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I tap Home and open a blank doc beside the forum. Then I start copying.

I document every anomaly.

user_dusk_warden_07 >> Grey ore, 5,000 gold per stack. East gate pickup.

user_sentinel_pathfinder_22 >> 5,000 sent. East gate cleared.

user_oracle_courier_19 >> Twenty iron ingots. 8,500 gold. East gate when ready.

Five thousand for grey ore worth less than fifty.

Eighty-five hundred for iron ingots that any starting-zone vendor sells for pocket change.

Profiles next.

Dusk_warden_07 existed for three days.

Sentinel_pathfinder_22, two.

Oracle_courier_19, three.

My knee starts bouncing.

Three accounts. Created within a day of each other. Gone within days of each other.

I pull up another cluster of trade threads.

user_ember_district_runner_22 >> Sourcing obsidian shards. 12,000 gold per stack. Waterfront depot.

There is no waterfront depot. And nobody pays twelve thousand gold for obsidian shards.

I open the profile.

Three days old.

Safehouse_keeper_22 joined at the same time.

I check their post histories.

They only talk to each other.

user_safehouse_keeper_22 >> Three stacks ready. 36,000. Waterfront depot.

Thirty-six thousand.

My fingers move faster.

Different usernames. Same pattern.

Short-lived accounts. Tight loops. The posts resemble normal resource sourcing, item listings, and vendor ratings, but the prices are insane, the locations don’t exist, and the math always works.

I open a third window and start a spreadsheet.

The first cluster gets red. The second blue. A third gets green when I find it buried under Outland Exchange.

user_blackmarket_spy_23 >> Six shadowglass. 18,000 gold. Hollow Market.

user_shadow_runner_23 >> 18,000 sent. Hollow Market clear.