no names please
#scam-watch 2025-11-25
Tuesday19 messages8 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- sharps_bin_sid — fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate, ask me again in a month 13:50
- sharps_bin_sid — advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern 14:02
- sharps_bin_sid — got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing 14:47
- VialBot — Digest for the week of 2025-05-29 has been published. 15:42
- verify_or_dont — i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that, i have it written down somewhere the watchlist is pinned and… 16:00
fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate, ask me again in a month
advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
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a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
report it
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got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
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the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves
do not engage
is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch
thats a bad batch not fraud
update from 21 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
Digest for the week of 2025-05-29 has been published.
screenshot it
this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that, i have it written down somewhere
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
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime, thats just me