#GFM scam

[witchywitchy]

Hello, I'm from Gaza City because of the war,my house was destroyed. We lost everything,my family and I did not have anything left. We left our homes in search of a safe place and we were displaced three  times to different places to survive, but unfortunately there's no safe place in Gaza. My mother is very sick and she's a kidney failure patient in need of treatment outside. She suffers from LS. Help me and my family to survive. Please, your small donation can make a huge difference. A friend outside Gaza has come in to help me run the donation program so that my mother can be evacuated. My friend Mr. Fred Odhiambo is receiving the donations on our behalf to help us organise how to evaluate Gaza in the next four days

More scammers. Please don't donate nor reblog their GFMs.

#y'all are disgusting #scammer alert #scammers #tumblr scam #GFM scam #gaza scam #scammer #scam alert

[james-silvercat]

Hello there! My family needs to leave Gaza out of necessity . I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer Differentiate between reality and a dream.Thank you for taking your efforts and time in reading my plea. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in this place,never expected to find myself in this situation. Because of this horrible situation I have decided to come before you guys for a financial support so that I can evacuate my family from this hell that we are into.The funds will be strictly used for the evacuation . I will personally bear any additional expenses incurred.Your support will make a significant difference in alleviating the suffering of my family ,We urgently need any kind of support before it is to late. As time ticking away translates to lives lost in Gaza I'm here and ready to answer any questions or concerns you may have.Kindly reach out and connect with me

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#i talked for a few minutes with the person who sent this one #they don't seem to be a scam like the previous #their gfm is like 2/3 of their goal #the link is in their pinned #good luck lad

[flamingpen18]

Scammers Are Scum

I am fed up with scammers sending me PMs and following me every time I post my #GoFundMe link. What is wrong with these accounts? I am as broke as a joke with no hope. My wallet is so empty, I can't even afford moths to fill it. What do they think they are going to get from me? Idiots!

#scammers #scam #scamming #scum #GFM #go fund me #helly-watermelonsmellinfellon #gofundme

[intobarbarians]

doesn’t gfm have a year long return money policy or something? i understand the concerns about being scammed but donating money to a fundraiser seems pretty low risk.

#i’m not encouraging giving to scams or not checking into fundraisers #just that when you’re giving a small amount of money through something like gfm #where the person getting the money won’t see your payment info directly #it’s okay to take a risk. if it was a scam then that’s on the scammer not you

[gnetophyte]

One of your prior posts referencing artist bio by Anna Dakota came on my dash. I can’t find posts talking about this, but is a similar phenomenon related to aid-seeking posts being like “Help a queer trans POC afford food this month!” Because…bestie I would help anyway without knowing any of that...? I’m concerned with making sure you’re real and not a bot/scam, not with whether you deserve food to eat because you are the right identity? Does this make sense? It comes off so strange to me?

no, i see the point you’re making, but i dont think it’s related.

anna daliza’s piece is specifically focused on the pressures of commidified identity politics in the art world; in which artists’ identities take precedence over their work, and thus artists themselves are judged and consumed as art pieces.

the phenomenon you’re referring to is also related to the rise of micro-identity labels as a way to signal certain moral or political messages, but my point (and, i think, daliza’s point) was really more about the structures of power and consumption that put this pressure on artists. there’s a huge institutional aspect to art criticism, art commerce, and art consumption that forces marginalized artists to sell themselves as tokens- i don’t think those same institutional pressures exist in the chaotic landscape of tumblr gofundmes.

[neechees]

I am putting out a warning for the blog @/blktransdyke for very likely being a scammer, and is/was the same person behind the now deactivated blog @/raisedeyebrowemojii (who is also very likely a scammer) for the following reasons:

Usage of a very common story one particular scammer constantly reuses across multiple blogs (which i've talked about here before)

Several typical scammer red flags: Their blog has only existed since April 2023, and they started asking for money immediately. The blog only posted for the month of April and then did not post for months only to come back in January 2024, and start asking for money again

Their blog is sparse of anything denoting a personality, personal interests, friendly interactions with mutuals or followers, aesthetic choices and/or blog customization, and the only thing they reblog is also mentioned in their bio, thus indicating a falsified persona for a scam blog. (Ex: they say they are a lesbian, and so have a few posts about lesbianism, and the rest of the posts are almost exclusively fundraising posts)

