#tumblr psa

[ironhoshi]

Hey.

Don't do this. Don't anon and send a link. Immediate block. (Obvs you were being malicious so you don't care.)

That game doesn't exist, I searched not via that link.

Be careful what you click out there. People want to steal your shit or infect you. I am not looking to get .//hacked here. Kthx bye.

#well thats sketchy as shit #don't click random links #psa #tumblr spam #people suck #tumblr psa #internet safety psa

[heywriters]

Everyone who was/is dedicated to tagging Goncharov as "unreality" pls do the same with AI images.

Untagged fake photos are permeating the art, interior design, and now writing prompt areas of tumblr. It gives me uncanny valley ick, so there's probably others who it stresses out more.

Please tag your auto-generated images!

#goncharov #writing #writeblr #writing prompt #visual writing #writing ideas #story prompts #tumblr psa #friendly reminder #signal boost

[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'

#psa #scam #scam warning #cat #cats #animals #tumblr psa #mutual aid #if you have any other urls leave the names in the comments or in a reblog i think there's a lot of em out there #scammer's known urls: #commandobutch #eeyore-pg #starlightdisc #xxmy #starrypanelstars #wxnt #turncoatrune #coatedpeanbean #scyllostyle #panelstars #the-nonbinary-witch #lovely-pages #aash-aash #ash-aahs #five-and-fourty #five and fourty #leechness #(urls list may not be complete because they're insanely persistent w making new blogs)

[titenoute]

To the new people on Tumblr who don't understand why we veterans block empty blogs with no avatar, no title nor personalisation on sight.

This is why.

This is a bot. And they can do this kind of things.

Which isn't ok.

So for the love of everybody's sanity, personalise your blog. Even if you're lurking.

#Tumblr #tumblr psa #fuck bots #great way to wake up by finding one of these in your askbox

[shadowfoxsilver]

eeyore-pg is a scam account

Update 2/13/2023 - The scam account is finally down and removed! I’ll still leave this alert up though as a reminder to anyone who sees the scam post floating around. Below is the original warning contents.

Update #2 - You can help Eeyore here!

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Hi! You may have received this ask from an account called eeyore-pg:

“Hi there, im really sorry for this cause I know its kinda inappropriate to ask for a favor at a time like this, but I just wanted to try and ask if you could possibly share or boost the post I pinned for my cat Eeyore since we're in desperate need of help right now. I hope youd consider, if not I understand and pls dont worry. Be safe always! Pls do send me a msg or answer this ask privately if possible <33”

This is actually a scam ask. This ask has been specifically catered to sound very urgent, but also asks you to answer privately even though the post is very public. It is well known asks like this want to be hidden so searches wouldn’t find them but they get spammed so much that asking to answer privately is kinda pointless. In fact, this ask is about a cat called Eeyore.

While Eeyore is a real cat, he is not owned by the supposed Pamela Galvan. In fact, their email, pictured below from their public post, is not the email run by the real owner. I’m posting this because it is not private info; It is seen in a post accessible to anyone who looks.

You may ask yourself who the real owner is. Well, good news! They do have a tumblr account now and even have their own post explaining that this account I speak of here is not theirs and has stolen their post from Facebook. Below is the owners post with their own photo of Eeyore that the scammer likely will save and use to prove they own him. The owner is more used to Facebook, so sorry for the kinda bland blog appearance. They were in a hurry.

So please, do not share eeyore-pg’s post unless you are warning people it’s a scammer. I know the account linked above is run by the owner; I have contacted them by Facebook DM’s and confirmed they run the linked account and not eeyore-pg.

Please share this post to bring awareness of the scammer and share it to anyone who has shared the scam post.

#scam alert #scam #eeyore pg #psa #tumblr psa

[s0fti3w1tch]

Please be easy on and mindful of fanartists and fanfic writers when they decide to discontinue or take long breaks from their works. It's okay to feel sad and stuff, like, you cared about that thing. But remember that these people are people. Most people start doing this kind of stuff for fun, for passion.

Please don't make Val, Bloodbath AU's creator, feel guilty or tell them you're disappointed in them.

And please don't guilt or push artists who are still working on their fanworks to update.

We're only individual bodies doing this stuff at home. Thank you for liking our works, but remember that we exist behind these screens.

#tumblr psa #tmnt psa #regular buwan blog #tmnt au stuff #rottmnt au stuff

[occultradio]

I guess save anything important on your blogs because @vyxated's blog got taken down too and nothing was nsfw

#clover.txt #tumblr psa

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Periodic reminder that it is good and awesome that you can turn off reblogs and comments on this site, but if you are trying to promote your writing/art/run an advice blog and people cannot reblog your work, it will not be seen.

Reblogging is essential for gaining traction/eyeballs on Tumblr, don't shoot yourself in the foot by locking your content down.

(Unless you want to! Then it's fine!)

