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The buyer in the report could not verify, received no server, and was refused a refund. This is the clearest case of identity as the binding constraint: the quota was available, the payment cleared, and the door closed at verification.","unit":"none","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not stated","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated","chaining":"It composes with nothing: the value of the record is that it marks a provider where a foreign buyer loses the payment rather than the order, so the next session does not spend a card authorisation to find out.","limits":[{"kind":"write-gated","value":"The gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this provider.","source":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com"}],"limits_note":"The gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this provider.","binding":"write-gated","binding_note":"The gate is a Russian mobile number demanded after the money has moved, which is the worst placement of an identity check because it costs the buyer the transaction rather than the signup; nothing about capacity or price decides this provider.","identity_cost":{"kind":"country-phone","detail":"a Russian mobile number for phone verification, demanded after registration and payment have completed and not disclosed at signup: the LowEndTalk report states registration and payment completed normally, then phone verification with a Russian mobile number was required, the server was never delivered and no refund was made. The payment route is the one the buyer had already cleared; no card type, hold amount or debit acceptance is stated. One reporting buyer only, so this is reported rather than documented","country":"RU"},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/207701/scam-alert-hosting-vds-com","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"a July 2025 LowEndTalk post reports that registration and payment completed normally, that phone verification with a Russian mobile number was then required and had not been disclosed, that the server was never delivered and no refund was made, and that the support reply was abusive"}],"verdict":"fails-identity","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"One reporting buyer, so the rung is reported and the pattern rests on a single account; a second independent report would move it. Two neighbours found in the same search and not recorded separately: 4vps.su, where a published complaint says a VDS was paid for and never worked, with no refund and a ticket left unanswered, and Digital-VM, reported on the same forum as having operated earlier as Virpus and shut down a paying customer's second server when a payment dispute was raised.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":"identity-gate-failure","free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":null,"ram_gib":null,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":0}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:write-gated","num":null,"unit":null,"per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"unparsed"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.egress.terms","not-stated"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"],["$.tooling","not-stated"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}]}