[🧩] I Almost Got Hit by an External-Channel Scam on Karrot Market Just Now. Please Watch Out for Scams Too.

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Just now, I almost got hit by an external-channel scam on Karrot Market. Well, honestly, I knew from the start it was obviously a scam because they were trying to lure me to an outside site.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223884158153
• Naver published at: 2025/05/31 16:59 KST
• Original category: Daily Life

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Just now, I almost got hit by an external-channel scam on Karrot Market.

Well, honestly, I knew from the start it was obviously a scam because they were trying to lure me to an outside site.

But, I mean, doesn’t this look exactly like blog-post material? So I decided to play along a little.

Posting material is rolling in for free like this? Love it! lolol

But then…

Wow… the site quality and overall completeness were so high that I blanked out for about ten seconds.

Uh…? Is this real?

For those ten seconds, I genuinely almost mistook it for a real secondhand trading site.

Even though I clearly knew it was a scam, the quality was good enough to almost make me slip, and I kept being impressed.

Still, the weird, uneasy deja vu I felt from the very first chat stayed there.

No matter how I looked at it, it was a scam site. I do not know exactly why, but my gut said so.

I wanted to see what they would do, so I signed up with rough fake information and uploaded an item.

After I sent over the registered product link, not even a minute passed before a message came saying the transaction was completed.

Sure enough, the money had been charged!

Now we had entered the scam pattern that was completely predictable.

Obviously, if I tried to withdraw, the withdrawal request would be canceled.

Let’s see if my prediction is right.

lolololol

These people never go beyond prediction.

At least run the translation properly… What is “customer service is writing…” you idiots

Right. This is exactly the typical scam pattern.

Stock scams, crypto room scams, shopping mall scams, … all of them use fake sites like this to lure deposits, gently coax people in with something that looks plausible, squeeze out as much as possible, then block them or disappear. A vicious method.

I have seen several people around me lose tens of millions of won to scams like this, so my blood boiled a little. These rotten bastards.

The acting is something else.

I could hear the gears turning in their head from here, and I did not want to exchange even one more word with a scammer like this.

I immediately reported them for inducing external payment, and one second later the account got blocked.

But then, suddenly, I had this worry.

Wait? What if… this person might be a victim who believes this site is real?!

I hurriedly went into that person’s profile.

lololol of course not.

A fresh spam account made on May 27, 2025, with no transaction history lololol

Now it was certain. That is a scammer.

It was already a blocked account, but there was one thing worth praising. The response was very fast.

So I praised them. ^^

Damn scammer bastards…

I recommend that everyone also treat almost every case that induces payment through an external site as a scam and filter it out.

In my case, I grew up getting hit by all kinds of scams while playing online games from childhood, so when someone tries to scam online, I can see a bit of what intent they have and what method they are using.

Since I am also a developer very familiar with computers, I especially have a lot of ways to verify things.

But I thought people who have not really been scammed, people unfamiliar with computers, or older people could truly be helplessly taken in by scams like this.

What a scary and sad world…