advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
#scam-watch 2025-06-18
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- glow_no — update on the earlier thing report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case 19:10
- customs_owl — fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate 20:04
- taper_tess — sorry to jump in a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a… 20:07
thats the pattern
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i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves
pressure tactic
coming back after 26 months, is the watchlist still maintained
is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
update on the earlier thing report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
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a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version
this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate
sorry to jump in a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works, happy to be corrected