#possible scam?

[sweetiepie08]

Hey I got this comment on one of my fics this morning and it looked pretty sketchy. Anyone know anything about this?

Update: I have reported this as spam, but please keep spreading this to help fellow fanfic authors.

#fanfiction #Ao3 #archive of our own #fanfic problems #sketchy comments #possible bot? #possible scam? #idk

[cchickki]

like this seems very scammy right?

the email from the inbox message and email on their pinned post doesn’t match, the way this is typed seems copy/pasted, and the fact that they just started posting and reblogging three hours ago… 🤔 very suspicious. i’ve seen similar scams going around tumblr for awhile now.

i hope this isn’t someone actually fighting cancer, in that case i’m sorry. they’ve asked the wrong person for help though, considering i am negative almost $100 and have to figure out a way to pay for my dog’s vet appointment tomorrow 😅

#cancer mention #possible scam? #inbox scam #has anyone confirmed this is a scam? #typed in one of their emails and it only brought up Reddit images on Google

[doom-ocean]

Yo for real this video looks CGI'd. I don't know if it's all CG, or just some parts, but this has got to be faked.

#scammers #liars #possible scam? #definite liars though

[voidify333]

Discord scam alert

If you get messages like this from a discord friend’s account, your friend has just become the victim of a phishing scam and the scammer is trying to get you too.

But my friend got his account back within an hour of this conversation, and your friend can get theirs back too.

The MO: using this scare story, the scammer tricks people into changing the email on their account to give the scammer control of the account. Once they have control, they use the hijacked account to send the scam pitch to all the victim’s friends

The motive: to try to get people who have nitro to bite, so the scammer can steal their credit card

Here’s how to keep your account safe and help your friend

DO NOT follow any of the instructions your friend’s account sends you. The scammer will lie to you and give you instructions to hand over control of your account.

DO:

Keep your cool. The scare story is a lie. The scammer has no power to force you to follow their instructions, they only have lies to try to trick you into it.

Ghost the scammer. It’s what I did as soon as I realised this was definitely a scam (I smelled shit immediately because my friend has a totally different typing style, but it would be harder to recognise coming from a random acquaintance), and they didn’t persevere any further after the end of the screenshot. Scammers target the vulnerable and avoid wasting effort on more difficult victims; if you ghost them they will sense you’re not biting and leave you alone.

Contact your friend on another platform if possible, to confirm that it’s not them and let them know they’ve been hacked

Direct your friend to the discord support ticket platform— my friend got his account back in like 30 minutes by sending a “hacked account” ticket here.

If your friend has nitro, make sure they get going on cancelling any compromised payment methods before the scammer can steal their money

Take this as a lesson to avoid repeated passwords and turn on 2FA on all your accounts, especially ones with any payment info attached— even if you think you’re too smart to get scammed, everyone has moments of not paying attention, and that’s what scammers prey on

#scams #scam awareness #discord #psa #idk what to tag this to get the info out #tried to make it as parseable in a stressful situation as possible #edited for some wording but it’s already got 200 notes so I doubt the edit will propagate

[lover-of-skellies]

Heyyyyyyyy guys, I uh

-coughs-

I think I found a possible scam to be on the lookout for

Idk what this person's intentions were, but I found it odd that they offered to pay me money and then said they didn't need my bank information (then when I asked how they intended to pay me without my bank info, they sidestepped the question and switched subjects). They also asked for my age and location, and when I said I wasn't comfortable telling them, they ignored that and repeated their questions

I had no intention of giving them any information about myself whatsoever. Just,, for the record. Long screenshot under the cut, so you guys know what to keep an eye out for ^^"

Note: the first two messages were apparently sent twice by tumblr?? Idk why that happened, since I only sent one message initially to say hi. Them repeating their age and location questions could've been a glitch or something too, but idk about that one, since there was at least a full minute between the first try asking and the second try

#not skeleton stuff #rambles #potential scam alert #idk how to tag this #good LORD this screenshot is cropped in a way that bothers me so much #hhhhhhhhhhh #its possible this person just wants someone to talk to #but like #this feels SO scammy to me

[fandom-hoarder]

Ok, so I got an ask for mutual aid. Of course, it's human to want to help someone in need, even if all you can do is reblog their post. But you also don't want to be scammed, or help spread a scam. So you look for clues, or you only reblog your mutuals' aid posts because you at least know they're *real*, or you don't reblog aid posts at all.

