#scambaiting

[parttimepunner]

Wow Kitboga is on NPR.

#Kitboga #npr #scambaiting #Edna #just wait a moment #remember the one where ducks attacked his cursor?

[hogteeth]

The scammer didn't appreciate Australian turtle frogs 😔

#scammers #scambaiting #oc #turtle frog

[hyenashark]

daniel from the world wide web wide tech association

#kitboga #scambaiting #art #my art #doodle #digital art

[the-worm-machine]

My friend listen to me I don’t know what you are doing Infact I have giving you the lawyer who you suppose to contact And I don’t really know the reason why you are bringing the issue of the soul called Mr Barrister John Warosa I don’t understand your plan here But I have told you to contact Barrister Mohammad Hassan, he is here in UAE He is the only person who will handle this business and without him That means there is no way And I just finished my meeting with him About 2 hours ago, so he is the person who will handle this business And even I can meet with him again Tomorrow morning in his office and I beg you If you really want this business to move forward Just forget any issue or discussion with the soul Called Mr Barrister John Warosa I beg you, I don’t want you to discus with me anything about The soul called Mr Barrister John Warosa I beg, don’t tell me about him again It’s only Barrister Mohammad Hassan That the person who I speak with about this business And no other soul called Barrister and I beg Do not tell me anything about the soul called Mr Barrister John Warosa. 

#john warosa #john barosa #scambaiting #copypasta

[cyanocoraxx]

Hello friend

I'm doing a fundraiser to help *Buster * my neighbors Dog 🐶 who is in need of help. He was Attacked by a pit bull and need emergency assistance Donate if you don’t mind to Reblog my pinned post at least to gain more awareness.Thank for your support 🙏❤️

this you queen?

ryannqueen and ryannorndorff both post links that lead to a person's fundraiser or paypal under the name ryan orndorff. is this your dog or your neighbour's? you're the same person and anyone can see that, you're not slick <3

you then also claimed the "attack" happened january 20th AND also august 6th in a different post. it's now january 25th, so you mean to tell me this dog has been heavily sedated and awaiting treatment for this long? hey, mr. animal degree here, no vet is going to do that to an animal, and i don't even need a degree to tell you that

also, hey genius, second pic is clearly a different dog <3 shame on you for using a photo of someone else's animal that may be in pain and distress for your own gain. and shame on you again for trying to crowdfund for vet bills when so many actual pet parents are struggling, but would likely "help" you out of the goodness of their hearts because they know what it's like to have a member of their family in discomfort. and another shame on you moment for using a “pitbull attack” to garner sympathy. fuck you very much, they get enough shit as it is without people like you using them in fake stories like this

i’m so excited for you to block me btw & i hope anyone who thinks to search your paypal or gofundme before donating finds this post (:

#ryannqueen #ryannorndorff #scambaiting #fake fundraiser #scammers #animal harm tw #animal injury tw

[ninatastic]

(ʃƪ ˘ ³˘)

#kitboga #scambaiting

[rinoapoison]

all good things must come to an end

it won't be long before the collector's item Pumpkin Buddy is discontinued...

have you got yours?

#merchandise #fan merch #merch #scambaiting #rinoa poison #scambaiter

[kittykslitterbox]

Everyone watch out for this scammer here. He originally posted a comment under one of my tumblr posts asking me to DM him about being a sugar baby. After wasting my time talking for awhile, he brought up a scam I come across a lot where he says he’ll send you money, as long as you send a fee first to “register” yourself. This is the 5th time at least that I’ve been approached with this scam. Don’t fall for it. You will not receive money back.

#scambaiting #fraudulent #buyer beware #warning signs #sugarbaby #sugardaddy #fake person #fake accounts #fake money #beware post #block them #report

[hearth-and-veil]

And that, my dears, is how scams start

#witchblr #witchcraft #witch #kitchen witch #hearth witch #magic #witches #witch problems #scambaiting

[agelessorca]

New Favorite Word: Glarded

Glarded funds may not be transferred into an account which is in a tax clode without an inoppolity certificate

#quote #scambaiting #atomic shrimp #language

[vickysaurus]

We’ve all encountered plenty of whatever the latest iteration of spambots plaguing Tumblr is. But don’t forget to stay vigilant for their human counterparts too! I’ve been getting messages from what’s pretty clearly an entirely human scammer trying to pull what is probably a fake check scam. I’ve been having some fun wasting their time with inane nonsense, but I do think their tactic could potentially get to people, so keep an eye out for it.

