#fedex scam

[beansowo7]

IDK IF ANYONE ELSE IS EXPERIENCING THIS BUT BUT-

Just wanna mention, all my favorite blogs are being taken over by scam ‘Amazon’ or ‘Fedex’ or some sort of work for hire accounts.

Please be careful, don’t fall for the scams and don’t click on any of it. and I hope and pray their original accounts come back eventually. ❤️✨

[batcavescolony]

Why do I keep seeing people advertising FedEx jobs in Batman tags? It's probably a scam but how is this a good idea for spreading this? It's TUMBLR, we're not profitable here. And why Batman tags?

[keeganditty]

Jesus fuck I think I've reported 10 scam work from home posts within the past hour at least

[samsayswho]

Don't click the links of any FedEx home job opening comments on this website. They seem to be everywhere

[thatofabeavers]

what is with all of these "hiring" posts

they're all the same listing by various diff people

not even reblogged

just reposted

[vampirebiter]

i have work tomorrow im about to throw myself into the sea

[imaginmatrix]

I ordered something ultra rare that I’ve been looking for for a decade (pjo related) and I saw it pop up and snatched it quick, but I’m SO nervous I got scammed 😅 (not that I would mind TOO much because I’d been thinking of donating to the seller anyway if someone else had bought it first because they seem to have fallen on hard times so it’s just like “clearly you needed the money”)

But I’m so anxious because I haven’t gotten a tracking number but they said it’s out for delivery so I’m like… will I have this super cool dream item by the time I get home today or is it just a ruse and they’ll come back tomorrow with “huh it says it was delayed/couldn’t be delivered” and then ghost me?????

[zinkyzoogle]

I really need to stop looking at the "For You" section on this website when my following feed is moving too slowly

[kairory]

Hey I just wanted to acknowledge this recent Tumblr scam that's been surfacing around almost everywhere atp

It's the FedEx/Amazon/whatever job scam. You'll see these normal looking Tumblr accounts that are promoting working at some popular company with good benefits specifically from home. They pay you well and they want to hire those in a vulnerable state for the good of them/j. This is an example of one of these scammers:

The scammer wants to make you feel acknowledged and wants you to feel like they're a nice and considerate person that really wants to employ you!

But then you realize that no company would post on Tumbler in such a non professional manner (i.e formal language and more info on the matter) and even if they would they wouldn't use a Tumblr without their company name and with an image of a duck..

I dug a little deeper into this account specifically because I couldn't find the other one I've been getting on my feed (all I know is that it has a doofenschmirtz profile picture) and noticed a pattern in their posting. They post a meme and then post themselves asking for you to work for them:

And everytime they post asking for someone to work for them they just copy paste it except for the couple times where they specificy that it is for USA only.

This is a bot trained to avoid getting spotted as a bot by posting memes and then posting their scams. Not only that but their username seems to be artificially generated.

They also use almost the exact same tags as in their meme posts because you're probably already following one or more of them, which makes it more probable for them to appear on your feed and potentially trick you.

I also clicked on the link that have listed (DONT DO THIS WITH RANDOM LINKS YOU SEE ON THE INTERNET!!) to see where they'd take you.

Ah, yes, totally real website... I'm joking of course. They're not taking you straight to their info page because they don't have an actual info page. They just want to lure you deeper and deeper till you get a virus. Or, there is something much more deeper at play.

I didn't delve in more because I didn't want anything malicious to enter my phone but I've seen similar things to this before; people hire you for a popular company and then ask you to take boxes for them and ship them someplace else.

They do this by pretending to be the company, for example Amazon, and scam someone into buying something from them wether that be through a fake site or a sketchy ad (Just to note they might be pretending to be an entire other company than the one you believe they are) then they ask for something like money, gift cards, etc and that the victim mails it to "Them". But instead of the company it's the person hired as their "Mule" that receives the package and then sends it off to some other country believing it's a buyer from Amazon.

Why do they need a mule? Because most likely they're from a different country if not continent, but these days many people are suspicious if Amazon from America wants their victim to send it to a different country. So to solve that problem they have a mule. Or the scammers already are in the USA but don't want the packages sent directly into their base in case someone calls the cops on them, so they hire a mule to take the hit.

All in all, just report these accounts if you see them and spread awareness to everyone!!!

[yhowdy]

Anyone getting fedex employment offerings (posts) on their for you pages that are totally legit and not a scam?

[chromosoid]

FedEx can lick my hemorrhoid

[andie-platonically]

fellow aspecs - beware of scams

ive seen a number of fake job scams spamming the asexual, aromantic, and aroace tags, sometimes purporting to be FedEx or Amazon. These are scams. Do not click their links. Do not give away personal information.

^^ here is an example of what I’m talking about. Once again, this is not real. If you see one of these posts, report it as spam. i have probably reported about a dozen of these in the past day or so.

in general, i would be very suspicious of job opportunities that are posted to tumblr, especially under accounts with generic urls/pfps. don’t click random links. check the official company website for job postings.

@staff didnt do anything about the porn bots spamming our tags, and I have my doubts that they’ll do anything about scams targeting our community. probably because they’re too busy banning trans women without cause. stay safe everyone!

[azealot]

Dungeon Express

Okay so basically this scam popped into my feed where this guy stole tags from a random Dungeon Meshi post in order to get it into the feeds of random Dungeon Meshi fans. (It stole tags from this post if you were curious.) It was advertising some fake FedEx job opening, which inspired me to draw Falin as a FedEx employee.

RIP to my initial upload. I reblogged the scammer's post when uploading, so when that went down my post went down with it.

[ronithesnail]

Im not the only one whos noticed the insane amount of spam bots taking over the dungeon meshi tags with their stupid fedex scam ads right?

[stealingyourbones]

Reminder that if you see any of those scam Amazon or FedEx job applications on tumblr to report the post for spam <3

[andresmounts2]

Hey tumblr.

Hey cheeky tumblr staff.

Could you maybe do us a favor and DELETE the bots advertising for FedEx jobs in the queer tags? Could you pretty please, with a cherry on top?

Could you stop letting scam bots treat the marginalized community that is queer people like this is LinkedIn? Please.