https://www.reddit.com/r/thewitcher3/comments/k03w75/how_to_spot_a_scam_seller/
created by [deleted] on 24/11/2020 at 12:13 UTC*
302 upvotes, 4 top-level comments (showing 4)
Lately, there's been an influx of scam posts in fandom subreddits. Usually they're selling t-shirts but as of today I have come across a new type of scam where they are selling art prints or posters or plates.
It'll be a picture of an art piece or a t shirt. Never people in the pictures.
you can recognise these by usually post title which goes like "I love this", "this is so pretty", "this is the best art I've ever seen", "I'm so glad I got this" and then there will be a link in The comments but it won't be a plain text link it will be a text which is linked, you know something like "I got this here" and you can click this text and it will lead you to a scam site. I mean most people will recognise this, most people will click this and think "this looks like scam" but just in case I want to make clear all these posts are scam.
What these posts will also have are comments by other bots that will say "this is amazing" or something like that and this comment is going to have lots of upvotes and the original post will have lots of upvotes too because it's like a bot network which is doing this and if you comment that this is scam you get a bunch of downvotes.
Comment by shadowdash66 at 24/11/2020 at 13:59 UTC
57 upvotes, 1 direct replies
i only order merch from CDPROJEKT even if the shipping costs are a lot i trust the quality
Comment by Kvohlu at 24/11/2020 at 13:54 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Thank you
Comment by ConDel666 at 24/11/2020 at 14:09 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Yeah, I noticed this in one of the Dark Souls subs. Somebody had posted a poster, and like you said, posted some sketchy link in the comments.
Comment by olachea1 at 29/01/2021 at 16:56 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I’ve also bought a 120 dollar jacket, and received nothing.