#donation fraud

[tryingto-survivethis]

After months of bots begging for money just got this message. Nature is healing 🥰

[safije]

As native Gazans, the plight of my family weighs heavily on my heart. Trapped in our beloved city of Rafah, they sought refuge there after my grandmother's cancer diagnosis necessitated treatment unavailable elsewhere. However, the encroaching presence of a militant force has turned our once vibrant home into a battleground. Hindered by my grandmother's frail health, fleeing was not an option. Now, they are ensnared atop an apartment building overrun by militia, surrounded by danger and uncertainty. My aunts, both battling illness and injuries, along with my young cousins, are trapped in a nightmare. As a fellow Gazan and well-wishers, I implore you to extend your compassion and aid. Please, help us bring my family to safety amidst this turmoil.

Consider extending your support to my family during this hour of darkness.

Watch out guys, here's another scammer pretending to be Gazan.

This one also has a Kenyan name on their PayPal account like the last one. You guys don't even try to seem like an actual Palestinian do you?

[drmprop]

Broke a confidence just to please your ego - Sex Pistols 

[ohmuqueen]

Here are the details on how to donate supplies that will go directly in aid trucks going to Gaza from user @/mirna_elhelbawi on instagram, the same person who is behind sending donated esims to Gaza

Instructions on how to make a donation from this comment by user @/yaqin_a_ on instagram:

worked for me from Canada. Here are the steps you can take: 1. Switch language to your preferred language using the globe icon in top left corner of the home page 2. Choose donation type 3. Input the quantity of the donation 4. Add to cart using orange cart button (can add multiple donation types) 5. Press the green “Donate Now” button 6. Scroll down in the cart to fill in personal information 7. Check the “I’m not a robot” box and complete the prompt 8. Press green “Donate Now” button which will take you to fill in your payment info. You can use VISA or Mastercard. My Mastercard blocked the transaction the first time but I authorized it and tried again and it worked

[originalleftist]

Senator Lindsey Graham once famously said (presumably before he sold his soul) that if Republicans nominated Trump, they would be destroyed, and they would deserve it.

He was right.

I say now: if America allows Trump to regain power, it will be destroyed.

And it will deserve it.

[bitchy-peachy]

BOT SPAM AND FAKE PALESTINE DONATION ASKS.

All of these followed me at once at the exact same time as money donation "Palestine" blogs in my ask.

They spam followed me all at once when the asks showed up.

They operate between 9 pm to 9am Pacific Standard time.

That's when they all go on an ask sending overboard, like random posts, post nothing, sometimes have one post linking to a paid po/rn content blog or a PayPal or go fund me for someone of a totally different name with a stolen verification. I have started blocking all money asks since then. I won't post it nor flood the Free Palestine tags with scammers or will reblog them for my followers to see because I don't want them falling for scams.

Most are between 2 to 5 days old and use stolen pictures to appear like a genuine account.

If these bots have their "following" showing, they are almost all exclusively follow lgbtqia or political blogs to see who they can scam (a lot of them follow the same accounts, including mine no matter how much I block)

Last night my account was of 2072 verified real followers. This morning it jumped to 2101 and all new followers were these bots.

All spam/scam bots that I've reported to @support

Everyone, if you see this kinda activity over ask in your follows report and block.

They're riding on the Free Palestine donations train and even following accounts of minors while having unfiltered nude pics.

Those screenshots are only some of these accounts I've had trying to follow me over these past few days. It's a hoard almost daily and a spam of asks begging for money in the time frame I specified along with the follow spam.

Some try to pass as legitimate blogs when they're obviously not once you truly look at their account.

Going to continue reporting t0 @staff @support @tumblrbot

Careful everyone.

[wollyart]

continuation about themoonbunni: misuse of donations.

original post about psychological manipulation, lying, stalking, gaslighting, and victim blaming sexual assault here.

as someone who was in bunni's situation once, this actually broke my heart and infuriated me when I found out today. When I was with my mother that was beating me and screaming at me and stealing my disability funds, while essentially entrapping me with her via holding my ID and everything hostage, so I couldn't work. I made a gofundme to escape.

it's still active so I'll link it below.

