#cat scammer

[andipxndy]

Yo hi there! I’m hoping you dont find this ask strange, weird or whatever you call it 😞 Just wanted to ask a favor if you could possibly check the post I pinned for my cat? Its on this blog, please do check if you have a spare time and reblog/boost it as we badly need help 😭😭 Im so sorry if I did bother you, just need some help. Please do send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately, please and have good day! 😭🙏🙏🐈

Hi! You look like a scammer!!!

Thank you for coming into my inbox so that I can make other people aware of you!!

THIS IS A SCAMMER. PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW THE PAYPAL LINK ON THEIR PINNED POST.

They have used the same profile pic and PayPal link in their pinned post for other scams:

For more information on prior scams, you can check out more on @scamarchive , who has been documenting their scamming behaviour for a while.

You can also find more info on the pet medical Bill scam here:

[gunitnekoh]

Hey there, the sick cat post (keeping-head-above-waters) is a scam. This person has been remaking their blog with a different spin on the same “sick pet” story numerous times.

Scammer’s blogs usually:

- Are very young (you can scroll to the bottom within a few minutes; on PC you can easily access their Archive which summarizes all their posts)

- Reblog most posts from the source/op (they just go through common tags and don’t genuinely follow anyone)

- Will request that users answer their asks privately (hiding their tracks)

- Request that PayPal payments go through Friends & Family (bypasses most of PP’s anti-scam protocols)

The blog kyra45 posts a lot of good tips and alerts for identifying scam blogs

(if you delete the post please remember to report op for spam as well)

Well FUCK!

This is the post if anyone else reblogged it too

[coulsonlives]

PSA: CAT MEDICAL BILL SCAM

Please signal boost this if possible to inform your followers about these scams.

Earlier today, I got a message from the account nicole-loves-king, where they asked me to signal boost a post because their cat needed medical help. Here's the ask:

(And you can see the post in question here)

I looked at this post and was immediately put off because they were asking for people to send things through 'friends and family', which if you aren't aware, is a very insecure way to send someone funds using paypal, because you don't have the protections you would get if you used 'goods and services'. So scammers can make off w your money really easily.

I looked at their blog and scrolled down to the end, and I realized their blog was made today! And, all their posts (there weren't many posts to begin with lol) were of trending topics. I noted puss in boots, and welcome to nightvale among others. This is probably how they found me, because I reblogged some of that stuff recently.

Here's the time stamp from their oldest post (notice it says the time, not the date, which means the post was from today):

In their ask, they also tell you to answer privately. Hm, that seems sus. Why would someone not want you to publish a request for help?

So I have a policy where I don't signal boost posts from brand new blogs because, yknow, they could be scams. I posted this, and the scam account blocked me. They also blocked my friend when they replied to their ask and said their blog looked suspicious. I did some more digging, and I found a comment from someone that confirmed my suspicions:

This is in fact a scam!

@nicstonka is almost identical to the above account (nicole-loves-king). Look at the avatar, the pictures, and the paypal address, both accounts even have 'nic' (as in 'nicole') in the name. The only thing that is extremely different is the name of the cat! Yet both blogs also have the name of the cat in their url ('king' and 'tonka'). That should also be a red flag, because usually someone isn't gonna have the name of their pet in their url, only a few posts, and a signal boost for that exact (fake) pet.

Here's a side by side:

Looks at those paypal accounts: nbrunelle519, and nbrunelle391. Nope definitely not a scam /s

And the cat pictures side by side:

Tumblr's "scam" tag is actually full of these reports now, which you can see here. Or if there's nothing there anymore, click here and here for images.

And links to some older PSAs about other cat scams: 1 2 3

So if you see any blogs like this, where all they have is trending posts, it seems like they've copied and pasted an ask to you, or if they're asking you to send things via friends and family, vet them so so so carefully, because chances are you're walking into a scam. Don't just repost things without carefully checking! If you aren't in a position to check carefully, better safe than sorry: don't repost it! Don't let these scams spread.

