A large share of losses come from sites and contacts pretending to be a seller people already trust. These are the patterns to check before any money moves.
Clone sites
- The address is close but not the same: an extra word, a different ending, a hyphen. Compare it letter by letter with the address on the vendor’s review page.
- The design is copied from a known brand, including its lab reports, but the contact details differ.
- Prices sit far below every other listing. Check the compound’s price guide to see the normal range.
Impersonators
- Someone messages you first, claiming to be a vendor’s representative, after you posted a question.
- The contact name matches a known rep but the account, number or address is new. Confirm through the channel the vendor publishes on its own site.
- Urgency: a sale that ends in an hour, a “last box”, a payment address that changed today.
Lab reports used as bait
- A report issued to a different company, or one the lab has no record of. How to verify a COA shows the check.
- The same report reused for several products or batches.
Payment
- Irreversible payment only, to a personal account.
- A request to mark a payment as a gift or to leave the memo blank.
If it happened to you
Post an alert on this board following the pinned guide, and file a verified scam report so it shows on the vendor’s page. Stick to what you can show: dates, amounts, screenshots with personal details removed.
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