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#scam-watch 2025-07-08

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  • u100_pat — unrelated but somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail 14:16
  • no_escrow_nate — the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow… 16:07
  • monoisotopic — this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago 17:29

thats forged

how do you check a domain is the real one without clicking it

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NE

the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves

TS

nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply

U1

unrelated but somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail

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U1

somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell

transit-times.csv
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NE

update from 9 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake

do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it, happy to be corrected

NE

how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience

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classic advance fee

the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam

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MO

this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago

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