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🐝Scams to Bee Aware of on Tumblr: 🐝

(posted: 2/6/25 - Updated x/x/xx)

The art commission scam.

Are you an artist? Were you DM'd, sent an ask by a blog with no posts or little to no content, or had a comment on a post asking about a commission and to DM them? Did they ask you to draw their son, daughter, or pet? Did hey offer you $200-$500? If so, you should learn about this scam and how to avoid it.

The sugar baby/daddy scam. / Free money scam.

Did you make a post asking for donations? Did someone DM you wanting you to be their sugar baby or promising you money in exchange for something? Did they tell you that you need to send them money to verify you want to 'do this' or pay for 'shipping' or 'transaction' fees? You're about to get scammed!

The muse scam.

If you post photographs frequently, you may find your posts receiving comments from 'artists' saying how 'inspired' they are and how eager they are to make art or a mural for your work. This is a fake cheque scam and you should avoid it at all costs!

The (read more) / Click here! scam.

If you see a post ending in a link that says (read more...) or Click here! This is an attempt to get you to click a link that will lead to a malicious website in an attempt to steal your information, or possibly even install malicious files onto your phone or computer.

is Now Hiring! Scams. ✨New(ish)✨

See a post like this on your dash or in a tag you frequent? Was the user once a normal user and now they're spamming ads like this in unrelated tags? This likely means that user got their account hijacked by clicking the link via a different post. Avoid clicking links like these at all costs!

HRT Medicine / Therapy services ✨New(ish)✨

This scam is targeting transgender people, and is likely stealing peoples personal information and likely their credit card information. If you see or find a blog like the above commenting on your posts, in #transgender or other such related tags, block and report them immediately. (Selling stuff like this is illegal btw.)

Recovery Scammers.

If you make a post talking about how you've lost money, be it bitcoin, crypto, or were scammed in any sort of way, you may find yourself receiving an ask from a recovery scammer. These are people claiming they can offer 'recovery services' while claiming to be 'ethical hackers' that have 'back end knowledge' to online services. Claiming they can retrieve your money, account, photos, and other such lost items. All you have to do is give them your account information and some money! :) (Do not do this, obviously.)

These scammers also target people who post in #scam and/or other related tags like #scams or #scam alert, posting things like this in the comments on peoples posts:

Dropshipping Websites. (Curtsy of @ai-art-thieves)

See a post of an object or a piece of clothing by a popular tumblr user that has 10k+ notes, does it say 'I got this here!' or '>>GET YOURS HERE<<' at the bottom with a link to a store? That user is a part of a dropshipping advertising scheme and are being paid to advertise these scummy websites. These websites are usually malicious in the manner that they sell cheaply products. In the worst case you'll get a bootleg or flawed product, or even a different product completely, or in even worse cases, you'll never get it at all.

(Or they will steal your information in the case of those shopify websites that popup online with deals you 'just can't refuse!!!' So buyer beware.)

Campaign boost/mutual aid support scams. (By @kyra45)

If you or anyone you know has posted looking for donations, and you receive an ask, DM, or even a comment about someone offering to 'assist you in boosting your account/campaign,' all you have to do is pay them <amount>, then this is a fake check scam you should definitely read up on and learn about to avoid.

Pet donation Scams. (by @kyra45)

See a post about someone needing help with a vet bill? Do they stress the pet is in peril and will die soon? Is their PayPal from the Philippines yet the vet bill is from the United states? Those are just two things to look out for with this scam.

Donation / Mutual Aid scams. (by @kyra45)

One of the most common and well known scams on tumblr to this day. These scams mainly revolve around brand new accounts made within a day or week reblogging very few posts and then suddenly asking for money via donations through PayPal. These blogs will send out the same copy/paste ask en masse to dozens if not hundreds of people, change their name frequently over the course of days if not weeks, and will even lie about being Palestinian, stealing stories from legitimate gofundmes, and even having conditions such as diabetes while not even knowing how it works.

Here is a current list of documented PayPal scammers: Part 3

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Some helpful blogs to follow:

@kyra45 @ai-art-thieves @u-reblogged-a-scam

Tags to follow/check if you need to check on scams:

#scam #scams #scam alert #scammer #scammers

I also have a very extensive list of scammer call out posts on my main blog, @slenbee under my #scam tag which can be found here if anyone's interested in scrolling through it. Just note that I kindly ask that minors do not follow that blog as it is my personal blog and is not a blog dedicated to scam busting/documenting.

You're 100% ok with looking through the scam tag and reblogging things from it, as well as checking out the links on my pinned post. :)

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I think that's it for Tumblr scams, If I think I need to add more later I'll update the post and make an update note about it.

Take care everyone and don't get scammed!

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Check out the Index of important posts I've made!

Here's a post on some tips and tricks on spotting scam blogs.

How to guide: Reverse Image Search. (now with web extensions!)

