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> “At first, we suspected that it was a scam, until we Googled the guy’s name.”

What does this even mean? "This guy sure is trying to import a lot of data. Clearly he's trying to scam us."

What's strange about it ? Any unusual behavior can be suspect. Also "suspected" implies possibility, pretty much the opposite of "clearly".

Agreed. We were just surprised, since our highest user at that point only had 85 vouchers (It's 149 now), then this guy comes around with thousands. We thought it was a fake account, but it turned out to be a real user.

While I understand that it's suspicious - as in, out of the norm - but what kind of a scam would it have been?

LOL - "scam" is probably the wrong word to use. More like a "prank" or some sort of DOS.

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