Inconsistent information

Suspicious behavior on twitter, which was also noted and called out on twitter

Claiming to be homeless, but apparently rejected the non-monetary aid from another user who offered to house them

Claims to be "Indigenous" but then misuses the terminology of their alleged tribe (thus likely indicating racefaking for a scam persona)

No proof of their claims

Posting the same personal information as two other suspicious accounts while call three claim to be different people (& this is connected to the raisedeyebrowemojii blog)

& you know me, I always come with screenshots and proof. Image descriptions will be available in Alt text. (& please bear with me, some screenshots lead to imgur due to tumblr limiting images to 10).

First off, the suspicious story that is often reused by one particular scammer:

There's a scammer on here that ALWAYS uses the same story of:

Claiming to be trans,

claiming to be homeless,

Says they are homeless because they were/are being kicked out by a bigoted/homophobic/transphobic parent

Shows a screenshot of a IM or text message correspondence between them, and their alleged parent, where the parent is being abusive, and the messages always very concisely, very conveniently mention what is happening

Usually says they are disabled in some way (though before they would usually claim to be autistic)

The blktransdyke blog has all five of these things.

Im putting the rest under the cut because this is gunna get long, buckle in.

Secondly, inconsistent information, rejecting non-monetary aid, & suspicious Twitter activity (& this is also connected to the creation date of their tumblr account, which you'll see in a moment):

The blog blktransdyke uses two methods of recieving money, gofundme, which is linked on their main page and is run by someone named "Avalon Smith" (& we can assume this is the name they prefer to go by, because they have the tag "avalon speaks" on their blog), and this gofundme account says its based in York, Ontario. And the second is paypal, which uses a different name, which is "Ashton Jones" & the paypal url of "/ashtonjonesy". Below, the first screenshot on the very left, is a screenshot of the first post they made asking for money on April 14th 2023 while linking to the gofundme account, and then the second screenshot to the right is the blktransdyke's more recent donation post asking for money to be sent to the ashtonjonesy paypal account, and then here is a link to a screenshot of the gfm run by "Avalon Smith".

The consistencies are odd: and while one might think that "Ashton Jones" is an older name or a dead name, but if you search up "ashtonjonesy" in a search engine, you get two results: one leads to a post made by a now deleted twitter/X account with the url "blktransdyke" while using that same paypal (so we can assume this is the same person from twitter/X) and the second is ANOTHER twitter account, still up, that is completely different, also using the twitter url that is the same as the paypal username (/ashtonjonesy) who also claims to be homeless & kicked out by a transphobic parent, but says they have different pronouns than blktransdyke & seems to be transmasc, not a binary trans lesbian that blktransdyke claims to be. Below is screenshots of that.

But what's more troubling: the second twitter account @/ashtonjonesy on twitter/X says that they were 24 years old as of July 2021, while blktransdyke claims that they are 21 as of January 2024. So this can't be the same person using different names and twitter accounts, and yet curiously both are using the exact same story (both claim they are trans, homeless, and disabled & using a wheelchair), and both use the exact same paypals, while are apparently two completely different people. And again, we know that there is a scammer who repeatedly reuses the exact same story details across various accounts

And then, more concerning, that if you search up "blktransdyke" on twitter, while the original posts by the account are gone due to the account being deleted, you get results of various Twitter/X users retweeting the account blktransdyke's post, which was them asking for money. The bottom screenshots are related to the next point: highlighted in yellow you can see someone offering blktransdyke a place to stay, and they live in the same province, and the second screenshot, highlighted in blue you can see that on April 12th 2023, a twitter user accused them of being a scam. We can assume the blktransdyke account wasn't taken down yet that day due to this user encouraging other users to report them.

Recent tumblr creation date:

The oldest and first post made by the blog blktransdyke on tumblr was posted on April 14th, 2023. And as you can see, that was two days after the blktransdyke twitter/X account was accused of scamming. So the blktransdyke twitter account was accused of scamming, then was either deleted or self deactivated, and then the blktransdyke tumblr account showed up immediately after that while using the exact same paypal and story. Which brings us to the other half, which is

Rejecting aid

On this screenshot we can see in a retweet of what the original blktransdyke twitted/X account originally said in the post, and that on August 22nd 2022, they claimed they were still homeless, so apparently they didn't take up the person in Toronto who was literally offering them a place to stay on September 2nd, 2022 (which you can see in the screenshot above, on the second last tweet result to the right).