Scammers pretending to be Palestinian v6 by @kyra45

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A puppet of fate.

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No wonder Daniel abandoned this thing, ugly doesn't even begin to describe this.

A bit sad for the monster though, imagine, you being brought into this world, yet even your creator can't really give you love, even your creator is like " Ew, this thing is my child? I made this ? ".

Talk about looking nothing like your parent though, right?

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" if you hear the voice of a child asking for it's mother, ignore it and do not answer the door, you are no one's mother, go back to sleep. "

" mommy?"

The destitute, a creature that mimics a child's likeness and voice to lure it's victims, honestly that's morbid, but the creature itself is interesting, came from one of Daniel's books.

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they take care of eachother aka mia wont go to bed until she knows her dads alright even if he can do it on his own

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Wendy: " he's scared, fear can make people dangerous..."

That's... very wise actually, some of Wolfgang's lines do make it clear he is terrified of Wendy, which makes sense, he is scared of monsters and Wendy can just summon Abigail, a ghost, guess he feels terrified because she is followed by her, not to mention her lines about death, a bit funny though that if you attack a Wolfgang as a Wendy he will basically scream " Aaah! Creepy child is attacking me!" In response, he's this terrified of her.

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A simple drawing of a minecraft dog I made, a friend.

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Techno and his voices too, this is what someone would probably see if they tried looking into his mind, just this feeling of intense hostility and bloodlust, yearning for violence, their eyes staring right back at this intruder.

No wonder they'd be scared off pretty quickly.

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" Kian knows?"

This more doubtful tone does represent well his emotional state in Calamity, he was trying to stay strong, after all, if a leader loses morale the entire team does too, but there was some doubt showing in how he acted.

I think a good example of this was when he was trying to inspire the others after a loss, he was smiling while in front of them, trying to reassure them, yet when he wasn't giving a speech anymore, his facial expression changed, it just... fell a bit flat, showing doubt/worry , really shows the pressure in leading a team.

Even some of his teammates noticed this difference, though he didn't really want to talk about it.

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Mia: " Ugh, the flashlight's out of battery..."

Agatha : " Leave it to me."

Huh, who knew an injury that caused so much pain could come in handy, eh? I don't think the flashlight does run out of battery in the game, though if this happened it would be funny.

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" The story doesn't end here... "

" I came to offer you... A pact."

This does make me curious for what's next, it seems like the devil chose Henri to possess, I'd say possess because sometimes Henri did seem to be acting as himself, sometimes as the devil, so much so that the others didn't realize that Henri was a bit different, makes sense, Henri already seems to have a love for pain and all, would be hard to notice a possession like that, it's very clear the devil chose him because he has plans, and I'm very intrigued as to what's ahead.

To me that seems to be what happened, though I might be wrong, will have to wait and see for more details.

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To AI " artists".

Rant incoming.

Yeah, it's in quotations for a reason, you are no artist if you use AI to create.

So let me start by telling you how much of a lazy person one has to be to use AI to create for them, are you really that inept that you can't be bothered to pick up a pencil? So scared of failure you'd rather not even try at all and let the computer do so for you? That is just pathetic.

And before you use that excuse of " but disabled people..." that's incorrect, people have adapted to make art if they desired despite disability for a long time before ai existed, these are real artists that put in effort into what they create, not some lazy sack of potatoes like " AI artists" are.

In fact, even a child is more of an artist than "Ai artists." are, because at least a child has love for their creations, whatever they might be, a computer cannot do that, a computer cannot have emotions, without that, art is hollow, it's... not really art at that point, even a child's drawing has more soul and thought behind it than any ai slop will ever have.

" but it draws better than I ever could... "

Seriously? Let me remind you it does make mistakes too, it was made in our image, but it doesn't have the same logic a real artist has, it will have it's limitations, a computer cannot be a human being, it will not think like one.

And if you never even picked up a pencil in the first place, how do you know you absolutely can't be a good artist? You never tried, your sloth kept that future from you.

If you are too afraid of falling you'll never fly, so to actual artists: go on and make those mistakes, that's how you learn.

" but it'd take a lot of time to learn."

And? Of course it will, it is a skill, it will take time, but the journey is how you develop, you cannot expect to achieve anything in life easily, it will take effort on your part,like it or not.

So stop making excuses and maybe try actually drawing for once, without your precious little tool doing it for you, if someone like you can actually manage being anything more than mediocre that is.

" it's not stealin..."

Would you call doing some modification on someone's drawing and claiming it as yours stealing? Of course it is stealing, from several people even, it hurts actual artists and you deserve to have your stolen "art" drowned in poison, you incompetent buffoon.

I do not support AI art, and if you do... kindly take yourself out the door or I will do so for you.

In short: if you are an " AI artist" you are not welcome here, you are not even an artist, just a mediocre human being that I will be glad to block, take your shitty slop elsewhere, preferably to the trash.

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