screenshot attached, address bar visible i have never seen a real supplier ask for payment to a personal account, check when the domain was registered
Thread · #scam-watch · 2025-07-28
a supplier who contacts you first, unprompted, is behaving
Spun off from a message in #scam-watch on 2025-07-28. 9 messages, 4 participants.
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- warsaw_vial — watch this one a supplier who contacts you first, unprompted, is behaving unlike every legitimate one in the directory, patterns not names 17:07
template again a copied product page is evidence of copying and nothing more. plenty of legitimate resellers copy pages, this is a quality issue, wrong channel
thats the pattern
unsolicited contact offering stock is the single most common opening in every case posted here
nobody legitimate contacts you unsolicited offering a discount. report it, do not reply, lifted from a real certificate probably
report it even if nothing happens. the pattern is the value, not the individual case, the real company will want to know
the operator wants a decision made quickly. every part of the approach is built to shorten your thinking time, patterns not names
patterns not names
[edited]if the payment method is unusual and the pressure is high, that is two of the three tells at once