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#scam-watch 2026-05-06

Wednesday13 messages5 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
  • bengaluru_bac — someone claiming to be support for MKM contacted me first, real or not 13:09
  • snac_and_water — an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby 13:15
  • VialBot — Reminder set. I will post here in 3 days. 13:20
  • bengaluru_bac — is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam 13:21
  • underfill_uma — for the archive a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is, n of 1 obviously 13:52
BB

someone claiming to be support for MKM contacted me first, real or not

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

BB

is a bad batch ever grounds for calling something a scam

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UU

report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case

MP

a reply from a different address than the one you wrote to is worth stopping over, happy to be corrected

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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, ymmv

UU

for the archive a discount that expires in an hour is a pressure tactic and it is the oldest one there is, n of 1 obviously

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