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#scam-watch 2026-04-11

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Highlights from this day
  • nhs_pathway_nell — a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to… 12:33
  • ari_arrives — impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money 12:40
  • ari_arrives — update from 19 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake, for what its worth 12:45
  • cross_border_cam — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby 12:56
  • cross_border_cam — read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works 13:02

a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that

CB

relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime

NP

nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply

AA

impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money

update from 19 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake, for what its worth

CB

an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby

CB

read the domain character by character. that is the entire defence and it works

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CB

the watchlist is pinned and maintained. add anything you find with a screenshot, from memory

the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves

this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago

AA

tracking number does not resolve on any carrier, is that a fake