While TinkyWinky was telling GK that no one would help him…
He was already approaching someone else.
TheBionaut ( the owner of the platform, Pepchat)
And unlike GK, who had the patience of a saint, TheBionaut had something else entirely:
Instinct, pattern recognition, and a reverse image search that takes 30 seconds.
First Contact: The Bulk Pitch
On December 13 2024, TinkyWinky reached out directly to TheBionaut.
Same script. Same urgency.
“Hi, Goodkitty referred me to you. I need to move half of these items if possible 30% of the stocklot.”
Attached:
The now familiar green price list.
480 kits. Uniform quantities. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in theoretical value.
He clarified that he was selling at 30% of what he paid and claimed to have:
Original invoice
COA
He was “targeting resellers.”
TheBionaut replied almost immediately.
“Stelios is that you?”
And just like that, the tone shifted.
The Reverse Image Search
It read like clairvoyance, but it wasn't.
Bionaut didn’t “sense” anything. He did what anyone with a working brain and Wi-Fi would do: he checked the profile picture.
A reverse image search led him straight to the real Stelios Mormoris, entrepreneur, CEO, fragrance aficionado, poet, author of The Oculus, and, crucially, not a man trying to liquidate half a warehouse of peptides to strangers online.
The real Stelios also has an active Instagram presence, with plenty of photos and videos. Which made the identity theft problem slightly harder to argue with.
Poor TinkyWinky had chosen the worst possible profile picture to steal.
TheBionaut, now fully alert, didn't respond to the sales pitch. Instead, he contacted GK to check whether this was legitimate.
GK gave him a brief summary of her rather painful experience dealing with TinkyWinky, and TheBionaut managed to do something rare on the internet: he thanked her and apologised at the same time.
But to be completely certain, he asked GK whether she knew Stelios personally, and whether she could confirm this wasn't a scam, in which case he could potentially refer Stelios to group buy organisers.
Unfortunately GK could do neither. But she did note something important: TinkyWinky’s English was “a little off,” enough to raise suspicion.
And TheBionaut had already noticed something even more basic.
The real Stelios speaks perfect English in his videos.
This one did not.
Conclusion:
“I suspect a scam.”
Identity Shift
Meanwhile, on Discord, something curious happened.
TinkyWinky changed his profile picture.
The rugged male image disappeared.
In its place: a softer, more feminine photograph.
Username updated:
Wellnessnerd but he hadn't fully committed to the new costume. His handle still contained tinkywinky. In other words, it was the same person, just wearing a different profile picture.
Still targeting TheBionaut.
Still pushing the same price list.
Still selling at “30% of original cost.”
The disguise was cosmetic.
The arithmetic was not.
The Maths Problem
TheBionaut ran the numbers.
If Tinky was selling at 30% of his purchase price, Tirz-30 would cost:
$186
Which, as TheBionaut politely noted, was still above market rate for a single kit.
For context:
T10: $100
T30: $160 to $180
Even at “clearance” pricing, the offer was uncompetitive.
The desperation discount was not actually a discount.
Cornered
TheBionaut pressed further.
“Your picture I recognise. Your name is Stelios?”
This time, Tinky responded directly.
“Yes, my name is Stelios M Mormoris. I honestly didn’t expect to run into someone who recognises me here. It’s a small world!”
It was.
Especially when you borrowed someone else’s face.
The Warehouse Claim
TheBionaut shifted from identity to inventory.
“Do you have the stock in-hand?”
Tinky claimed he did.
He suggested;
Buyer can visit
View
Pay
Remove stock at wholesale cost
TheBionaut asked for verification:
“Please send an image to verify you have inventory. Handwritten sign with today’s date.”
Reasonable.
Modern.
Basic.
While Wellnessnerd was speaking to TheBionaut on discord, TinkyWinky continued to message TheBionaut on Pepchat, still asking the same question, how to get his products sold on Pepchat and discord. The guy was persistent if nothing else
The Verification Photo
The next day and back on discord, Tinky sent an image:
Boxes.
Blue caps.
Handwritten note.
He appeared confident.
He should not have been.
The China Problem
TheBionaut recognised the factory immediately.
Not vaguely.
Specifically.
“This image is from China. I recognise the packaging and floor. I know this factory, and they don’t export in these large boxes.”
Tinky insisted;
“No this is stock USA. I don’t have stock china.”
Then:
“i buy stock chin
i bring it usa”
Language shifts again.
