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Who are you / what is this blog?

This blog was created as a resource for updates, and to warn people about a serial scammer that has been operating since at least 2020, and keeps remaking fake donations, blogs, deleting as soon as they’re called out, and dodging the tumblr ban. They have accumulated thousands of dollars by scamming. This blog contains info, proof, and resources to help determine if the specific ask you got of someone begging you to reblog their donation post is this one, particular scammer. While the runner of this blog has called out multiple scammers in the past, this blog will contain only resources for one person in particular due to their repeated scamming.

Who is this scammer?

The scammer will be referred to as “Ivysour”, which is one of their usernames and one of the first blogs the mod has called out successfully, as we do not know their real name or gender, and they have repeatedly stole names and identities of other real people, or made fake ones. This scammer was the person behind the famous “Savemysister“ scam, which can be learned more on an archived page of the now-deleted blog donationscamwarning here. This scammer seems to be of Filipino heritage and operating in the Phillipines, as a large majority of their scams have stolen photos and identities from other Filipino people, and they frequently use Phillipine Pesos when asking for donations via paypal, as well as listing a gcash (a Phillipines based site) on multiple occasions, in addition to using Filipino phrases & seemingly using English as a second language. Please do not take this to mean that all Filipino fundraisers are scams, and do not let this discourage you from being generous & sympathetic to those who need help.

Savemysister was a scam started by someone who called themselves “Denneil” while running it, & who claimed their sister “Sharmaine” was deathly ill with Pulmonary Hypertension & needed donations for medical expenses and oxygen tanks, and set up a paypal, gcash, and gofundme. However, people began noticing discrepancies in their evidence provided and story: the full name of their “sister” was found on facebook, and contained photos of a woman who looked nothing like the sick woman in the “proof” photos of the savemysister blog. She also appeared to be healthy (unlike “Sharmaine” in the savemysister photos, who is bedridden in the hospital), and it was not elaborated upon why Sharmaine was not fundraising for herself if she is an adult (claimed age 22), or why the money fundraised was not going to her own account, but instead Denneil’s. Denneil/Ivysour also refused to answer almost any questions regarding the legitimacy of their fundraiser (including ones directly accusing them of being a scammer or simply asking for more proof), and utilized bots (often ones where the letter o’s were replaced with zeros) to send out spam asks to get people to reblog their fundraising post. They repeatedly used the same photos over and over, never provided more proof, and never updated on the situation on the alleged health of Sharmaine for 2 years. After multiple people calling out, with proof, of this being a scam, the official, first savemysister blog deactivated (though there are still some blogs floating around that were run by Denneil/ivysour). The savemysister gofundme has accumulated $14,000+ USD thus far and is still up.

Since savemysister’s deactivation, and since it had become widely known as a scam on tumblr, new blogs started popping up run by the same person, because people had stopped donating to them as often. One of the first of these to be called out was the blog Ivysour (see the original calllout post, with images of the original ivysour blog here). These blogs all claimed to be donating for a friend, a family member, or for someone the fundraiser had an undisclosed relationship with, and oftentimes it was for Pulmonary Hypertension (the same thing savemysister claimed their “Sister” was suffering from), with very similar language and wording as the savemysister blog. Two other such blogs were abbiegails & floresdj, but the paypal name associated with the respective blogs were different. The photos used as “proof” for the abbiegails account were also stolen, and the woman in the photo was suffering from end of life renal disease, not pulmonary hypertension. While the blog Ivysour moved a few times & remade (with some of their blogs still being up), the other two deleted soon after being called out, and more blogs started began popping up suddenly asking for donations. This scammer has increased their tactics and blogs for scamming since then.

How we know all these multiple blogs (& others that will be listed here) were run by the same person is due to behavior, tactics, paypals used, names used, photos/identities & real fundraisers (that were hijacked by the scammer) being found that were proven to be stolen, & behavior at being called out which link up with each other. These blogs have been carefully monitered, thoroughly investigated, and called out both by this blog’s mod, and others over time, with multiple forms of proof accumulated over the years, which will be documented here. This blog will list such tactics, how to spot them, which urls/names/paypals/language/photos have been associated with the scammer, because they’ve used them so often.

Is Ivysour the same person as Laura Deramas?

While Ivysour has been referred to as some and believed to be the same person as another person accused (with proof) of being a scammer, Laura Deramas, this blog does not believe they are the same person, and will operate as such. There is some evidence to suggest they are two seperate people, mainly due to their tactics and way of speaking.

So what can I do to help?

Links/resources:

Here is a list of the urls that have been used by Ivysour for scamming, most of which have been deactivated shortly after being called out. This list is likely not complete of every url that ivysour has used, and there may be others out there.

Here is a list of very common red flags that this scammer frequently has as behaviors when operating their scams, and have been used in the past. If you suspect a blog of being ivysour, they should meet multiple of these red flags. Use this as a helpful checklist to aid you in spotting out a potential scam, but do note that this is an accumulation of documented & observed behaviors over a period of time, an Ivysour has frequently changed up their tactics when being called out in order to avoid detection, and so their tactics may change up more in the future.

Here are common scripts or format that the scammer uses in their scam posts, and phrases they often use when asking for donations

here is a list of paypals & names they have used (some belonging to real people who’s identities they have stolen & have nothing to do with their scams; please respect their privacy) when scamming

Here are frequent ask messages they have sent out via bot spam in order to get people to reblog their scams. You can copy and paste the full ask message into tumblr search, which should give you results of people answering asks with the message you pasted, and often you will find this exact message sent by multiple different blogs (often pretending to be different people fundraising for different things). If you see this, it’s a scam

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