Pro tip: If a blog is dash only, so you can't view their archive to see when their first post was made, and you're on desktop, you can just open the blog in its dashboard view, then click 'end' on your keyboard over and over until all their posts are loaded. Usually if it's a spam blog, you'll only need to click 'end' 5-6 times, sometimes a bit more, since they only post just enough times to give the appearance they're active, then there's absolutely nothing after that.

If you want more proof someone is a scammer, you can look at the currency they use their post (or the currency shown in the vet bill), then hover over the paypal link and inspect the part of the url that says 'country.x=AA'. The 'AA' is the abbreviation for the country your money is going to! If that country doesn't match the country of the currency shown in the post, it's a scam! Example: someone's post says '$' for USD/CAD dollars, but the country in their paypal link is 'PH', which stands for Philippines, where they use Philippine pesos, not dollars!

Also keep in mind that these are not bots! There is a real person behind these accounts. They have replied to people who wanted to confirm they were real, but their intentions are still to scam you, they just know it looks better if they reply.

Stay safe!!

Edit:

Updating this post to announce the scammer's made more blogs, and they're probably gonna keep doing it! Here's the list so far. This isn't up to date btw, go to @scamarchive and check their pinned post for the most recent detected blogs

turncoatrune, starlightdisc, xxmy, wxnt, eeyore-pg, coatedpeanbean, starrypanelstars, panelstars, scyllostyle, the-nonbinary-witch, aash-aash, leechness, ash-aahs, commandobutch, lovely-pages, pagefive-to-six, reconnecteed, five-and-fourty, stepsapphic, farmer-butch0, health-pages, turnersapphic, lxve, march-pls-be-good, emberful, imse7en, kassidymaygemz, kassidymaydream, dreamingkassidy, kasdream, live-march, confusedskulll, march-lives, criticaltuesday, quicksilvah, wrldy, quicksilveey, the-stucked-pan, flurrbum, o345, nxce, thls, hokkairi, sykdykee, furrtasticbu, bumfurry, supsense, wickdart, the90sbest

Keep in mind you may not receive an ask like the above ones. You may get something simpler like this, instead:

Most of these are cats, but there's been dogs and even people too.

If you wanna get even more info on all these accounts, there's an archive of this scammer's pinned posts and asks here, so you can see at a glance how similar they all are. You can also see a comprehensive list of scammer red flags specifically for tumblr here!

And lastly, you can report the scams using 'report something else' > 'unlawful uses or content' > 'phishing'

[minhosblr]

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[saizun]

i hate people who abuse goodness. idk which of all these Gaza messages are real and which are scammer, and also i am disgusted by the way they trick people by using their sick or crippled animals on tiktok or somewhere.

[redwinterroses]

posting this just in case any of my followers (especially any reddit newbies) got this ask as well:

Hey. This is a common scam on tumblr dot com. The messages usually follow this script: They apologize for bothering you, ask you to look at their pinned post, and request that you DM or answer privately (a weird request when you're trying to get public attention and assistance.) Usually it's a pet's vet bill, sometimes it's a person who needs help with medical care or rent bills or moving or all the above.

It's a scam. It's always a scam.

100% no one will ever legitimately ask for your help this way. If you look at the actual blog, it only goes back a few weeks at most, it's full of uncurated random stuff (in this case, the entire blog was created in about 10 minutes this morning.) There will be no tags on any posts, the only original posts will be ones about whatever scam they're running.

In the time it's taken me to make this post, the blog has already vanished -- either been taken down by staff or the person chickened out (or got what they wanted.)

Guys, please be careful on this site. There are bad actors who will try to capitalize on your empathy and care for the world. Don't donate to anyone -- person or organization -- without properly vetting them first. Don't give anyone information, personal or financial. Be smart.

Also screw you if you're the kind of person who does this. May you always spill your drink on your keyboard and may your bacon always burn.

