:16
- pbs_pip — this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist 18:33
- spreadsheet_stu — do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it, thats one data point 18:48
- hiccup_hollis — a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam 21:21
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fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate
thats the pattern
thats forged
group buy organiser has gone quiet after 17 days, what do people do
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someone claiming to be support for SWB contacted me first, real or not
redacting that
is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist
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is it worth reporting or does nothing happen
how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it, thats one data point
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update from 21 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
coming back after 21 months, is the watchlist still maintained
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago
is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam
report it
[edited]the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version
right so got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
pressure tactic
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
*Medutest not the other one
thats a bad batch not fraud
while im here is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch
added to the watchlist
somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell
they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
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