Defensive tone
Fragmented grammar
Confidence fading.
TheBionaut escalated and showed him a video of the same boxes in the same factory
“That picture is from a fill-finish workshop in China. Not a warehouse in the USA.”
The defence became colour coded:
“its different stock mine blue cap, I buy stock China, I bring it USA”
As if the cap colour overrides geography.
The battle continued for a while, Tinky still claiming the stock was in USA, and TheBionaut still insisting on a picture of USA stock
The Imaginary PA
Finally, once it dawned on Tinky he was losing the “Battle of the Warehouses,” Tinky pulled out the invisible assistant.
“Holdi ask my PA to go and snap from my warehouse now.”
The PA was everywhere in theory and nowhere in reality.
The Selfie Request
After further back and forth about caps, stock location and box origin, TheBionaut asked the inevitable modern question:
“Send me a selfie with the stock and I will believe you. Otherwise, please stop wasting my time with fake images from USA
At this point the entire operation rested on one thing:
Proof of existence
The Line That Broke It
Tinky responded;
“i will do that no issue , we here to move goods not waste anyone time”
We.
Plural.
An operation?
A team?
Or simply habit?
Regardless, it was too late.
TheBionaut finally had enough of the games and spoke his mind
“Your name is not Stelios M Mormoris is it?
Look I’m not trying to make an issue for you. It’s just easier if you’re straight with me. My goal is to ensure members don’t get ripped off.”
The Counter-Interrogation
Once pushed into a corner, TinkyWinky did what these types always do when they run out of evidence.
He changed the direction of questioning.
Instead of answering, he asked TheBionaut the question that, as well as him, everyone else in the community also wanted to know:
“what is your name ? why would i give u fake name i dont know who you dealing with before but not here to waste my time i am reputable respected person i cant do anything illegal
“i am not from china”
“i will send u pictures”
“i cant lie to anyone”
This was a familiar manoeuvre: reverse the burden of proof.
He’d been asked to verify his identity and inventory.
He responded by demanding TheBionaut’s name and presenting his own honesty as self-evident.
He also added, unprompted, that he “can’t do anything illegal”, which is never a reassuring development.
TheBionaut’s response was simple
“Ok, looking forward to it”
To which TinkyWinky replied
“Send me our number will call you also”
The Announcement
Instead of exchanging numbers as Tinky suggested, TheBionaut did something far more effective.
On Christmas Eve, he issued a public warning.
A formal alert:
Failed inventory verification
Photos from China claiming US stock
Stalling on identity confirmation
Identity theft from Instagram
The post named the account.
Advised caution.
Encouraged reporting.
The tone was not dramatic
It was procedural.
Which made it far more damaging.
The Christmas Eve Threat
After the public warning went up, TinkyWinky did not retreat.
He escalated.
In response to being called out, he sent the following:
“U are very dumb to call me scam i never ask u pay me or anyone, i said come my office and view and pay u think i will scam people and destroy my public name
Its fine , This is the only place u have power its ur channel i will get u one day u will look for help from my circle call you scammer”
Let’s translate that calmly.
He denied being a scammer.
He insisted he never asked for payment.
He reframed it as an in person transaction.
Then he pivoted;
“This is the only place you have power.”
“I will get u one day.”
“You will look for help from my circle.”
That was not indignation.
That was a threat dressed up as wounded pride.
And notably, this arrived immediately after he was publicly flagged for:
Failing inventory verification
Sending images from China while claiming US stock
Assuming the identity of a real Instagram personality
At this point the mask wasn't slipping.
It was gone.
The Core Pattern
The most revealing aspect of this chapter is not the identity theft.
It is the repetition.
1.Urgency
2.Bulk liquidation
3.Outsourced credibility
4.Factory reports presented as independent
5.Discount escalation
6.Emotional leverage
7.Identity pivot
8.Location pivot
9.Invoke imaginary assistant
10.Request deletion
Every stage is reactive.
Every pivot followed exposure.
And every time, the solution proposed was the same:
“Help me move the stock.”
But this was not the end of TinkyWinky.
Not even close.
Because once exposed publicly, he did not disappear.
He evolved.
And that evolution is where the story becomes something else entirely.
As it turns out, TinkyWinky did not “get him one day.” TheBionaut did not go looking for help from his “circle.” He also did not appear remotely troubled.
Stay tuned for the next instalment, where I decided not to miss out on the fun and approached “Wellnessnerd” myself.
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