Bunni and his friends at the time had lovely colorful comments about the situation.

keep in mind the BIGGEST PURCHASE was before the gofundme was even made, as you can see by timestamps.

they genuinely attempted to get people to NOT DONATE despite this abuse occurring.

also, my money was saved as much as possible on food and essentials, problem is I had a mother who stole and demanded it lest I become homeless.

so, now I get to show hypocrisy

I will not say this is me saying Bunni doesn't deserve donations. but I'm sick of him acting like he's better when I have this evidence

in 2022 bunni made a gofundme, I even donated because I empathized. he threw the money back at me.

ok.

well, what's he done online since this gofundme?

so people have suspected and called out Bunni for this for a while. and well

uh....I think this says everything I need it to.

calculating this currency to US

....so thats a lot...alone... his gofundme had about 1'300 in donations around this time.

and throughout the year after he's spent....all this.....

Bunni has a job, but why would you ask for donations and then IMMEDIATELY SHOW ALL THIS STUFF YOU BUY? like LITERAL THOUSANDS.

Bunni is apparently blowing money for donations on anime merch and merch in general recently. after also recently asking for donations to something in his room, and donations to escape his abusive home....again. and people aren't happy

if you and your buds get to shame me for asking for shit after losing everything I own to domestic violence? you get to be called out for WASTING MONEY YOU RECENTLY ASKED FOR. you've WELL OVER POSSIBLE SPENT your funds for escape.

this is legit bullshit. hypocrisy af. worse than what MY SPENDING WAS. FOR FUCK SAKE Y'ALL CRITICIZED ME FOR HAVING ICE CREAM I GOT WITH MY FOOD STAMPS.

and yes, bunni is aware of and friends with her, so he's just as fucking guilty.

Bunni can have donations, but people also deserve to be aware.

[1his-is-fine]

Dear,

I am Hatem from Gaza 🍉🌿

I hope you are doing well

I am writing to you with a heart full of hope and gratitude.

My small family (my old mom, my wife and my little daughter) is in great danger due to the ongoing war in Gaza and I am running this campaign to save them to cover the basic daily life for my family and my little daughter which she was born during the ongoing war.

Could you please sharing my donation campaign in your blog ?

This donation campaign has been vetted by: @90-ghost and @el-shab-hussein

Thanks again

‼️‼️‼️

please read and donate if you can 🙏

[tododeku-or-bust]

Hungover and discovered someone stole $300+ from me. I know bad things happen to good people but yo, life, chill on me 😭

[anon7362847598]

"Struggling to pay rent" while you buy arbies and beg for money for cable, now your ass is headed to another state while rent was due and suddenly its an emergency to pay it??? Why the fuck are you even signed up to cable when you can't pay rent????? Where did you get the money for arbies after you begged everyone for 3000 dollars a few days ago??? Congrats to everyone who probably just payed these scam artists to take a vacation. Don't waste your money on these two, I tried to be supportive but this is just disgusting. Using anon because I don't give a fuck. Reported to paypal for good measure!!!

[mudwerks]

(via How to Raise $89 Million in Small Donations, and Make It Disappear - The New York Times)

conservative fraudsters using robocalls to “raise money” for “police and veterans”.

spoiler alert: they kept the money for themselves

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

Yo hi there! I’m very sorry to bother you at this time of the day, just reaching out if you’d be so kind to check the post that I pinned on my blog and maybe give it a little help by boosting/sharing it? it’s for my cat :((( and we need help to get him the dental care he needs. It would really mean the world to me and I understand if you don’t, still appreciate you and stay safe! and btw, please do send me a msg to reply or answer the ask privately instead as I want avoid other blogs to think im a spambot or what, once again im sorry for asking this, praying you’d consider! 🫶🏽🥹

Next time you make a fake donation post, be sure to thoroughly proofread it. Because this in the first paragraph-

-and this in the last paragraph-

-is a surefire giveaway for fraud.

Of course, you are also referring to your cat as a 'he' in this ask but the post has her referred as 'she', so better pick a lane the next time

There is also the fact that your blog was made exactly 3 hours ago despite you trying to mask it by spam reblogging a bunch of popular Nimona posts

Guys, be careful of blogs like @heyits-monday . Report and block them

[badolmen]

Being happy at someone’s misfortune is not something I approve of in my own ethics. Gleefully waiting for someone sliding on a banana peel to trip face first into a shit show of their own making, on the other hand -

[thelittlestspider]

Could you please donate any ammount of money would be helpfull even 1 dollar thats equall 10 sek would help

I tried, but it wouldn't let me.

[jessicatredes]

HELLO LMAO?????

[nando161mando]

Company that had almost $23 billion in profits last year needs you to donate so they can give shoes to those in need