Claims of Indigeneity & inaccurate terminology:

This one is more minor compared to the other evidence listed here, but in blktransdyke's bio, they claim to be "Inuit" & "Afro-Indigenous": the problem here is that "Inuit" is the plural form, its uncommon that Inuit refer to themselves as this in the singular pronoun because it is grammatically incorrect and an actual Inuk would know that, and instead will use "Inuk" to refer to themselves, but blktransdyke says they are "Inuit". So this terminology is inaccurate coming from a person claiming to be "Indigenous". & just in case they change it, here is a screenshot if their current profile description. Moving on,

Posting the same information as another blog

This is where things get more wild. I have reason to believe that the now deleted blog @/raisedeyebrowemojii ("Jay") is and was a scammer who befriended multiple people to gain trust, and that blktransdyke is the same person as them due to the information that both blogs posted. A couple things to note here is that 1. Raisedeyebrowemojii claimed that they were suffering due to a terminal kidney disease, 2. ALSO stated that she was escaping an abusive situation, was a lesbian, was homeless, and was victimized by a homophobic/transphobic parent, and 3. Had not posted anything since June 2023, before eventually being deactivated. Some of the users "Jay" befriended worried that she may have died due to this apparent kidney disease (which you can find in the tumblr search if you look up that tumblr username). Now, I can't find any paypal that "Jay" posted, but they DID post several other links allegedly that were being used for their donation posts

In this post, graciously saved on webarchive for your viewing pleasure, on May 16th 2023, @/raisedeyebrowemojii claimed that they needed a mattress, and also linked a patreon for allegedly their "best friends'" and "caregiver's" cat, named Trouble 📌. Put a pin in that, we'll come back to it. Below is a screenshot of that post where they linked the patreon. Notice that it's a brown, striped tabby cat. And here is the patreon link (which is still up) that the @/raisedeyebrowemojii blog linked for their "best friend's cat" that was apparently meant to be used to fundraise for their day to day life bills. It doesn't have a lot of patrons or followers. Below is a screenshot of the link I gave for webarchive talking about fundraising for the mattress, and the cat patreon.

Also note, that neither this post by raisedeyebrowemojii nor in the patreon does it link to any other site for content on "Trouble the cat". It vaguely mentions a private Facebook page, but doesn't give any links.

And the blog @/blktransdyke posted this video as well as THIS video, and in both videos, they claim that this brown, striped, tabby cat is their "best friend's cat" 📌. Below are screenshots showing its the same cat, including the same black and yellow blanket.

So both the blogs @/raisedeyebrowemojii AND @/blktransdyke posted a cat that looks very similar: it's brown, a tabby, and striped, and both said that this cat was their "best friend's", and raisedeyebrowemojii said that this cat's name was "Trouble" & referred to them as "Trouble the Cat" in the linked Patreon allegedly belonging to their "best friend". Except here's the bigger problem.

Trouble the Cat is already an existing open, publicly available facebook page with 27K likes and 42K+ followers, and it has its own YouTube page, tiktok account, and Instagram. And if you look at the far top right video on the second screenshot showing the youtube channel, it's the exact same video that appears on the blktransdyke tumblr page. It's the exact same brown, striped tabby cat, in the exact same grooming position, on the same black and yellow blanket, with the same thumbnail, and the exact same caption.

So both Raisedeyebrowemojii AND blktransdyke posted the exact same cat that allegedly belongs to their "best friend", and both of them claim to be homeless, trans, disabled, and being kicked out by a transphobic parent.

& if you go to the links, the official trouble the cat's first instagram post was made on December 23rd 2022, its oldest youtube video was posted on December 23rd 2022, and the facebook says it was made on March 30th, 2021, HOWEVER, the account says they've been active since 2008, but made a post on November 15th, 2023 that said they'd been hacked and made a NEW account, and furthermore, on November 7th 2023, they ALSO made a post saying that multiple other accounts were trying to impersonate them. So, side note, this account could have been hacked by the scammer.