(Long scambaiting conversation under the cut)

It started, as these things typically do, with an avatar-less account following both this account and @vickysaurus-art. But they did have a post on their profile, so I let them be and moved on. But then, later that evening, the messages started.

So if the new follower messaging me out of the blue wasn’t shady enough, the second message absolutely confirms this is a scam. They come up with an incredibly vague statement about liking ‘my profile’ and apparently this unholy mixture of extinct animals, the Owl House, various fictional queer characters, and whatever else I feel like sharing has made them see fit to make me their muse for a mural and immediately throw 300 bucks around. Don’t ever be taken in by such obvious appeals to your ego as an artist. I decided to see if I could make them do a bit of homework and explain what exactly it is that is worthy of being a mural.

Looks like the scammer wants to move off-app as soon as possible. There are several reasons for this: presumably they are trying this shit with multiple people and it’s only a matter of time until enough spam reports come in that eventually even Tumblr staff may take a break from flagging trans people’s posts as mature to close the scammer’s account, interrupting their running scams. Secondly, it is much easier to pressure someone into doing something over the phone, and much easier to get them to accidentally volunteer information. Thirdly, if we communicate here, the records of their scam are going to be much easier to access if this ever were to go to court than direct communication. And finally, one of the main goals of this scam is probably to get as much of my personal details as possible, either to try some recreational identity theft or just to sell them to other scammers. My phone number would be a nice start to that data collection.

My new friend really oversold their plans with the word ‘mural’. 50x50 cm, please, I’ve seen bigger murals painted on chicken coops. However, they did finally settle on what post inspired them so much! It’s ‘the Bat Queen everyone’s been commenting on’. Ah yes, who could forget my legendary viral Bat Queen post, which was both my original work and has been getting comments from everyone. I think it’s this one, which has SEVEN notes. Hot damn, it does deserve to be on a mural.

‘I think the Bat Queen is like a novel, which everyone is interested to have it or a paint of it as well’ is my favourite line from this entire exchange.

Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair. But the scammer is moving on from the Bat Queen now. Notice some more working of my ego, as well as the assurance that they’d never dream of cheating me or breaking the law! Trustworthy folk to be sure. If this is a fake check scam, as I suspect, it's critical for the scammer that I trust them and want them to have their share of the 'profits'. Anyway, never mind that because there’s a problem…

I do not come to Tumblr to hear people poo-pooing my Bat Queen posts. They are my legacy and I want to hear an apology for this slander. The scammer stopped replying for a while at this point and I actually began making this post as I figured they’d given up, when suddenly the game was back on!

Well, it’s decidedly mid as apologies go, but I let us move on anyway. There was some other nonsense I felt like trying.

Scammers will often try and rush things along, set deadlines, imply you need to hurry or you may miss out. Aside from playing on good old FOMO, this ensures you don’t start having second thoughts after having some time to think, nor the time to start bragging to others about the obvious scam they’ll surely see through. But I’m scambaiting here, so I’m gonna be as obstructive and annoying as possible and keep delaying things.

If you wanna be annoying, ask someone if you can ask a question. For bonus points, make the actual question a pointless, unnecessary one too.

Plot twist! Though the scammer was inspired by my posts and wanted to make a mural, and the 300 dollars were promised to me merely for being an inspiration, it turns out I’m the one who’s supposed to be doing the painting.

I wonder if, in a later stage of this scam, I would have ended up talking to the ‘client’. Tumblr ended up banning the scammer before things could get that far, so I guess we'll never know. The scammer mentioning the client will be paying through a check written in my name is an important detail, because what's going on here is most likely a fake check scam.

Anyway, it was getting late so I decided to let the opportunity to really drag things out and ask a lot about the ‘client’ go to instead assure the scammer I was very interested and completely taken in by their scam, with the knowledge I was about to leave them hanging for the night.

The poor scammer got lonely during the night :( Also they start asking for my location, and I start doing literally everything except answer that question.

Good morning scammer! Sorry to hear you’re from Florida but then again that’s probably a lie judging by the hours you tried to scam me at. They briefly mention dreams in their continued vacuous well-wishes before getting back to asking about my location. SO LEMME TELL YOU ABOUT MY DREAMS.

Let’s delay things some more with pointless questions about my own dream.

You’re not getting off the hook that easily, buddy. You’re gonna interpret this nonsense I made up before we move on.

Oh, it’s a sign I should proceed with your scam? Convenient. But what if it’s a warning instead? Never mind your bullshit about the client, let us discuss my bullshit some more.