So, what are the tells? (I'm not an expert, this is just what I've learned through osmosis.)

Do they follow/interact with you, outside of the mutual aid request?

Is their username weirdly generic?

Does the blog look like a real tumblr user, and not just someone who made a tumblr to ask for aid? How old is it? Is it involved in any fandoms? Does it seem staged?

Does their aid ask and needs description make sense? Is it overly vague, or bogged down with unneeded details?

If you quote-search the body of their aid ask, do you get any similar hits for scams on other sites or under other names?

Does the account for donations look legit?

What do you find when you reverse image search?

So, having received an ask that sounded very much like someone whose mutual aid I would want to support if they're real, but already having two red flags from the jump (not following me and not in my notifications, weird wording and grammar on ask), I endeavored to suss them out.

Screencaps of my adventure under the cut.

Like someone else has said, please don't go harrass this blog. Even if it's a scam, at some point there's a person behind that screen.

So here's the ask.

Red flags: they don't follow me, I don't know them, the ask is long, the grammar and punctuation are bad, word choices are odd or misspelled. These don't mean it's automatically fake, but it looks more like a weird AI than someone using google translate to communicate in English.

So I check their blog.

Their pinned post is this (click to read, it's a longass pic):

I don't take any links yet.

I take a block of their post and check it in google; all I get are snapshots of tumblr reblogs for their aid post. I click the "buy me a coffee" link, and it looks...idk, fine I guess. There's a tumblr logo, but clicking it seems to do nothing. (I'm on mobile)

A quick search of their name on tumblr gives me 2 posts mentioning them spamming this same message to people.

I read the one with the readmore linked here

After reading wannursyafiqah74's post about it, I got on my laptop and went back to casualdonutfire.

Mostly random reblogs; cats and other random reblogs of mostly pics, many with comments that could've/should've been tags, and no actual tags whatsoever. Like set dressing that says, "See? I'm a real person! I'm leaving comments about my reblogs that show I'm not a bot! I interact! I know what I'm I'm reblogging!"

It gives me a creepy vibe. I try google again to see if I can find their presence elsewhere on tumblr. The returns are still all snapshots of their mutual aid post. I open their archive. Ok, their tumblr has archive on...?

There are no fandom-esque posts until the very first reblog, a comment on One Piece fanart on October 18, 2023.

Their first post about needing aid was on November 7, 2023. Nearly the same wording as their pinned post, except they don't mention having a child. Zero specifics on what amount is needed for what or a timeline or anything. Not even anything about Christmas coming up. Tagged generously for trans surgery and other visibility words.

Oh. AND. The buymeacoffee is different. Adela, not Adella.

Then their next post for aid is fresh on January 11, 2024; nearly the same wording, except now there's a daughter and a birthday -- no date for the birthday, though, is there?!

[reblog linked here] If you go to their January 12th reblog and click on the "video proof," it's an audio-only black screen upload to imgur, with no identifying info for what's going on other than what they describe (and it doesn't really sound like what they describe; it sounds like a kid ready for christmas but not disappointed, like idk what more you're supposed to get out of it)

Then I clicked on their buymeacoffee link and noticed something. When I hovered my mouse over the tumblr symbol under their blurb, the link embedded there showed up at the bottom of my screen. And it was NOT casualdonutfire.

It was deepeagletimetravel. And, of course, it's a nuked tumblr. Hence doing NOTHING for me on mobile.

So I went to google again!

And lo, what do I find in those lurking reblogs?

ANOTHER MUTUAL AID POST IN EVERYONE'S REBLOGS. WITH A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSONA AND STORY. BUT THE SAME WALL OF TEXT + BAD PUNCTUATION STYLE

Using a stock photo for their initial "bio" that seems awfully misleading when you don't say it's a stock photo.

And with stolen/uncredited art by thetransformistress as a thank you.

And, of course, the buymeacoffee page it linked for Ameera (buymeacoffee.com/AmeeradelzC) is blank. 👀 Totallynormal, nothing to see here.

But this makes me think. I go back to that Nov 7 casualdonutfire post, with their first buymeacoffee link to "Adela" (buymeacoffee.com/adelladomil)--

and what do ya know, the tumblr that opens is casualdonutfire!

