Safety and account risk
What is an exit scam, and can you see one coming?
Last updated by The PanelCompare editorial team
Why is this the dominant loss vector?
Because the business model holds other people’s money by design. Every buyer keeps a working balance in the panel, the settlement rails are irreversible, and the panel has no regulatory obligation to segregate funds. The float is therefore always large, always liquid, and always exit-able.
The honest complication is that provider collapse produces identical symptoms without malice: a Tier-1 supplier dies and every downstream panel silently stops delivering while still accepting orders. From the buyer’s seat the two are indistinguishable, which is why panels that publish provider redundancy deserve credit and why sudden silence should be treated the same way regardless of cause.
What should make you withdraw your balance today?
- A deposit bonus that is suddenly far more generous than the panel’s own history.
- Support reply times stretching from hours to days with no explanation.
- Partials clustering across many unrelated services at once.
- Withdrawal or refund paths quietly disabled, or a new minimum on them.
- Catalogue-wide price cuts that make no commercial sense.
- The panel’s API answering yesterday and not today — an availability signal that shows up days before forum posts do.
Splitting a balance across clone panels diversifies nothing
Two panels run by one operator share an outage, a provider collapse and an exit. Two indexed panels were found sharing near-identical marketing copy and an identical nine-market targeting list, and two others share a named operating company (PanelCompare domain research, 2026-09-06). Check for shared copy, shared payment endpoints and shared registrant details before treating two panels as independent.
Think this answer is wrong?
Prices, refill terms and platform policies in this market all move, so an answer that was right in September may not be right in December. Every figure above names its source and the date it was checked; if one of them is stale or wrong, the correction process on the about page has a two-working-day reply target, and corrections are published with a dated note rather than quietly patched.