is it worth reporting or does nothing happen
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#scam-watch 2026-05-16
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Highlights from this day
- noct.titrate — all six are fakes. none of them is the real company and none of the real companies has anything to do with them 20:02
- tarpit_tam — a change in payment method is the single loudest alarm in this whole space. the site can be a pixel-perfect clone and the payment page still gives it away 20:28
- VialBot — scam-watch list updated: +6 lookalike domains, 41 total on the watchlist, 0 removed. list is advisory and never a claim about the real companies with similar names 21:02
- marrow.mod — that sentence goes in the channel notes verbatim 21:55
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case
thats the pattern
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no escrow here
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an anonymous group buy organiser holding other peoples money is the highest risk arrangement in this hobby, happy to be corrected
added to the watchlist
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relabelling and marking up is retail, not fraud. it is a risk profile question, not a crime
redacting that
the watchlist is pinned and maintained. add anything you find with a screenshot, n of 1 obviously
do not engage. do not negotiate. do not send a test payment. screenshot and post it
screenshot it
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what is the actual advice, just do not engage
somebody is relabelling and marking up, is that a scam or just retail
19:55topic set to: near-miss domain sweep — post finds, do not visit them
did the quarterly sweep. six new lookalikes, four of them registered in the last eight weeks
all six are fakes. none of them is the real company and none of the real companies has anything to do with them
| Real domain | Lookalike seen | Trick used | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| jeepbio.com | jeeppbio.com | doubled letter | 2026-06 |
| jeepbio.com | jeep-bio.co | hyphen + short TLD | 2026-07 |
| wuxitides.net | wuxi-tides.co | hyphen + short TLD | 2026-05 |
| chinesepeptidecompany.net | chinesepeptidecompany.co | TLD swap | 2026-07 |
| keruipeptides.com | keruipeptide.com | dropped plural | 2026-06 |
| shanghaisigmaaudley.com | shanghaisigma-audley.com | inserted hyphen | 2026-07 |
how do you even know which one is real
you check once, from the company's own paperwork or an invoice you already have, and then you bookmark it and never type it again
the dropped plural one is nasty. keruipeptide versus keruipeptides is a single character and your eye will not catch it
i nearly lost money to the doubled-letter one in june. it came up above the real site in a search ad
that is the main delivery route now. paid placement above the real result, on a mobile screen where the domain is truncated
so what happened
checkout wanted a bank transfer to a personal name, which is what stopped me. the real one has never asked me for that
a change in payment method is the single loudest alarm in this whole space. the site can be a pixel-perfect clone and the payment page still gives it away
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clone quality is genuinely high now. one of these has the real company's actual product photos and the real registered address in the footer
can the real companies not do something
some of them try. it is slow, it is jurisdictional, and by the time one is down two more exist
which is why the defence is on our side of the wire and not theirs
there is one for GL Biochem too, i saw it last month. a spelling with the hyphen and a city name bolted on
glbiochem-shanghai.net, yes, it is on the list. registered in march, no relationship to the actual company
and that one is particularly cynical because GL Biochem genuinely is a large Shanghai synthesis house, so the name reads plausible
scam-watch list updated: +6 lookalike domains, 41 total on the watchlist, 0 removed. list is advisory and never a claim about the real companies with similar names
41 is a lot
it grows every quarter and always will. this is a cost of the sector, not a crisis
the three rules, and they are the whole channel
1. bookmark the real domain once, navigate only from the bookmark
2. never reach a vendor from an email link or a search ad
3. if the payment instructions change, stop and ask in here
that is it. those three catch almost everything.i would add: if a site is under a year old and asks for a bank transfer to a personal name, you have your answer
how do i check a site age
registration date lookup, takes ten seconds. it is not proof of anything on its own, plenty of legitimate businesses are new
it is a weighting, not a verdict. that distinction matters in here
21:49three-rule domain hygiene note pinned
noted and bookmarked, literally
and to say the boring thing loudly: nothing on that list implicates JEEP, WuXi TIDES, Kerui, CPC, Sigma-Audley or GL Biochem. they are the ones being impersonated
that sentence goes in the channel notes verbatim
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