#News About Scammers
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Some humans disgust me. The fact I have to cross-check gfms to see if they're scammers is fucking foul. Why would anyone think faking to be victim of GENOCIDE is an okay way to get money??? I understand some people feel embarrassed asking for financial help, but pretending to be Palestinian to get money from people is gross and unforgivable.
For all the people who verify gfms, thank you, but the fact you even have to do that is just sad.
It infuriates me.
#who in their right mind would do such a thing??#free palastine#free rafah#free gaza#wtf#hands off rafah#rafah under attack#save rafah#keep eyes on rafah#rafah news#rafah crossing#rafah border#rafah#all eyes on rafah#gazaunderfire#news on gaza#gaza genocide#dont fake gfms#scammers fuck off#stand with gaza#war on gaza#gaza strip#gaza#gazaunderattack#save gaza#all eyes on palestine#dont stop talking about palestine#palestinian lives matter#palestinian genocide#help palestine
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Zionist.
saying don't fall for scams does not make someone a zionist. tumblr asks are NOT actual calls for aid!
i was just going to delete this ask like i do all scam asks, but i figured id post it just in case other people are getting similar things for... not being gullible? for trying to stop other people from being scammed and sending their money to scammers instead of actual palestinians?
many people in palestine obviously need aid. an obvious bot sending thousands of messages to thousands of people asking for "aid" will not help those people. they aren't from actual victims. they're from random people who are weaponizing the kindness of strangers to make a buck. falling for it helps absolutely no one. critical thinking is even MORE important in a time like this, stop falling for this obvious shit! they're just like the ai porn bots. they're used by the same exact people for the same exact reasons, getting money off those who are gullible. they're scumbags who are weaponizing peoples empathy to make a buck off a genocide. stop. falling. for. it.
they're trying to take advantage of you. they're assuming you're too stupid to think critically about who you think you're helping. stop proving them right.
there are thousands of actual ways to donate to those in need that aren't tumblr ask scams!
#this is an extremely frustrating thing that is becomming much too common on tumblr#those asks calling for “aid” arent real people. they have never been real people. theyre bots by scammers.#this isnt a new strategy either! scammers have been doing this for years!#its only recently theyve been weaponizing peoples empathy for palenstine in these godawful asks#be kind recklessly but dont be an idiot#why do you think all these asks have variations of the EXACT same words? why do you think they all talk like chat gpt?#there are hundreds of ACTUAL ways to send aid to ACTUAL genocide victims isntead of some random guy whos using chat gpt to spam people#these scammers rely on you not questioning anything. they rely on you WANTING to fall for it#donating to some random ass dude in luxemburg or whatever helps no one#for the love of all that is holy stop falling for these scams. theres plenty of confirmed ways to send aid!!!!!!!!!#free palestine#free actual palenstine and not random shitstains trying to take advantage of war and peoples empathy#the 'i hate ai croud' when the ai pretends to be from palenstine: real shit?!#critical thinking is a blessing for both you and the actual people you could send aid to :)))))))))))#this whole situation is so frustrating. so many people keep falling for these obvious scam asks#i can only hope someone thinks twice about sending money to some random TUMBLR ASK after seeing this#please send your aid to actual palestinians and not scammers
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Credit card got pwned today
Frankly, I'm surprised it took this long
#i make very little attempt to secure my cards and instead rely on fraud detection for when (not if) they get stolen#feel the same way about my identity or email address or phone number tbh#can't outsmart the cottage industry of hackers and scammers teying to get at my shit but i can shut them down quickly and spin up a new one
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Stop giving people moral ocd or I'm gonna pepper spray your underwear drawer
#You don't know what kind of activism people participate in offline you don't know if they donate to Palestine AND AO3#Unless you spend a lot of time with them in person (in which case talk to them offline- we don't need to see that)#You do not fucking know these people!#Stop assuming the worst in others!#Why do you feel the need to berate the broke bitch website for being broke bitches?#Some of y'all sound just like the “Oh but you're not too poor to buy an iPhone” crowd#And imo that's far more embarrassing to be#Also some of the asks that have been going around ARE scams#And I have seen people who are verifying accounts asking you not to fucking share those#“Oh but the scammers probably need it more than me anyway”#1. If you're working minimum wage like I am no they fucking don't#2. Do they need it more than real Palestinians? The people you could be helping instead?#“Let's not play oppression Olympics” yeah okay!#Let's start by not shaming people who don't have money to share just because they're American and you personally don't believe they're poor#See how this works?#Also I HAVE seen at least 3 gfm reach their goals#2 raised the goal. One started a new gfm#So before you despair about nobody reaching their goals maybe check the notes? Just a thought.#I'm sure those 3 aren't the only ones
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instead of turning off anon asks i feel like i need a way to turn off *non* anon asks. or turn off asks from people who don't follow me. or something. the amount of donation request asks from strangers i'm getting is starting to become obnoxious but because they're never on anon i have no way to block them
