i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account
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#scam-watch 2026-02-22
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- logrotate — i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account 14:47
- lisbon_lot — a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam 15:55
- orfor_watch — a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear 16:26
- bac_water_bill — a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is 16:28
- rotate_the_site — a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over 18:50
do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
this domain is one letter off the real one, adding it to the watchlist
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we do not name private individuals in this channel. that is why some lines here are redacted
the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves
no escrow here
thats retail not fraud
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certificate looks recycled from another lot, second opinion
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
sorry to jump in the careful version of this channel is worth ten times the angry version
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added to the watchlist
thats the pattern
is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
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read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works, not advice obviously
thats forged
a second payment because the first "did not clear" is the pattern. there is no first payment to clear
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a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is
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unrelated but the reply came from a different address than the one i wrote to, is that normal
somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail
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do not engage
report it
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ok so this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago
thats a bad batch not fraud
coming back to this update from 24 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake
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they asked for a second payment because the first one "did not clear"
is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged
[edited]relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
screenshot it
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
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