So did they forget they made an adela account, and change their ameera buymeacoffee account to adella for their new post, forgetting to change the deepeagletimetravel tumblr name?! 🤷‍♀️

#possible scam #scam alert #scam likely #casualdonutfire #deepeagletimetravel

[rooolt]

it’s like, okay if we think about the timeline for a moment hermie is presumably the same age as most of the teens so like ~15 and Lincoln is a year older than them (biologically) and so let’s assume Lincoln was a few months old during the time of the most recent episode, that would put scam either immediately before hermie or in like a hermie pregnancy era, implying he and Jodie are still together, and in this episode we can clearly see that his attitude is that a baby is all a couple needs to stay together. So just like,,,,,,,,, what happened?!!???!!!

#There’s also the possibility that scam left Jodie before hermie was born #But we know Jodie knows about hermie #Like I’m so normal about scamster I promise like ignore me so hard it’s fine #dndads #dungeons and daddies

[shadowfoxsilver]

jackrisstuff/jacrstuff/jacrsstuff/ jacrstuffsposts/jacrstuffsblog psa/beware

Update: As of 7/26/2023 all accounts are now down! Unfortunately this kind of scam still pops up as other users so please take caution if you get asks like this from accounts that are only a few days old and don’t show any images as proof of who they are. Always ask questions.

Update 2: As of 8/13/2023, their back under jacrstuffsblog.

[Image ID: A screenshot of an ask sent by jackrisstuff that reads as follows: “Hello sorry for tagging. Please help a black mother in need. I'm diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer which has spread to my lungs, neck and brain. I'm in a very vulnerable situation with no treatment because l'm unable to afford one. Currently I'm homeless with my 19 months old daughter because we cant. Anything appreciated” and ends with a beating heart emoji. /End ID]

Just a heads up to my followers and anyone else, this account blocked me when I requested them to provide evidence that their a real person needing support. Instead of answering my concern and replying to a link that brought up suspicions, they opted to start spamming asks to my mutuals/followers in efforts to try and get them to share the aid post. This is clear proof they don’t intent to prove their a real person needing aid and are just spamming asks to everyone they can find instead of proving they actually need support.

I do not want people to be scammed because a blogger decided to spam my friends askboxes. If you got this ask, I also suggest you to ask the person for proof their legit or block them before they can spam your followers/people you shared from. It’s sickening they likely stole someone’s real fundraiser pictures to pass off as their own ill daughter.

This is exactly the reason why I try to tell people please don’t spam asks to get support. There are scammers who do the same thing and don’t like it when public concern is brought up. The email they give is linked to a suspended twitter account that was sending the same message but had an entirely different pic.

UPDATE!

New url is jacrstuff. Their trying to avoid my alert now which further proves their not legitimate. No one needing aid would change urls like this.

[Image ID: A screenshot of an ask sent by jacrstuff that reads as follows: “Hello sorry for tagging. Please help a black mother in need. I'm diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer which has spread to my lungs, neck and brain. I'm in a very vulnerable situation with no treatment because l'm unable to afford one. Currently I'm homeless with my 19 months old daughter because we cant. Anything appreciated” and ends with a beating heart emoji. /End ID]

Update 2: Url change again instead of verifying who they are and still trying to get away from this warning. Now under jacrsstuff.

[Image ID: A screenshot of an ask sent by jacrsstuff that reads as follows: “Please help a black mother in need. I'm diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer which has spread to my lungs, neck and brain. I'm in a very vulnerable situation with no treatment because I'm unable to afford one. Currently I'm homeless with my 19 months old daughter because we cant. I'm struggling for medicines, shelter and groceries that really puts a lot of stress on me. Anything help with a bearing heart emoji used and then and is very much appreciated ending with a praying hand emoji. /End ID]

Additionally, if you search their email provided in their post, it shows up with a suspended twitter account using the photograph of a white adult woman with a child while the asker claims to be a black adult woman with a child. The twitter post seems to use the same exact wording as the askers post though I am unable to find the source of the image they used for the twitter post.

Update again

yollandde on twitter is now running the same scam.

#scam #possible scam #jackrisstuff #cancer mention #psa #jacrstuff #jacrsstuff #jacrstuffsposts #jacrstuffsblog

[kyra45]

imafandom was/is backdating posts on their blog.

Here is proof. Three different posts that are all from June 12 backdated to look older. I checked other reblogs and it shows every post was made June 12th aside from anything more recent.

As an update, the blog says they didn't think this was a bad thing to do. However, I will keep this post up to provide proof they was backdating posts. You are free to make your own decisions. But please take caution.

Backdating posts is not a good thing to do. It is deceptive and tricks people into thinking a blog is older than it really is.