The raisedeyebrowemojii linked that cat patreon on May 17th, 2023, and the oldest video that the blktransdyke posts of that cat is on January 6th, 2024. Both therefore, could have plausibly and likely did, steal these cat videos because all accounts of the troublethecat social media accounts existed BEFORE either raisedeyebrowemoji OR blktransdyke posted them. I find it highly unlikely that both of these blogs had the exact same "best friend".

And if this was true and that this really WAS raisedeyebrowemojii's "best friend" and their cat, then why didn't raisedeyebrowemojii blog link to the other official troublethecat social media accounts, especially since they were so popular, and they claimed they were using this patreon for fundraising for bills? And why didn't the official social media accounts ever say anything about raisedeyebrowemojii's patreon if they were "best friends" trying to fundraise? Surely, an account with 42K followers would have more than a few willing patrons that could have helped their alleged situation.

Therefore, neither raisedeyebrowemojii OR blktransdyke are actually affiliated with this highly popular social media account of "Trouble the Cat" and BOTH of them stole from this account to scam, and both accounts wrre/are run by the same person.

#long post #donation scam #scam #donation scammer #justin's scam list

[mangocheesecakes]

Hello there! My large Gaza family is filled with love and warmth, and losing them is a tremendous loss. I appreciate your efforts and time in reading my plea. I never expected to find myself in this situation.It is incredibly challenging to navigate these circumstances as an independent woman proud of her financial independence, finding herself in this dire situation.I understand the value of every donation and the effort behind it. I assure you that all funds will be strictly used for the evacuation of my sisters and my parents. I will personally bear any additional expenses incurred.Your support will make a significant difference in alleviating the suffering of my family and ensuring that my sisters and my parents receive the care they urgently need. As time ticking away translates to lives lost in Gaza I'm here and ready to answer any questions or concerns you may have. Don't hesitate to reach out and connect with me

Scammer using the paypal name 'Asnet Wangila'. Here is Taher Abu Aqlain's gfm, which @morgan-hamed stole their photo from:

Please share and donate to Taher's gfm instead and warn other users not to fall for @morgan-hamed's scam.

#donation scam #donation scam updates #morgan-hamed #asnet-dauod55

[fairuzfan]

sorry if this is a dumb question but if internet in gaza is really spotty, how are people getting thei funds from gofundme's? I want to donated to them but I'm wary of scams or if there are other better ways to get funds to people directly

Well that's why we donate esims! The spotty internet is mostly in reference to us contacting them because they have to preserve their battery more than anything. Finding a place to charge is quite difficult these days. But also GFMs are sometimes run by family or friends outside of Gaza and they can say "it's ok we have the money we will drop it in xyz account" for if people in Gaza want to buy things.

[sergle]

Big pharma can suck my CHUNGUS the way the medical system/insurance is such a fucking nightmare scam. You deserve to cease and De-tits, it’s ok to re-open a gfm because you didn’t have an accurate estimate/were given too wide a price range

CEASE AND DE-TITS!! yeah like. tbh, I'm still completely shocked that the price is so inflated. I wish I'd had an accurate estimate the first time around. now it lowkey just feels like I lied to ppl on the original gfm

#sergle answers

[feluka]

can someone help me figure out something? as far as i know, it's impossible to set up a gofundme in this entire region, and the only way to start a campaign is to contact someone abroad to set up the campaign for you and then send you the money themselves.

so if someone is claiming to be in gaza and trying to flee it, but the gfm campaign says it's organized by [name of person who is claiming to be in gaza and trying to flee it], does that mean it's a guaranteed scam? or is there some way to set up a gfm campaign from gaza that i don't know about?

#i want to be very very careful before calling any campaign into question.

[punkitt-is-here]

the GFM fvkvrodani posted was checked by a Palestinian and it's probably a scam

Thank you!

#my posts #asks

[witchywitchy]

I've heard there's a scame going around trying to profit off of the Palestinian victims by acting as a fake GoFundMe request that gets sent to people's asks and DM's. Do you know if that's true? How do we recognize them? I don't want to help scammers (especially those profiting off of a genocide), but I don't want to deny sharing people's real GFM's, either :/ thank you!!

Yes, unfortunately a lot of scammers use this genocide to scam people out of their money and it's beyond sickening.

