how do you check a domain is the real one without clicking it
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#scam-watch 2025-10-31
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Highlights from this day
- vacuum_vic — if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can 19:50
- vacuum_vic — slightly off topic but a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam 20:15
- sgp_subq — the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves, i have it written down somewhere 22:06
- sgp_subq — relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime 22:10
a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not
[edited]a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch
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impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money
for the archive coming back after 26 months, is the watchlist still maintained
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
unrelated but do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
pressure tactic
advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
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if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
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got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
the reply came from a different address than the one i wrote to, is that normal
this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist
slightly off topic but a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
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i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
follow up is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam
thats a bad batch not fraud
classic advance fee
somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell
this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago
somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail
no names please
someone claiming to be support for Homopeptide contacted me first, real or not
anyone recognise this pattern, a discount that expires in an hour
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
update from 3 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
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the watchlist is pinned and maintained. add anything you find with a screenshot
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version
fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate
a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves, i have it written down somewhere
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thats forged
relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
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tracking number does not resolve on any carrier, is that a fake
update from 8 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
thats retail not fraud
read it character by character