#imafandom #kyra45 speaks #possible scam

[vynnyal]

Turns out Sunlit Trail isn't quite done just yet, so after all that they just send you to a dead end 😂

#rain world #comic #rw chasing wind #sunlit Trail #Hunter #Art #Chasing wind spoilers #I can't imagine anyone filters that tag but just in case sksksks #ANYWAYS turns out mod is way better than I expected and it's super well made. #So far made the trip as hunter (first time) then riv and now working on arti. #For arti I realized that howling rifts led to sub and sub led to dar shore so I was like sweet! A shortcut! #Now imagine for a sec trying to get through a parkcore + miros bird gauntlet with a corpse and a worm within 5 cycles #before the scav ran out of karma and you were stuck inside forever. Yeah #Besides that tho I've been messing around and been very tenderly modding the game. #Turns out you can have a bit of fun with most sprites without too much effort by simply cloning the MSC mod in your files #Then changing the copy's mod info so it doesn't clash and simply swapping images out for whatever you want #As long as you have the sprite name you can do this. You can also change region names and decals and music all sorts of stuff. #In short I've been brewing a custom mod for a friend to make her suffer as much as possible <3 #Thanks to a buddy on the rw server for showing me that trick btw lol. The best cesspool I've ever participated in #Oh before I forget- the symbol on CW's head is completely made up. They just looked so... Bald. #Tbh I wasn't expecting their personality to be so... bright? Most interpretations make them kinda solemn and gloomy #But nah this CW is what NSH should've been 100%. I like them. Not gonna spoil too much but their situation is somehow so... chill. #Still bad tho! #Other fun news! There's a scammer going around on discord that's basically like ''bad news I reported you for fraud'' #And they're getting a lot of people. My buddy that owned my home server got hit and we lost everything. It's all OK tho nobody was hurt #I keep trying to ask them questions on my alts but they're ignoring me... I kinda wanna bait them into doing the scam with me #to see how far I get before they catch on 😜 #Wasting a scammer's time is never a waste of time #Ah I had more to say but I reached my tag max. Till next time- hopefully my animation project will be done by then!

[manda-kat]

Looking at Wish, I just keep thinking of the people who called Frozen a 'lazy movie' because they used really similar face shapes for Anna, Elsa and their mother.

Look at the ice and snow effects in that movie. Listen to the music. Enjoy the comedy. Remember that it isn't even close to the beauty of Disney's best and yet it still remains a work of art.

Now look at Wish as the monkey's paw curls. Hey- at least they use different face shapes.

#the background and character designs are so simplified it could be a tv show on netflix #fitting to call it Wish when that's the name of a scam website that sells subpar products #the songs have no structure and sound like a 13 year old wrote them #the characters are annoying #nothing matters #the main conflict is a mess #the main character is just an entitled brat #it feels rushed and cheap #and then they have the NERVE to reference their classic movies as if this garbage is the same? #they think they can have the magic without the artists who made magic possible #disney branding does not make disney quality #it is an insult to reference snow white especially #from a monumental movie that pioneered animation to something too cheap and cowardly to even try? #and the budget on Wish SHOULD have allowed fot a great movie but where did it go? #This movie would be fine enough as an indie film #to attribute this as Disney is wrong #nothing about Disney is left

[hoziersredguitar]

I miss old tumblr in the sense that i could complain about board exams and worrying about not getting enough to be eligible for my medical entrance test and i'd have summoned half the indian side of tumblr to sympathize

#im in sm stress #if i dont score above 75% im not eligible for my neet exam #which im planning to take a drop year for #and its gonne be both expensive and emotionally taxing #and i have to give THIS years neet exam too #for reasons #im not in the clear until may 20 #adulthood is a scam #And that is well BEFORE i even start preparing for neet #well before i even have to consider the possibility that i might not get in #im pretty much using this post to vent in tags #its like 4 am #and im stressed. scared. everything #its really difficult just existing w adhd and mental illness #much less studying #and neet is like highly competetive #the cutoff goes so high #i want to get out of this city #and be safe and actually be alive for once #a big part of me will shrivel up and die if i stay #and this is the first time i've actually wanted smth for real #tentatively and doubtfully #but wanting still #and idk if i'll make a good doctor or if i'll fuck up and have it all blow up in my fsce #overthinking basically #im worried im not. capable of doing this #anyways desi tumblrinas where are you😭😭😭😭

[mademoiselle-cookie]

People who accuse Etoiles of being wrong abotu Aypierre-BBH alliance and knowing nothing about their relationship, I have a few questions for you:

Is your main POV BadBoyHalo?

