a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
#scam-watch 2025-11-10
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Highlights from this day
- freeze_thaw — i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that 00:44
- marrow.mod — we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted 00:57
- marrow.mod — impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money, i have it written down somewhere 01:31
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version
if you cannot tell an impersonator from bad support, treat it as an impersonator until you can
what is the actual advice, just do not engage
i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works
we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
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impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money, i have it written down somewhere
relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
thats forged
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