#scam risks

[signode-blog]

Biticode Method - Learn The Truth

Have you seen the below post about the “Biticode Methods” on reputed websites: In recent days this has become a trend by some people to promote their products. Most of these are fake and they are trying to scam innocent people in this way. I would suggest you to be careful and do not be greedy. I have noticed that many people believe the scammers more that people who are trying to save them…

[headlinehorizon]

Don't Fall for the Trap: The Dangers of Engaging with Spam Emails

https://headlinehorizon.com/Tech/Security/657

Discover the risks of responding to spam emails and how to protect yourself from scams and malware. Stay informed and stay safe!

[dragons-hoard-of-fandoms]

You: The Solver is still an active threat and is constantly trying to manipulate Uzi to its whims so it can regain its power and continue destroying the universe

Me, an intellectual: The Solver is Uzi's deadbeat slacker roommate who promised it was only gonna crash at her place until it found a job and keeps saying it's got "big things" planned for the future but all it's done for the last nine months is eat tortilla chips and watch Family Guy on the living room couch

[defsiarte]

New scammer alert! This person is stealing photos from a Filipino influencer to pretend to be a citizen of Gaza seeking abortion care. This is the most disgusting thing I’ve seen on here honestly.

PayPal name: Verian Mumbo

How to identify scammers

[kuijoon]

i lied here’s another one

[nostalgia-tblr]

who can solve my plot/character problem in the sylki con artists au so that i can continue writing it

[noodle-shenaniganery]

I hate that I have to be wary of scams. I hate that I always need to remind myself that people lie. I hate not being able to trust people. I hate lies, I hate dishonesty, and I hate living in a society where they’re practically the default.

[luminolveins]

kinda hope we manage to run the writing prompts guy off this site for his baloney

[gibbearish]

every time i see discourse about fundraisers go by on here im just fully struck with the realization that not a single one of you people have either taken a cybersecurity fraud prevention course or bothered to take one singular second to consider the website youre on. this is the broke bitches website. none of us can afford to fund our mutuals' grocery bills, much less entire evacuation funds, and CERTAINLY not FAKE evacuation funds taking advantage of genocide victims. all this shit abt how people are deliberately choosing not to fund every post that passes their dash because they hate palestinians literally just does the work of actual scammers for them by laying the high-pressure sales tactics groundwork, and the "do you guys have any idea how hard it is to keep coming up with new attention-grabbing fundraiser posts?" ones just ring EXTREMELY hollow because YEAH! YEAH I DO! and so does everyone i follow! and everyone they follow! because all of us are FUCKING BROKE and surviving on crumbs! i just saw one that said "i make sure to keep $40 in my wallet at all times so i can give $20 to any panhandlers i see, this is the same" and its like!! good for you, thats very nice, but like!!! you need need NEED to take a step back and realize that /being able to do that/ is a position of privilege, not the default setting to be a good person. i wont discount that some people do ignore fundraisers specifically because of racism because Of Course, but like. a) yelling at them isnt gonna make them stop, or more accurately yelling at /everyone else/ isnt gonna make those people stop, and b) trying to apply that as a blanket motivation for everyone just. realistically doesnt work. not donating is a nonaction, it is the literal default status, and while in specific situations you can use CONSISTENT absence of SPECIFIC actions to track a person's motivations SOMETIMES, broadly speaking that just. doesnt work.

there are 8 billion people on this planet. most of them will never know you exist. of the ones that do, most will not be able to help you. of the ones that can, most will not be on the broke bitches website passing the same communal $20 around. consider your audience and stop shitting on fellow poor people for having the gall to need to be careful with their money. and if you are genuinely only posting your fundraiser to tumblr, like. im sorry, but you need to anticipate not reaching your goal and prepare accordingly. theres a reason the last big scam scandal people talk about actually getting the money is like. all-or-nothing era, as a website none of us have the funds to make that kind of thing happen anymore or the security to risk it. a fundraiser not meeting its goal on here is not a personal sleight against whoever made it, its just how life goes sometimes. and it's unfair and it sucks and we should help however we can, but. sometimes you just arent able to help someone else, and continuing to feel responsible serves only to torture yourself. and blaming OTHERS serves only to move that guilt from yourself off onto another person. i imagine that has to be where a lot of the vitriol comes from, is people who cant afford to donate more getting pissed at people they see as having the funds but choosing not to share them, but again, sometimes you just are not able to achieve the goals you set out towards, through no fault of the specific parties involved.

