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#scam-watch 2025-08-21

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Highlights from this day
  • wrong_network — i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account 18:57
  • turnaround_tam — read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam 18:58
  • turnaround_tam — fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate 19:27
  • cricket_or_footy — this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can 21:57
WN

i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account

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TT

read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam

relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime

do not engage

coming back after 8 months, is the watchlist still maintained

advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern

a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam

fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate

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CO

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

WN

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

WN

the watchlist is pinned and maintained. add anything you find with a screenshot

i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that

WN

do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it

report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case

if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can

CO

this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can