#scammers warning

[miaqc1]

Scammers Warning. ‼️

Since there are a lot of them on Tumblr, here's a post about the scams I know.

Donation for "insulin or medicine." Someone you don't know will subscribe to you and send you an Ask or a DM. They will say they need money for insulin or medicine and leave you a Donation Link. They are scammers and you won't see your cash again if you give it to them.

Fake "Help for Palestine" GoFundMe or PayPal Donation. Same concept as #1. A scammer, sometimes they stole real identities of Palestinian people in need, will leave you a Ask or a DM asking for money to escape Gaza. While there are honest families on Tumblr that need help, many times it's a Scam Trap.

The "fake/tracer artists." Those are artists who will contact you for Commissions. If you buy one, you either will get a Traced Art or nothing at all while the scammer run off with your money. They will always ask you to pay via PayPal Friend & Family so you cannot chargeback. @salibadati is one of them. I lose 100 USD to her for "emergency medical help" in exchange of nothing + more money for other Commissions! Report and block her.

The "Fake E-Check" or "Art Muse" Scam. A so-called "artist" will contract you to do a painting or a wall art with one of your photos/drawings, etc and promise you money in return. They will put you in contact with their "client" on Discord. The client will then send you two e-checks (fake!) via email, ask you to put them in your bank account, then send them back 4/5 of the money via PayPal Friend & Family. You will never see your money again and, when the fake e-checks are refused by your bank, you can be penalized (and getting your account in the red!). I have lost 1.7K CAD (approx 1.2K USD!) to this scam this very week! Don't fall in like I did! The culprits are @rogersgrey7 at Tumblr and Pauldan008 on Discord. Rogers also use @Randomfactalready77 & @seekforbid. Report and block them.

UPDATE 2024-08-06

@rogersgrey7 & @Randomfactalready77 accounts are gone! YAY!

@seekforbid is still up. May be another scammer who do the same trick as Roger. @salibadati is still up but she seem to be inactive. (Except for donation scams?) Her other blog is @stais02.

[chickenhoops]

Sorry for double posting but APPARENTLY those commission scammers have showed up on Tumblr at least for the first time for me.

For those who don’t know what I am talking about, there were/are commission scams going on in Instagram and even places like Artstation where people would pretend to be interested in your work and try to commission a pet or portrait for the sake of trying to get your bank details. Here’s how to (somewhat) sniff them out:

1- They don’t seem to be an average customer/ person that would be involved in your fandom, or has a blank template for an account or don’t even follow you.

2- They ask you to draw a portrait or a pet picture either for themselves or their children/family.

3- They promise to overpay you (in the hundreds) and do not listen to you even if you firmly state the price is cheaper.

4- They are constantly asking for your email name, or private details regarding things like banking details or passwords or other private information others should not know.

5- They try and over reassure you they mean no harm, try to guilt you into giving them the info, or become aggressive over you not giving them what they want.

What should you do if you come across one of these guys? My best advice is to block and report. Sadly these people jump account to account so there isn’t really much to do other than spread this info to prevent artists from being scammed.

[softwaring]

we’re really out here living in an AI dystopian hellscape and this shit has just begun… the future is grim…

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[bitchy-craft]

SCAMMER ALERT

She's at it again

ALL TAROT READERS WATCH OUT. THE GIRL THAT SCAMMED ME @tarotwithavi AND @starryfree FOR HUNDREDS OF EUROS IS AT IT AGAIN UNDER A NEW USERNAME: @ newmememeow

SHE TRIED TO BUY READINGS FROM ME AGAIN, AND GIVEN I HAD AN ICKY FEELING I DECIDED TO CHECK HER PAYPAL DETAILS. HER ADRESS WAS THE EXACT SAME AS THE ACCOUNT SHE SCAMMED ME ON.

Her old user: @recoveringinternetaddict. She has deleted this account by now.

ORIGINAL POSTS ABOUT HER SCAM:

here

here

[xfxiryfoul]

!!BEWARE OF SCAMMER ASKS IN YOUR INBOX INCLUDING THE FISHY PALESTINE ASKS!!

Ever since the #Free Palestine movement, unfortunately some really disgusting folks are using these times as a way to take advantage of people's kindness by pretending to be Palestinian victims and refugees.

