[Pattern] the fake-testing-service scam is getting better and that worries me
Posting this as a discussion rather than a claim: the fake-testing-service scam is getting better and that worries me. The directory deliberately separates "we have nothing on this name" from "this went badly". Collapsing the two is how boards like this generate false certainty. A report is useful here when it…
Yes. The thin-evidence names in the directory are thin because nobody has anything on them, which is a different statement from a warning.
Not convinced. A payment window that closed is a payment window, not evidence of intent.
What did the storefront say the lead time was?
Right, and the group-buy structure is the underrated risk here. One person holds everything and there is no recourse designed in.
Yes — describe the sequence of events with dates. That is a report. Adjectives are not.
a domain registered last month with a decade of testimonials is the whole tell
if the price is impossible, the material is the thing being economised on