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#scam-watch 2026-04-29

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Highlights from this day
  • customs_owl — sorry to jump in certificate looks recycled from another lot, second opinion 12:09
  • customs_owl — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby, your mileage will differ 12:14
  • mg_per_ml — coming back to this the room holds no money and runs no escrow. anybody offering to is speaking for themselves 14:10
  • customs_owl — quick one update from 20 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake 14:32
CO

sorry to jump in certificate looks recycled from another lot, second opinion

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i was wrong to call something a scam in 2024 and it was a fill problem. i try to remember that

a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is

an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby, your mileage will differ

CH

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

CH

the reply came from a different address than the one i wrote to, is that normal

CO

a fake tracking number that resolves on no carrier at all is conclusive. one that resolves and stalls is not

MP

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

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

quick one update from 20 months ago: the domain from that report is still live and still fake

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no escrow here

MP

a chromatogram that appears on two different lots is forged. not sloppy, forged, someone check my working

the lookalike domains almost always differ by one doubled letter, a swapped letter, or an added hyphen