1) Reblog GFMs that have been checked and confirmed to be legit by Palestinian creators on this platform. They do magnificent work. I personally learnt about this from @el-shab-hussein who spread awareness about this issue before and constantly post and reblog legit GFMs (They have a tag on their blog called scam alert with various usernames listed as scammers.)

I also follow @ibtisams and @fairuzfan who always post and reblog ways to donate for Palestine and a lot of helpful resources. You should definitely check them all out and boost the donation links on their accounts. They do massive work on this platform and have helped Palestinians receive aid and helped Palestinians reach their goals on GFMs.

2) Usually these scammers use the exact same tone in their asks, and I usually just search on Tumblr for an example "Evacuate Gaza scam" or if it's not Palestine-related, I look up the main topic of their ask with the word "scam" next to it. You'll find asks with similar if not the exact same wording in the results. A lot of people also post lists of scammers on this platform for you to block or at least recognize the usernames of, because they recreate scam accounts with the same username but for an example with an added number at the end.

3) The accounts are usually only a few days old. Scroll a lot, you'll see that they reblogged quite a few posts, but their first post is usually only like three days old, so don't be fooled by the number of things they reblog.

This is all I can think of right now. I'll make sure to reblog this and add to it if I find anything. But for now, definitely boost GFMs and donation links posted/reblogged by Palestinian creators.

#witchy asks #scam #Palestine

[cuddlybelphie]

Hey! Just wanted to let you know that your last reblog is a scam . They stole the text and photo from a real gofundme but it links to someone else’s paypal :/ my friend called them out on it and immediately got blocked

We found the original gofundme for the family in the photo though:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/URGENT-HELP-me-to-help-my-family-to-evacuate-gaza?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer

Oh, thank you so much for letting me know! I was worried about that, but I just didn't want to question in case what they were saying was true.

If you guys can, please donate or share this GFM to help!

It seems that they're currently half way, so I'm happy they've reached to that point. It'd be great if you guys can help get them to reach their goal.

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #freepalastine🇵🇸 #free palestine 🇵🇸 #free palestine #free gaza #support palestine #pray for palestine #save palestine #palestine #justice for gaza #gaza strip #gaza #donations #donate to palestine #donate to gaza #donate if you can #please donate

[flamingpen18]

WTF Is Wrong With People?

I keep getting scammers sending me PMs. I call them out on their crap. My family and I are dealing with a major crisis, so I have no desire to deal with crooks who prey on the needy.

I responded to another PM warning them that I have no issues reporting scammers. Check out the screenshots.

BTW: the account no longer exists. Looks like I was right again.

#scammer #GFM #scamming #scam #preying on the needy #gofundme

[kittiesncottagecore]

y'all, I keep getting asks from Palestinians asking for donations...

are these legit?

The last time I had an account on here, last summer, I was scammed by someone who donated a bad check to my gfm for bottom surgery, and I had to have my entire checking account restarted.

I'm just... I want to believe that people are better than using a fucking genocide to scam people. But then I remember the last thing, which included someone pretending to be a cop "investigating" the crime.

My sus alarm is dinging.

#personal vent #okay to reblog #palestine

[chiko-akihari]

Hello, I'm from Gaza City because of the war,my house was destroyed. We lost everything,my family and I did not have anything left. We left our homes in search of a safe place and we were displaced three  times to different places to survive, but unfortunately there's no safe place in Gaza. My mother is very sick and she's a kidney failure patient in need of treatment outside. She suffers from LS. Help me and my family to survive. Please, your small donation can make a huge difference. A friend outside Gaza has come in to help me run the donation program so that my mother can be evacuated.

Donation link is available on my pinned post

Instead of e-begging and scamming people with a 3 day old tumblr account and an ongoing genocide try to actually do something meaningful in your life for once

For people interested in helping, vetted gfms can be found here:

Operation Olive Branch Google Sheets

Ottawa4Palestine Google Sheets

It's easy for scammers to play into people's emotions, please be extra careful when receiving asks/questions like this

#Ive received these a handful of times #might as well try to spread awareness about it #genuinely vile to see scam asks #I'm sure one of them one day might be legit #but 99/100 it's scammers reblogging 3 posts and start to yell