Do you watch Aypierre and/or Etoiles?

Bc Étoiles knows Aypierre. He knows him for years, he ate at his house, he met his wife and children. They still played to Minecraft together and they talked. He is in a much better position to know what's going on in Aypierre's head than anyone on this site, especially people who don't watch either of them.

Also, Étoiles is in general really good at reading people. Roier fans applauded him for his analyse of Roier's way of rping, he had a 100% accuracy rate in his accusations during an Amoung Us with people a lot better than him at the game, etc, etc, etc. And you think he will not be able to analyse someone he knows for years? When he was on point about a person he really played with for a short time?

Do you remember Étoiles was talking about a troller? Did you notice he was talking about cc!Aypierre and not q!Aypierre?

And more importantly, do you remember it's about a course for COINS? And that no one will die? At worse, BBH will not gain money, which is not that necessary and he planned to not spend them anyways. What's the problem then? It would just be fun and good content by trolling someone.

I don't know who need to hear this but BBH is not the center of everyone else's life. Other person/character have other focus and priority than him. Not "betraying" BBH is not their goal in life. If you're that worried about him, remember he was a nightmare in Purgatory, and not only he didn't apologize but he's not even sorry but everyone is still friends with him (don't fool yourself, he would have been equally awful to Aypierre if they weren't in the same team).

#qsmp #qsmp etoiles #qsmp aypierre #qsmp badboyhalo #can Etoiles be wrong? #Maybe #everything is possible no one can predict the future #he was wrong before : about Aypierre having a blast in Purgatory and about people only thinking about money on QSMP2024 #But both times there were good reasons for that #He didn't know what really was Purgatory at the time #and on the money subject #he was a little marked by someone scamming his friends multiple time and trying to scam ETOILES himself #(wonder who it was) #But there're still a massive massive chance Étoiles is right about the alliance

[adulthoodisokay]

i take it back, adulthood is a scam!!!

#how is it possible that i need reading glasses already?!?! #i'm barely in my 40s!!! #SOMETIMES it's a scam #like putting on reading glasses and being like “oh okay yeah this actually does help with fine print” #i mean it's still ~okay~ in that it's not great and it's not terrible #that was the logic behind my url

[red-dyed-sarumane]

i need people to start paying me for every time they tell me "oh but ur arts so good ur wasting ur talent u need to do it professionally" wrong i need to do art to draw beautiful characters that not a single other person cares about while feeding every ounce of love i have into my work or to convey thoughts & feelings beyond words and to even think of doing otherwise is to deny my own nature "oh but u can do what u want and then sell it" why is everything about money to you why cant u just enjoy things at what point in ur life did u forget how to have fun

#i hate that this stance is also seen as childish #like i have a full time job & often have mandatory overtime i have income already #if u need to to make ends meet then thats different do what u can to help urself live as comfortably as possible #but holy fuck pleasure as an adult is not limited to sex & money & watching tv #besides u know not a single one of the people who say this are willing to actually pay what the arts worth #its like 'well not me but other people would love it!' yeah okay u know a lot of other people are going to see the #over $100 price tag and go 'i like it but not that much! other people however' like just shut up. honestly. be quiet. #if i speed ran my art and low balled myself to a $15/hour rate the lowest would still be like $120 #which is not worth it AT ALL bc i just paid MORE to sit on my ass & look at eggs #and. again. is underselling myself for both experience & time. but people think $80 full body comms are too expensive #do u think im so stupid to not expect to get scammed when even 'easy' things are over $100 #but no ur right why would i have fun with something when i could instead cause myself infinite stress over it perfect thanks #do not give me advice about doing comms i do not want to do comms #if u see me doing comms im in a very dire situation. like thats a last resort for me.

[revenantghost]

*bangs fists on table* I SOLD MY FIRST ORDER ON ETSY LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

#GOTTA USE ALL MY BRAINCELLS GOTTA GO FAST #I feel bad because it's all so pricey on my other storefronts #For the fees and... I underprice my crafts lbr #BUT IMMA HAVE AN ORDER!!! I WILL NO LONGER POSSIBLY LOOK LIKE A SCAM ACCOUNT!!!!!!!!! #MAYBE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #*froths at the mouth before collapsing* #Yadda yadda