how much of what we believe about scam actually comes from fake COA threads
Slightly embarrassed to be asking this, but: how much of what we believe about scam actually comes from fake COA threads. Now I buy small from anyone new, test it, and only then commit. It has cost me a few small orders and saved me one large one. The group-buy structure, described neutrally, because the arguments…
no batch number, no date, no method — that is the pattern, not one detail
Domain age, registrar and certificate issuance date are all public and take about a minute to check. A site claiming years of history on a months-old domain is the cheapest signal available.
Domain age, registrar and certificate issuance date are all public and take about a minute to check.
Adding the practical version: buy small from anyone new, test it, then decide.
a domain registered last month with a decade of testimonials is the whole tell
Domain age, registrar and certificate issuance date are all public and take about a minute to check.
This is the check that catches most of it, and it takes under a minute.
the pattern repeats because it works, not because people are stupid
no names without evidence, that is the sidebar rule and it is a good one
Never name an individual. The sidebar rule exists because the cost of being wrong falls on a person and the benefit of being right falls on nobody in particular.
group buys concentrate risk in one person and nobody plans for that