relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
#scam-watch 2026-02-02
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Highlights from this day
- deadspace — i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that 09:42
- deadspace — unrelated but a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged 10:48
- salt_bridge — impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money, still working it out a chromatogram that appears on two different lots… 12:01
- septum_sal — do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it 12:09
update from 3 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
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no names please
i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account, we shall see
unrelated but a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
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quick one a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
coming back to this a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not
no escrow here
a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
the watchlist is pinned and maintained. add anything you find with a screenshot
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply
we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money, still working it out
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over, ill dig out the number
the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
thats forged, from memory
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do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
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is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money
do not engage