#don't have a paypal anyway but still post in case anyone falls prey

[danwhobrowses]

Hi. I saw you interacted with a trending tumblr post, and I want to give you a heads-up that there is a pet medical bill scammer who is targeting people who interact with these posts. Their current urls are @lxve, @imse7en, and @march-pls-be-good. This scammer tends to cold-message people they find in trending posts, with a request to reblog their pinned post - a fundraiser that has pictures they stole from someone else, with a paypal whose thru-link leads to "PH" (Philippines), and a request for people to only send through Paypal's unprotected friends and family option. These blogs are also mere hours or days old. If you receive an ask similar to this:

“Hi! I hope you’re doing well and safe! Just wanted to ask if you dont mind, can I ask help for my dog’s current situation please? We really need an urgent help, reblogging/boosting it would definitely us a ton! I pinned the post on my blog, hope you’d consider even though I know this might come really strange, im sorry for being so desperate 😭😭 pls send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately 🙏🙏”

It is most certainly a scam. For a full psa on the scammer, there is a post here. There is a full list of scammer red flags unique to tumblr here. Someone is tracking the scammer's new blogs on a dedicated blog here. That's all. Have a lovely day.

I wouldn't send paypal stuff to strangers anyway but good to know, replying mainly so nobody else gets caught out

Scammers are indeed finding new ways to try and trick people, one impersonated my great aunt on facebook asking me to sign up to some weird religious page I'd have to pay into, the reluctance to take a polite No was the final tell that it was a hack.