#have considered closing my askbox entirely but i do actually like getting asks from people who want to talk to me!#and i would like to go back to being excited when i see that i have a new ask#instead of going 'ugh another thing i have to delete'#i know people have Strong Opinions about this latest wave of fundraising asks and are arguing over whether they are bots/scammers or genuin#but regardless my policy is that I do not use this blog to spread donation requests#(this is my personal journal not a public bulletin board. other ppl can use their blogs for other things but this is mine)#stars rambles
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#twitter#verifiedaccounts#verification#blue checkmark#the incredibles#incredibles#meme#syndrome#verified#but for real#this new system has nuked all credibility for anyone on the site#and im not talking just about parody accounts#no the real concern is with the scammers and groomers who will have even less stopping them from pretending to be fanous people to exploit#children into sending or doing things because they think theyre talking with their idol#Twitter was already a dumpster but identity verification was a good measure towards safegaurding
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i should probably make ( or remake ) a friendgroup hangout server for tumblr mutuals adn the like but i am so fucking sapped of energy that i dont feel like it and am overly paranoid ab stupid friendgroup drama happening Again . also my trackpad being half broken all the time prob doesnt help
#aria talkz#i should probasbly turn my asks back on i just stopped bc it kept being like... the one notorious scammer for like. whats it called#whatever the medicines called . that one .#but im also paranoid . what if someone kills me .in my asks. ( nobody will#Sometimes i still think ab when i got asked if i was proship at the age of like 14 on tumblr like . ????#thoughts aside if you ever want to talk to me and we're like. regular mutuals..(???) (idk reblog from eachother regularly. i guess) then i#do like. exist. i just dont have asks on so itd be only dms ig . or discord if i trusted you enough and thought you were cool enough#which basically just means 'match my energy enough to where i am comfortable talking to you 1 on 1'#i very much love being asked about my interests or ocs . that is the easiest way to talk to me personally i just have asks off rn#ive locked in before on making new friends and actively trying to get involved in shit im interested in its just scary after .#back to back to back friendgroup drama trauma . lol the rhyme.#i met most of my friends on ponytown but i also lost like most of the friends i met on there . lol
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hahaha hey you guys guess what. you'll never believe it. got the guy who's in charge of my fraud case on the phone and he was like "who'd you give one-time security codes to yesterday" and i was like "the guy who called me from the fraud department after they noticed a weird login in florida??" and he was like "that was the fuckin hacker. you got got. IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!" i handed my entire savings over to a fucking guy on the phone on a silver platter. like some kind of fuckin rube. bro
#IT IS OK THOUGH I HAVE BEEN SORTING IT OUT#account is LOCKED DOWN! card is DELETED! fraud paperwork has been FILED! i have requested a fraud alert AND credit freeze#from the NATIONAL CREDIT BUREAU!#a friend of mine is taking me to MAINE next saturday to go to the BANK! i sent an email to my landlord asking if i can pay rent by CHECK!#i went to my other bank and deposited my BONDS! so i have some MONEY! to pay RENT!#i also got a new debit card from them. and made sure i could use my old checks.#i also bought some STAMPS while i was out and a BIRTHDAY PRESENT for a FRIEND#now i am going to start switching over some auto deposits#so when i get my paycheck on tuesday i will actually get it.#i feel so STUPID but i think i have done all i can to fix this. i am feeling better about it#by next weekend i will have my money again. it's all fine#and hopefully next time i will not get got so easily. lol.#anyway dont get got by people pretending to be your bank i guess. i did think it was weird how many questions they asked but..#they ALWAYS ask lots of questions at the bank!!!!!#i got a text message FROM the bank saying they would be calling me soon and then the next call was from the scammer#and then like a half hour later got one from the bank and was confused bc they'd just 'called me'#anyway. it'll be fine. scary for a while but at least i have things i can do to make it better. it's all good#genuinely feeling like i ought to take out like a thousand bucks cash and keep it in my desk to replace my bonds tho tbh hahah#just in case something like this happens again. you never know. what would i have done if i DIDNT have those yknow#ok thank u all for being along on this journey with me
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I wish there was a way to allow only anon asks
#I don't want to close asks entirely but I only get off anon asks from people asking for donations#and I don't want to blame the people in need but on my end they're undistinguishable from scammers#also I kinda hit a limit of how many news I can get about children getting carpet bombed
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Ok I genuinely don't see why everyone is being huges jelly beans about the use of AI in multiple different settings. Be it work, art, apps, or anything (Feel free to inform me! Heaven and Hell know I despise being uniformed)
It's not that I necessarily agree with it (it is laying ppl off work. Stealing art- etc), but AI isn't necessarily bad it's literally just being used wrong! You can blame the creators and government for not setting regulations. Ai is not only made to do bad things and to cover the work ppl do, but to take some of the workload off people do. Or can't do.