If you've been getting these kind of asks in your inbox something along the lines of "Palestine" and a BIG tangent of their life but the blog looks fishy and the profile pic looks stolen? yeah that's too good to be true.

literally no actual person that genuinely needs help is going to directly ask a random person like you in your inbox, a real person that needs help makes a post in general with all of their donation links and never directly asks anyone.

Also majority of the time these scammers will steal real victim's pictures to make it look legit!!! Don't fall for it!!! Donate to actual places and real people!!! PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!

[goreyskeleton]

PSA FOR ALL TUMBLR ARTISTS!!!

On Tumblr there’s these users who will private message you and pretend to be interested in your artwork just so you can tell them your personal information and then steal it from you. It’s usually blank blogs but basically if you provide an alternative way to do an art request that doesn’t involve sharing your private information THEN ITS A SCAM!!! This is the third time I got one of these mfs and the first two times I hadn’t even seen a post informing about the scam. Stay safe gang!!!

[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'

[generallemarc]

If an account you've never interacted with that has a description asking for money follows you, it is a scam.

I don't care how many photos whose source you have no way of verifying it posts. I don't care how many videos with no way of verifying their location, time of recording, or any other context they try to shove in your face. These are scams; all of them. In fact, there's a good chance that any money they get will be used to actively increase the amount of suffering caused by war, given how many scam operations these days are run out of Russia and supported by the Russian government. These are not people-these are bots. If you wouldn't give money to a blog claiming to be a hot single lady who just wants to get to know you after choosing to follow you and you specifically on tumblr.com, don't give money to a blog claiming to be a Gazan in need of help who has chosen to seek this help by following you specifically on tumblr.com, the most irrelevant social media platform this side of Threads that was sold at a billion-dollar loss because that's how few people are on here.

[awesomecooperlove]

🇺🇸💵🤔

[tired-and-unjellied]

Hello, is mariam weirema from Gaza, I have started a campaign to seek help to get rid of the genocide in Gaza, I am reaching out to you with a warm heart so that you can share my post against friends and family to spread the word, and a small donation💰 if you can, Please I am on my knees asking you to help me complete this.

Thanks for your kindness and generosity 🕊🙏🇵🇸

That's likely a scam

They blocked me when I asked if they were verified

It's the same text as known scammer @/zaynabu

Here's the exact difference between the asks: different name, a space removed, and a simple change of words

They also mention a GFM in their tags, but no PayPal (as usual for scammers)

#free gaza#free palestine#gofundme#donations

Also some other minor tells common in the usual scammers

obviously generated url

reblogging a few things directly from the OP about random stuff (Palestinians seem to go directly to the point or reblog other fundraisers?)

They also had AI art, but I've seen at least one fundraiser with one, so...

@kyra45 @anonthescambuster

update: the ai-generated image was stolen off a GFM: (thanks for telling me, anonymous asker!)

[miaqc1]

From this post, scammers to report and block!

@salibadati, @stais02. Same person, Tracer Artist.

@rogersgrey7, @randomfactalready77 & @seekforbid. Same Person, do the "Muse" fake e-check scam.

Also Pauldan008 on Discord. Might be the same person or a accomplice of Rogers.

[sinnabum45]

‼Another scammer‼

@crookedtimetraveldreamer is scamming people by pretending to be a Palestinian woman in Gaza. They are using stolen images to convince people to give them money!

This is the DM they are spreading around! Please be careful if you've seen their message and do NOT donate to them!

Here are screenshots of their pinned post:

Here are the photos that came up when I reversed searched these images:

Be careful and stay safe out there!

[kuttiesstuff]

Warning of Scammers on Tumblr

Everyone, I almost fell victim to a scammer here on Tumblr. Please be careful, when someone with an empty (or almost empty) account who's not following you sends you a message all of a sudden and asks for a commission.

They'll tell you that the commission is for their son / daughter and send you two pictures of their pet. They don't answer any question you ask them about the theme / size / color of the commission and IMMEDIATELY want to pay you several(!) hundred dollars. Then they ask you for your paypal email and your real name and pretend to send you the money.

Right after this a scam email pretending to be from Paypal lands in your spam folder. Do NOT click on the link in that email and delete it immediately.

