screenshot it
#scam-watch 2026-04-14
Tuesday20 messages5 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
- LC_MS_Lena — is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake 13:31
- LC_MS_Lena — nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply 14:08
- first_month_fi — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby 17:19
no escrow here
while im here fraud means somebody set out to take your money or deceive you about what is in the vial. keep the words separate
a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over
got an unsolicited message offering a discount, is this a known thing
thats retail not fraud
report it
added to the watchlist
a bad batch is not a scam. an underfill is not a scam. slow support is not a scam
is a hyphenated version of a real domain always fake
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do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
impersonating a real supplier support desk is the pattern that has cost members the most money
how do you tell an impersonator from a genuinely bad support experience
pressure tactic
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply
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redacting that
this certificate has the same chromatogram as one from two years ago
update from 18 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake, still working it out
follow up i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that
an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby
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