NEVER
Two different kinds of false live here and it helps to keep them apart, because they fail for different reasons and they fool people in different ways.
Kind one: the maths forbids it
A retired address returning under the same string. A short prefix identifying a long key. These are not unlikely, they are ruled out by the same arithmetic that makes the ALWAYS section boring. Somebody would have to break the underlying construction, and if they had done that, your address problem would be far down the list of things to worry about.
Kind two: the claim is about the wrong thing
A screenshot cannot prove a page existed, because an image is not evidence of the thing it depicts. A padlock cannot tell you a site is the right site, because it was never describing that. A search ranking is a statement about a search engine.
These are the dangerous ones. Nothing about them feels wrong. They fail because the thing offered as proof is not connected to the thing being proved, and that gap is invisible unless you go looking for it.
- A screenshot proves it
- The padlock proves it
- A high search result proves it
- A page proves the address is up now
And two about people
Support existing outside the market, and anything legitimate asking for a recovery phrase. Both describe an offer that only ever comes from someone with a reason to make it. Neither has a good version. There is no rare honest case where a stranger helpfully asks for your seed words.
Why the section is short
NEVER is the easiest bucket to abuse and the strictest one to qualify for. Plenty of statements feel like they belong here and do not. A vendor never ships late. Escrow never fails. A mirror never changes. All of those are DEPENDS wearing a strong word, because you can describe the situation where each is false in one sentence.
The rule is that if a determined person with ordinary resources can make the statement true, it is not NEVER. Only nine claims survive that. Everything else people call impossible turned out to be improbable, which is a different word with different consequences.
Using this section
These are the pages to reach for when somebody is trying to reassure you. Reassurance about an awazon market url usually leans on exactly one of these nine, and once you can name which one, the conversation gets much shorter.
The nine share one habit
Look at what each false claim is doing and a pattern shows up. Every one of them substitutes something cheap for something expensive. A prefix instead of a full string. An image instead of a page you loaded. A ranking instead of a check. A friendly message instead of an account you can log into.
The substitution is always in the same direction, from a thing that takes effort to a thing that takes none. That is the tell to carry around. When verification suddenly gets easy, it usually got replaced rather than improved.
What we are not saying
None of these nine pages say that a market is safe if you avoid the nine mistakes. They say that these particular nine claims are false. Avoiding a false claim is not the same as having a true one, and this section does not hand you a positive statement of safety anywhere.
That gap is intentional. There is no page here titled how to be sure, because there is no procedure that ends in certainty, and writing one would be the tenth false claim.