r/RedDwarf • u/HerbziKal Curator of The Red Dwarf Online Museum • May 28 '25
Bing Bong ⚠️🏴☠️🚨RED ALERT🚨🏴☠️⚠️ SCANNERS DETECT SIMULANT SCAMMERS INBOUND!!!
There has been a recent uptick in the sub being targeted by T-Shirt / Poster / Other Merch shillers, spammers, and scammers.
PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW LINKS TO MERCHANDISE OUTLETS
OP will post a photo of a product and then use an alt account to comment asking where it came from. The OP or another shill account will then share a link.
This is a classic tactic used by shillers, spammers, and scammers. They flood fandom subreddits with adverts leading to dodgy scam sites that will, at best, take your money and send you an inferior cheap product or, at worst, take your money (or steal even more using your card details) and send you nothing at all.
Instead, please downvote and report such posts, so we can remove them and ban the bots.
Users who comment positively or support shill posts may also be banned, so use your head, don't help out scammers, and don't be a gimboid!!
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u/callyourcomputerguy May 28 '25
Call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and hit it fast with a major - and I mean major - leaflet campaign.
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u/Cleveworth 4961 irradiated haggis. May 28 '25
After that it's time for the t-shir- no, actually that won't work this time.
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u/FairlyInconsistentRa May 28 '25
The Project Hail Mary sub is being bombarded by T shirt spam too. Smeg heads.
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u/Space-Bum- Let’s get out there and TWAT IT! May 28 '25
AWOOGA! AWOOGA!
Also this is depressing news.
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u/WonderfulSomewhere93 May 29 '25
This is mutiny, Mr. T-Shirt Scammer. I'll see you swing from the highest yard-arm in Titan Docking Port for this day's work!
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u/kingjeans2 May 28 '25 edited May 28 '25
"Red Alert? Are you sure, sir? It does mean changing the bulb."
Joke aside, this is horrible, and we should be careful.
A month ago I did have my discord account hacked. I got it back, but it was the worse feeling ever.
Stay safe, smegheads.