Is it good?
.................... Questionable.
You can feel stingy about Ai for stealing art, work, and dawned MONEY
But! Seriously try to at least understand why instead of instantly hating the use of AI all together
We often times get SO into a thing we forget to take a step back and really acknowledge the big picture! I do that shit too! and trust me it a lot harder to see you're doing it lest someone taps u asking "yo you good?"
Ai isn't bad but it can be if it's influenced by bad people. And we can be pretty f-ing bad. And not in the cool way.
#AI is complicated rn#very different than normal but my fyp is filled with discourse on Ai#theres art where it was made by ai#sound clipsade by ai#scammers that used ai#a shitload of things made by ai#both good and bad#things happen#yet we are at the beginning stages of ai#the whole 2000s were about learning new and improved technologies#say in the 1900s#which are not that far realistically#it was unthinkable to have the things we do#but were moving#at a VERY fast pace#too fast#think we gotta think about it a bit more#if we get the climate crisis in check#we'll have more#but seriously#ai technology#regulations#we're kinda missing those#ai work#ai artwork#ai#if you wanna blame someone blame the government
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Really not sure why new tumblr accounts/tumblr scammers are so obsessed with learning my location. You want me so bad it makes you look stupid. You wanna sell my data so bad you're wetting your fucking pajamas. You want me to buy into your mlms & schemes so bad you're practically shitting bricks. It's silly & quite annoying having my dms clogged up with nonsensical bull shit.
#anyone else's account on the new user signup rotation process?#I have like 13k+ alleged followers practically overnight & you couldn't pay me enough to sift through this many accounts for bots#genuinely tumblr has a bot problem lmao I should post those screenshots I have of that lady trying to sell me bitcoin years ago or somethin#I purposefully wasted her time because it was funny to me#oh you have 3 kids?? what do they think about you trying to sell your mlm scheme; do they know?#tumblr unfortunately deleted the conversation :((( So I only have so much of it archived visually lol it was a gold mine#mine#op#tumblr bots#tumblr scam#tumblr scammers
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You're such a crybaby lmao
What is this even about
#legit.#like I am a huge complainer vent poster I admit it but I cannot think of anything recent this could be referring to???#I can't even be offended because I have no idea what the context is for this.#tbh this is comical to me#I guess if they were looking thru my original post tag it could be something older or just an overall observation rather than smthn recent#and I'll likely never get answers since I doubt this is someone who (still) follows me and since it's on anon they won't get notified#ThornShadow.said#ask#anon#edit: looked thru my recent posts and I liveblog watching movies more than I complain recently and all that is DROWNED out by scammer asks.#but also maybe more posts are reading as serious venting than I mean as such? cuz I sillily post about minor annoyances all the time#IDK maybe my anti advertising post got some new notes and it's about that.#cuz I've been called all sorts of similar stuff over that post.
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Bruh u dont just send me an ask telling me what to do, fuck you stop trying to be famous by doing that kind of thing, hope u momma taught you how to respect other’s opinion on something i dont know you and you dont know me so leave me alone and mind your own fucking business you sick psycho bitch
What lol
@kyra45 are you seeing this
#context basically i sent them my ask about turnersapphic being a scammer made a vent post and um i got this lmao#babby's first hate mail#hate#hate cw#bullying cw#ableism cw#lowkey wondering if this is a pseudo for the scammer bc it has sapphic in the url#and it's a super new acct but i'm just thinking out loud
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The amount of scammers that have been in my inbox lately is driving me insane
#the best part?#the blog is brand fucking new#I have a small theory that they are targeting people the repost anything about being in support of Gaza because most of them only reblog#those types of posts#but idk#random0lover rambling ♡#scammers
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Theres a girl trying to scare me off nookazon and threatening me cause I left her a 1 star review for selling me a villager but never actually giving it to me, and I'm like. Girl this is nookazon calm down
#she gave me a 1 star and said i was a scammer#then texted me like '1 star doesnt look good on new accounts 😏 change mine to a 5 and ill change yours'#girl i dont care about nookazon enough to be scared about that#i literally only joined to get one villager#i have nothing to lose. stop threatening me
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That semi-toxic content creator urge to juice every negative or unresolved interaction for at least an entertaining story.
That highly toxic tendency for negative and unresolved interactions to be so incredibly boring.
#I did not get scammed today despite shutting down my internal klaxons multiple times#and despite still feeling rude for not even entertaining the option to accommodate the scammer's preferred payment method#just happy i responded quickly so it was just like an hour of ''what really you like that old piece?'' to oh okay there's the catch#pretty sure i even saw an insta story warning about this specific scam but it was at least a year ago and who has the memory space#on the plus side i read the new terms of service of my invoice software in case of future real commissions#ramblings
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