Oh, I guess we should dismiss this dream if it’s not a sign to jump in. Except I am still hung up on talking about dreams. I’m continuing to ignore the location question, not because it’s a secret - I’ve mentioned my actual home country several times on this blog so if they'd done more homework than scrolling down to 'the Bat Queen post' they could easily know - but because it’s something the scammer wants, so I’m not giving it to them. Eventually, when the question does become unavoidable, I’ll just lie anyway.

Gotta love some fool trying to scam people on tumblr talking big about the good legacy they want to leave behind.

If this sounds at all sarcastic and like I'm asking what their mum would think of their being a shitty scammer, it's because it is and I am.

Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realise you wanted me to talk about myself! Have a stream of buzzwordy verbal diarrhoea containing no new information whatsoever. I was quite tired from a long day, so 'synergise' was the only buzzword I could actually come up with.

After this, they once again asked me where I was from, and this time with no other parts of their message to focus on and me getting ready for bed, I decided to throw them a bone.

I was hoping they'd take the name of this French town as the insult it doubled as, but if they did they did not tell me about it.

And that's as far as things went, because Tumblr finally got around to banning them during the night. This morning, my reply got a 'Could not send' and when I went to their profile, it was gone. By the afternoon, the chats had vanished too but I took screencaps as I went since I was expecting just such a thing. I was gonna regale them with the entire history of Alsace and its role in Franco-German relations before letting anything else happen too, and maybe throw in another dream I'd had that night.

So, what was the point of all this for the scammer? I think there's probably a combination of two aims here. The lesser aim is to obtain as much of my data as possible, for identity theft, selling to other scammers, and possibly blackmail if I were to start pulling the breaks on the scam. But more importantly, this is probably a fake check scam being set up. Had the scam proceeded, I would eventually have been sent a convincing fake check for the 300 dollars. Probably more. You see, the 'client' has accidentally included the scammer's middle man fee in the amount they sent me! Whoopsie! Now my good buddy will ask me to send them their half of the 600 dollars the client accidentally sent me with the check. And that's the part where they get your money. Because the check I received is fake and will be refused by the bank sooner or later, but the money I sent the scammer is real.

So keep an eye out! The way this scammer talked about my posts, of which my own art is just a small part, made it immediately extremely obvious it was a scam, but a scammer specifically talking about my paleoart instead of 'that Bat Queen post' could maybe have fooled me.

#scambaiting #tumblr #spam #fake check scam #I think the Bat Queen is like a novel #which everyone is interested to have it or a paint of it as well

[jackalgirl]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_PtsA7DUQM

*<wheeze>* Athelstan Britannica *<wheeze>*

#atomic shrimp #scambaiting #YouTube #Queen Elizabeth the Eleventh

[thelowerdecker]

🚨(POTENTIAL SCAM ALERT)🚨

OK, I’ve noticed that there seems to be a sudden influx of Romance Scammers flooding Tumblr recently, or at least flooding my account.

These accounts have NOTHING on them, have pictures stolen from other sites and were created on the day they follow people!

Watch out, do not engage! They just want to STEAL MONEY from vulnerable people!

#scam alert #watch out #scammers #romance scams #fake profiles #scam watch #scambaiting #scam likely #scam #do not engage

[bdealer]

Anyone else getting a lot of bots following them these past few days ?

#scambaiting #bot accounts #scam actually

[driftwoodskeleton]

you know, i don't think the scammer pretending to be my uncle cares about my fake dead husband 🤔

#scambaiting #scam #i wouldve played stupid longer but this fucker would not deviate from his script at all #play the game u arse:/

[secretariatess]

“Scout Talent”: Yo, I’m from a fast-growing platform, and I’m interested in your story, Between the Veil and Crown! I can professionally connect you to a larger audience and help you earn a bigger monthly income! Just send me your email and we can talk about the offer!

Me: Cool! What’s the name of the platform?

“Scout Talent”: Oh, can’t say here. Super strict rules. But we’re legit. You can find us on the app store and we have a website! But can’t explain the offer here- give us your business email and the team can tell you more!

Me: . . . .

Me: Okay, can understand wanting to communicate via email about a professional offer, but whose rules prevent you from saying the name of a fast-growing platform in private messages???

#if they don't leave me after me asking for a link to the website or point me to the app #and asking what rules prevent them from giving out their name #am strongly considering creating another email just to deal with them #because I would like to know what company is doing this kind of stuff #also #scambaiting #:D