Ugh, I'm SO mad right now... I almost never get asked for a commission and it sounded too good to be true. And of course it was. 🤬

[fattyfrenchie]

WARNING ABOUT FAKE/SCAM ACCOUNTS

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KEEP PEOPLE SAFE

Hey everyone, it's been a long time since I wanted to make this post. A lot of you are well aware there is a lot of fake/scam accounts, but it really is getting out of hands.

Since the first time I got myself scammed, I elevated my caution when I see someone who follows me and what Tumblr recommends me, because it happens a ton of fake accounts are being put in evidence (also because I'm going to a lot of scam accounts to block them).

So, let me show you some elements that can tell you if you're facing a real or fake account. You'll see, it's not always obvious.

The account/bio

Most of the fake accounts are noticeable as soon as seeing the account and reading:

- lot of impersonal writting

- lake of account personalisation (not always true tho)

- "want to get fatter"

- insist with the words "Dm" and "feeder"

- emojis everywhere

- the vertical descriptions (very noticeable)

- no visible CashApp, Venmo, PayPal name or link, you have to DM them before. Usually, actual people put them on display so you can give tips anytime you want

Here is some examples:

But sometimes, for any reason, they're creative. It's more difficult to see the fake. They name their account with a similar name as the actual person and have an elaborated bio (even if sometimes, you can get easily suspicious). Like here:

Left: fake ; Right: actual person

@gothicccgoddessgemma

The posts

Multiple signs on the posts can tell you you're facing a fake account:

- the caption: very impersonal. It's more a description of the pic than sharing what they actually felt when taking the pic.

- most of the times, they'll insist about getting fatter and a feeder. Some accounts tell it in every single post!

- again, no CashApp, Venmo, PayPal, etc. Some people also don't have any of them, but they're not telling you to DM for money

- tags: tons of them. From all the blogs I'm following (around 900), most of them don't have that much tags and again they're made about the situation on the pic. Here, it's always the same tags. Also, for some reason, 99% of fake accounts have the tag "looking for a feeder". Not that actual accounts don't have it, but be aware if you see it. There is also the "a3o" tag. Dunno what this is but suspicious.

Follows/Reblogs

Fake accounts are sometimes following and reblogging each others (making it easier to report/block them lol).

"kelllijelllibellli" was a fake account of "kellijellibelli" (note the resemblance). They're following the same pattern!

Despite of all this, it's not always obvious this is a fake account, and still, even if you're not sure, you can feel it.

Take an example. Lately, I was following @fatvalentina. I was oblivious until I made a research with one of the pic posted on Tumblr. I fell on a Reddit account of the actual Valentina who claimed her Tumblr account got banned and a scam appeared.

Plus, her linktr.ee doesn't mention any Tumblr account (link on her Reddit account).

Conclusion: @fatvalentina is NOT the real Valentina.

Almost 5 000 people (me included) are liking, reblogging, putting this account in evidence when this is a fake account. They're scamming people, maybe ask money, etc.

Be aware with who is following you and what Tumblr shows you. It might be a fake account. Here is a list of fake accounts I blocked through the time.

If you have any hesitation about if it's a real or a fake account, you can DM me so I could tell you.

Thanks for your attention. Keep yourself safe! 🫶🏻

[bitchy-craft]

SCAMMER ALERT

known victims

As most of you know by now due to a multitude of posts that have been made about this person by different readers, @ recoveringinternetaddict is a scammer that has been bringing many tarot readers in financial trouble.

As of now the known victims of this person have been @bitchy-craft (me), @tarotwithavi and @starryfree.

We all have made posts about this person, but I still find it important to make another post about it, because this person is still charging back more, and will most likely continue to do so for as long as she can. Her card issuer, who decides on who wins all the cases has been approving her as the rightful winner the whole time.

I hate asking for help, but the amount she has taken from me keeps piling up, becoming more and more to handle. If anyone had been thinking about buying a reading from me, please do it now; I could really use the help.

Previous post about @ recoveringinternetaddict:

@bitchy-craft : link

@tarotwithavi : link

@starryfree : link

If anyone else has been scammed by this person, please reach out to us or make a post of your own to keep spreading awareness. I will then be able to add you to this list if you wish.