people on tumblr choosing to buy groceries rather than potentially donate to a scam are not your enemy and are not the ones facilitating a genocide. we're all victims of the same horrific system, the question is just how that system manifests its influence on each of us. poverty kills just as thoroughly as a bomb. everyone is just doing their best to survive, and as much as we like to pretend that everyone should be a perfect selfless angel that puts others before themselves no matter what, humans are by default a selfish species, and it is a lot easier to say what youd do in theory than actually do it. and there's a reason you have to put on your own oxygen mask before helping the person beside you, youre of no help to anyone if youre too dead to do anything.

[annabelle--cane]

squints. I've been getting a suspicious number of new followers daily for the last week or so, and everyone has seemed like real people from cursory blog checks, but I've also been getting more anonymous asks with links to donation posts than usual. the linked pages look a bit more legit than the usual fare, but not fully legit. hmmm.

[naivety]

not to be an ass but if you're giving so much to fundraisers spread around on tumblr dot com that you're out of money that is a you problem. most are asking for single digit donations or a share for other people to decide if they want to do the same. if they are a scam, make sure you lose money you can stand to lose, and if not, 100 people who can afford to donate $5 each will add up real quick for someone who needs it and will absolutely not be a waste to anybody anywhere. if you have time and energy to research multiple fundraisers yourself, awesome, and if you don't, $1 or $5 or $10 is not going to kill you, unless it is, in which case, you can simply not donate! nobody has a gun to your head. ultimately it is your decision and your judgement call if that's something you can afford to spend, scam or otherwise, vetted yourself or otherwise, as a grown ass adult with functioning free will. it is not that complicated, next question.

[crypticroyals]

Something awful Happened

I was stupid and naive and got scammed on discord. Luckily not too bad but my account is running around without my control and I had to make a temporary Alt account until the staff resolve it.(Sent a ticket now gotta wait)

The scam was aparently a friend's hacked account telling me they had accidentally reported me for fraud and I ended up talking with a scammer who was pretending to be a staff member. Watch out. They're awful and I feel ashamed I fell for it. Luckily I caught on before it got worse but I still got my account hacked out of it.

Anyways I know many friends in servers I shared have tumblers. So! If you have a user in your server, mutual or just member, that is named cryptic_royals than please block them for now or kick them from the servers. I don't want friends getting tricked like I did.

[badolmen]

*biting my arm off*

[renaissancefailmarriage]

just so we're all clear i do check the fundraisers i reblog to make sure they're legitimate. many of them have the verification in the post itself, ie, "verified by [xyz user]" but i do look just in case.

[akkivee]

me, a few days ago: well nagosaka doesn’t have original stories so idk ig they can surprise us without having vaguely manga only story refs :/

me @ me now: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE FIRST RUN HAD COMPLETELY ORIGINAL STORIES WE GOT AN ORIGIN POINT FOR NAGOSAKA AND WEVE EVEN SEEN THOSE STORIES COME BACK AROUND AND GET RESOLVED WE WATCHED ROSASA GET UP ON STAGE AND PERFORM COMEDY TOGETHER IN THE BLOCK PARTY JYUSHI GOT TO STAND UP TO HIS TRAUMA AND HITOYA WAS ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD FROM HIS IN HARMONIOUS COOPERATION BUT YOU KNOW WHOSE ORIGIN STORIES HAVENT CIRCLED BACK AROUND YET REI AND KUUKOU—

[patrocles]

It’s a shock, to see the exact value of a man’s life laid out on a table. Saw his horse in the corral, wouldn’t have left without it. Or them, or me, I’d hazard. So where is he? Who’d you sell him up to?

Didn’t.

Okay. So seeing as we’re weighing up values here, how much for you?

THE ENGLISH - Part Three,  Vultures on the Line