#tumblr psa

[femininemenon]

PSA about legacy posts in drafts

if you have saved a bunch of legacy editor posts, LISTEN UP

tumblr mobile browser behaves EXACTLY as tumblr desktop does

i uploaded this set on the legacy editor (bc i do not have the web editor turned on) on desktop:

but when i went to edit it on the mobile browser (which as established behaves like tumblr desktop), it immediately took me to the new editor AND gave me an error code when i tried to save the changes i made:

this means any set you have saved on legacy editor, after the update, you won't be able to edit or to publish

#tuserbea #tuserrex #tuserabbie #userbecca #userbru #usergif #tumblr psa

[canadiancryptid]

New privacy setting just dropped! Its turned off by default!

Its under blog settings, for each individual sideblog. Bottom of the page. Don't know if you can get to it from app but you definitely can on desktop mode

#tumblr #any ai trained off of tumblr will just be randomly generated shitposts which is both hilarious and horrifying #anti ai #user data #privacy settings #cryptid says stuff #tumblr psa #third-party sharing #data privacy #ai scraping

[polybius3d]

Hey, PSA that tumblr is gonna dabble into AI shit so if ur an artist/writer/anyone really that does NOT want that, go into your settings and look for this option under "Visibility".

#artists on tumblr #artblr #writers on tumblr #writeblr #tumblr update #anti ai #fuck ai art #fuck ai writing #psa #tumblr psa

[logorrhea5mip]

Important Tumblr PSA:

Hold your fire, like half of them are people.

Please, just put a message like this in the DMs of default picture people who follow you, it's basically Tumblr civic duty.

Please reblog, it's important

#not a reblog #ramblings #tumblring #tumblr psa #psa #important #bots #hellsite

[whump-queen]

Y’all.. if you’re following me and your blog looks like this I’m literally begging you to give me something, anything, to indicate you’re a real person and not a bot.

Like, I’m super grateful to all of you for following me and I don’t want to block real people! but bots have historically been a huge problem on tumblr, and it’s really hard to tell if you’re real if you look like a bot account.

And I don’t wanna be all up in your DM’s like

So if you have just a few seconds, consider changing your title/bio/profile icon/background to literally anything but the tumblr defaults— a random anime character, a picture of a cat, a cactus, a blurry pic of your thumb, literally anything else <3

#once again tysm for following this blog I just don’t want to block anyone accidentally #and there are so many of y’all default icon accounts and I see you I appreciate you! #I just wanna make sure you’re real <33 #and yes pls live your life however you want I’m just saying if you would like to not be blocked by other users #i would reccommend changing your pfp and interacting a bit via reblogging things! <333 #this has been a psa thanks for listening <3 #tumblr psa #my post #whump-queen

[make-me-imagine]

Warning to Empty Blogs

This is mostly a note for those who may have recently come to tumblr and do not understand the importance of actually using your blog.

If you follow me, and have a default profile icon, and no posts or reblogs on your page, there is a chance that I am going to block you for thinking you are a bot/spam account.

I go through my recent follows every week or so, and if blogs like this have not updated their icon or made any posts or reblogged anything to their blogs, I will assume they are in fact bot accounts and will block them. *I'm not referring to those who have not reblogged anything from me, I mean those who haven't reblogged anything at all in general.

Blocking empty blogs, is a common thing that blogs do, so if you suddenly cannot access blogs you follow, this is a likely reason.

So, how do you avoid getting blocked? Upload a profile picture, change your banner, add a bio (no need to put any personal info unless you want. Just add a 'hello', a quote, anything). Do more than just like posts. Reblog, or maybe make some original posts.

This is not the kind of site you should remain completely inactive on. There are like buttons, and reblog buttons for a reason.

*Also, if your blog remains empty and inactive, even if you log into it daily, there is a chance that it will be deleted by staff for mistaking you as a bot as well.

Example of a possibly bot/spam account:

^this kind of blog will most likely get you blocked, sorry.

xx

#psa post #fyi #for new followers #and new tumblr users #tumblr psa #change your icons and reblog sh*t #or make posts #might delete later #non content post #random post #psa

[thatoneweeb02]

Being a fan of welcome home I was pulled into the fandom and “game” with its pretty colors and interesting characters but an issue arises

Clown’s (the creator) has stated that their boundaries keep being pushed because some of y’all can’t control yourselves, for the love of whatever ungodly essence possessed anyone to disrespect someone who was just trying to have fun with their own project they tried to share— respect them, they worked hard on welcome home and we barely got a majority of the story and people are pushing and pushing about it calm your shit

Be respectful, they’re just one person trying to live their life and make a fun arg

Stop pushing it

#welcome home #clown #welcome home arg #welcome home puppet show #serious post #tumblr psa

[my-quirk-is-fred]

IMPORTANT. DO NOT SKIP.

A doc has been dropped on existing members in the YBG community, outing some of them as predators.

And here:

Please read these through, this person has worked hard on compiling evidence and dealing with these vile pieces of shit for months. This needs to be heard, at least listen for the victims. I know it’s uncomfortable, but the victims LIVED it.

SHARE. SHARE. SHARE.

Edit: the master doc had been mass reported and was taken down. For copies, contact this person here

#your boyfriend #your boyfriend visual game #your boyfriend peter #yandere #tumblr psa #psa #awareness