pressure tactic
#scam-watch 2026-01-20
Tuesday48 messages11 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- halifax_hplc — coming back after 2 months, is the watchlist still maintained 21:19
- van_isle_vial — someone claiming to be support for JEEP contacted me first, real or not 21:48
- impersonator_ip — they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear" i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account 22:33
- impersonator_ip — a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not 23:00
- impersonator_ip — a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged 23:09
what is the actual advice, just do not engage
this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago
read it character by character
📉1⚠️1
update from 12 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
is an underfilled vial fraud or a bad batch
thats the pattern
this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist
Reminder for dose_day_drift: dose day is today. Set 4 days ago.
read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
certificate looks recycled from another lot, second opinion
somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail
screenshot it
relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
anyone recognise this pattern, a discount that expires in an hour
fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate
sorry to jump in the watchlist is pinned and maintained. add anything you find with a screenshot
coming back after 2 months, is the watchlist still maintained
💀17✅11⚠️3
while im here thats a bad batch not fraud
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
the reply came from a different address than the one i wrote to, is that normal
quick one how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
how do you check a domain is the real one without clicking it
update on the earlier thing the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version
sorry to jump in i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
thats forged
someone claiming to be support for JEEP contacted me first, real or not
advance payment for a "reservation", has anyone seen this pattern
no escrow here
✅3📈5
added to the watchlist
somebody is using the room name to sell things, who do i tell
thats retail not fraud
22:15ferrous_ash pinned a message to this channel
no names please
got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
ok so i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
for the archive is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam
they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
medutest-report-a-2601.pdf
3 pages · 128 KB · not retained in the public archive
redacting that
we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
report it
group buy organiser has gone quiet after 24 days, what do people do
do not engage
a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not
✅1😂17
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
😂16👀3💀15