[lurks-no-more]

They blocked you it seems. Reported & blocked them.

Hiyaa there! very sorry to bother you but I’m hoping if you’d be so kind to check the pinned post on my blog and maybe give it a little help by boosting/sharing it? I’m so sorry it’s for my cat who struggles to eat because of some ugly rash near his mouth and we need help for his vet visit :(( thank you if you do and I understand if you don’t, appreciate you and stay safe always! Please send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately as I dont want other people to think I’m a spambot or what as I’m also trying to send this to other blogs as I can to ask for help. Hoping you’d consider 😭🙏

Boy, you sure do have interesting priorities. You didn't exist on Tumblr until like 45 minutes ago. Then you spam reblogged from a bunch of random blogs one after the other.

In the middle of that you have your cat. No updates, no details, no other pictures of the cat, and no proof this is indeed your cat at all. And then back to spam reblogging.

Again, when you set up an account like an hour ago.

Gosh, it's almost like you stuffed your blog to make it look as if it were a legitimate! Almost as if you set it up that way on purpose!

That sure sounds like something a pet scammer would do to play on the heartstrings of people who don't know any better. Doesn't it?

Yeah I don't buy this for a second. Bastet sorrows you would exploit her cats and people's goodwill in this way. Hope you grow into a better person than this, pal. Reported and blocked.

TL;DR:

THIS IS A SCAM.

(edit: when I went to block them, turned out the blog was either gone or they blocked me immediately, basically confirming it)

[awildkelkinnie]

My family is still staying in half of the church that wasn’t affected by the bombing because there is nowhere else to stay other than tents. They are limited to one small meal a day and one shower a week. They are sleeping on the floors, but no one can sleep since there is bombing everywhere around them. Even when there is no bombing, they can still hear the loud buzzing sound of the military planes above them, which would keep anyone who hears it awake. Along with everything, My grandma has diabetes and osteoporosis, so she can’t walk. She has to take her insulin medication along with many others; however, she has run out of many of her medications.” Am on my knees requesting for donation. Target $450

Hey guys this is a SCAMMER! WATCH OUT!

And heres the link to the ACTUAL GOFUNDME OF A REAL PALESTINIAN:

[mushroomjar]

I don't like the way you guys talk about Palestinians asking for donations. I don't like it.

I had to see someone make MULTIPLE posts bitching and moaning about how people need to stop sending them asks asking for them to reblog their donation posts, that they'd just be blocking them from now on, and that they didn't care if they were vetted because they still found the act of sending asks to get reblogs on their donation links suspicious, even if they were in a dire situation. They even went as far as to say that they got an ask, deleted it, and then they got another ask from the same person, and accused the person of sending another ask to purposefully "get under their skin"

I don't know man, have you considered that being a victim of ongoing genocide will make you ask for help in whatever way you can? And sometimes that involves sending random blogs asks to see if they can donate or at the very least share your donation links? A Palestinian reaches out to you multiple times because they need help and your response is to whine about getting donation links in your inbox? I wish I had your problems

Also the thing about "getting the exact same ask from the exact same blog multiple times"... uh, duh? First of all, they're probably reaching out to dozens of blogs daily, do you think they're gonna type up a new paragraph for each blog they reach out to? Second of all, maybe they reached out to you multiple times because a. They really really really need the help and b. What, do you think they're gonna see your URL/blog and be like "oh! I already reached out to this blog, I'm not gonna send them another ask"? Or do you think they'll be like "this person has been reblogging other people's donation posts, maybe they'll reblog mine too"?

Like I understand being suspicious about getting sent donation links to your inbox, but literally all you have to do is check if the blog's been vetted by other bloggers? It's as easy as searching for their URL on tumblr sometimes, it literally takes less than a minute or two. And that's what bothers you? That's what you're complaining about? Find a real problem!!!

