You’d better be careful when shopping for Bambu Lab 3D printers.
Why? There are a number of fake sites ready to accept your cash and not provide you with the goods.
This is an old scam, but one I ran into this week was quite sophisticated. At the top you can see the home page of this fake site, which looks quite similar to the real Bambu Lab page. I will not be providing the URL of this site for obvious reasons.
The scam works as follows: you arrive at the site either from a phishing email link, or by simply mistyping “bambulab.com”. The fake site has an extra letter that might be accidentally typed, and if you’re not paying attention you’d suddenly find yourself looking at this site. You then buy a product and be forced to use PayPal to send your money to the scammer.
The site includes a number of features to encourage you to buy products, such as time-limited sales, or discounts as shown above. The price of the X1C listed above, US$619, is very low, but not so low as to make you feel it can’t be real. Saving money is a very powerful incentive.
That said, there are quite a few other things on the site that give it away as being fake. However, the folks that are new to 3D printing or are less technical might not notice them. They are the real targets of this particular scam.
What should you do? Well, don’t go to this site!
Instead you should always type in the correct name for the site, or search for it in your favorite search engine. If something looks too good to be true, it probably isn’t true.