[llamagoddessofficial]

Yoo hi!!! <33 I know this might come off and im really sorry cause I know this isnt the best time to ask for help but is it okay if you could take a look on the post I pinned for my cat? I pinned it on my blog, if you have an extra time please do check it out. Im terribly sorry, i just dont know what else to do :(( hoping you'd consider to help just by even spreading the word. Please send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately and I hope you're having an amazing day! 🐈

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Scummy scammer. I usually delete these kinds of asks but trying to scam off someone's sick cat is disgusting.

Some advice: if you get unsolicited DMs or asks of people requesting money, wait a few days and search up their user. Someone will have posted about them if they're a scam.

Thank you @kyra45 for your posts!

[seungkwan-s]

got a message from someone pretending to be felix on fb and I’ve honestly spent so much time winding them tf up, offering them to come aboard my ship because i am secretly a pirate with three cats and my real name is actually hugh jass

[andipxndy]

lmao i think @carterkiss blocked me

but PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THEY ARE A SCAMMER

and spread the word because i think quite a few people have reblogged their post (but i'm not sure because i can't really see the notes since i got blocked???)

[professorsta]

Frenchie is a scammer he's a killer he's the best at sewing on the revenge he was the first to create a pyramid scheme he invented fan fiction while lying to the British he believes cats are the devil so he dressed up as one when pillaging his best friend is a drag queen his immediate idea when getting his first ever room was to create a reading nook he suggested breaking the legs and arms off their captives and make them into a table he said the best way to handle things is to bottle it up and never talk about it he's allergic to peanuts but thought he was cursed he became Blackbeard's first mate and immediately tried to say no then offered to throw himself off the boat. His lute got destroyed after season one but he picked up another different instrument and has been plucking away on that throughout the show like a fucking savant. He's not in the church but he will be crossing his heart towards god in dire moments he put flowers in his hair for the calypso party he never stopped gazing at Izzy when he was singing he worked in the service industry and that's how he learned to smooth talk and fly under the radar he sold fake Stede merch to pirates he is either the clumsiest person during the worst of times or the most agile. Everyone said they'd rather have Stede for a captain than the fool shaking his ass at the captives tied to the mass, now he's walking from the wheel shouting directions as the New Captain of the Revenge. He likes buttercream cake 🥹

[ashaleyadams]

I am the real owner of Eeyore. I started a crowdfunding fundraiser for support for my cat's major dental exam to determine if he had cancer or not and Eeyore-pg stole my post and reposted it on Tumblr using their paypal account instead of mine. I have reported their post to Tumblr - please don't donate to this person! They are scammers.

My original post is on Facebook in a group called Vet Corner Angels: Emergency Funding - search for the name Eeyore and you will see it in case anyone needs verification.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

Reminder to report these scam asks by using Report > Report something else > Unlawful Uses of Content > Phishing. This is much more effective than reporting them as bots, as they are a different breed than the spam-followers we've had as of late.

[rainnism]

hey, just letting you know that the cat donation post you reblogged from cantsaynotosleep is a scam. You can check the blog kyra45 for more info as they've been tracking this scammer for a while now. or look up their previous, now-deactivated usernames: hologramconnosseurrs, sleiekkem, ohdelin, michelvv, michevvous, michevvouuz, michevkevv, michelaide, michelainne, seafallsv, bagsofgoldz, stereopillars, pillars-of-stereos, and the most recent one afaik is buffersforever. They send out asks with the exact same wording but with a different name and story about their cat, depending on whose cat donation post from FB they are currently stealing and using. (Last time their cat's name was "Canto", now they've changed it but the paypal account is still the same, since they were impersonating someone on facebook whose name was written in the vet documents that they stole. guess it's hard to make different paypal accounts every time they remake their scam.) Anyway, sorry if this ask gets sent multiple times. Will be going through the reblogs on their posts to get the word around as that seems the most effective way to deter this scammer so far. Please do report them to tumblr if you can or warn others about them.

omfg ty

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