Scams On Tumblr, What To Watch Out For.

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Hello sorry for tagging. I am very sick, my asthma is at its maximum level, my nose freezes, I have no medicine or food. I am in bad shape financially, I am a black disabled, who uses multiple medications, I pay for my food and lodging

Unfortunately I do not have all the resources to keep me safe, that is why I need your help, whatever you can contribute to me will be of great help.

Okay kids, are you ready for a lesson in SPOTTING ONLINE SCAMS????

*please don't message this person or harass them-- i do recommend that you report and block them, however.

right now it's incredibly important to give time, attention, and money to online fundraisers. but it's also incredibly important not to let scammers take advantage of that and steal money that could actually save lives right now.

firstly-- if we go to this person's blog, and navigate to "archive--"

this person's blog has only existed for a few days, only has a handful of generic posts (many reblogged multiple times,) and made their first reblog the same day that they posted their "fundraiser" post. this is a MASSIVE red flag.

please also note that neither their ask nor post actually mention palestine or gaza at all, but it's still tagged with "free palestine" and "gaza."

though this one should obviously be taken with a grain of salt, it is also worth noting the poor grammar here, because this can be (but isn't always!!!) another red flag. Note also that all the details are really vague and don't quite make sense... user describes "enduring cold" and their "nose freezing" though it's the middle of the summer. This user says that they're "sick," but doesn't really offer any further details about this. This user says that they need money for "resources," but don't elaborate on what exactly they need. They vaguely elude to a need for lodging, caretakers, and medicine, but don't actually give us any details-- despite this they have a "$1200" goal. What is this specific goal of $1200 for? Is that the cost of their medication? Overdue medical bills? Cost for rent this month?... They also apologize in their ask for "tagging" me... but they didn't tag me. They sent me an ask.

Another red flag is that their link labeled "Fundraiser link" leads directly to a Paypal donation page rather than a gofundme or anything else. If someone chooses to collect aid through paypal, venmo, etc. instead of through a gofundme, that's not a huge issue in and of itself... but it is fishy that it's mislabeled like this.

And if we GOOGLE this user's tumblr name or paypal name, we can find results like this:

This also led me to find them on @/kyra45's blog on their list of current scam accounts.

Despite all this, they have close to 100 reblogs from well-meaning people trying to signal boost and ask for donations on their behalf.

With the current situation in Palestine and the amount of actual, legitimate fundraisers and donations being circulated right now, for Palestine, Sudan, the Congo, or otherwise, it is more important than ever to be aware of people who are trying to take advantage of the situation for their own personal gain. Whenever possible, please take the time to do some due diligence when you receive messages like this and check to see if a fundraiser is legitimate! It always sucks for someone to be the victim of a scam and lose money to someone playing pretend on the internet... but it sucks even more when that money could have gone to people in actual, acute, dire need.

Here's some more information about spotting scams on tumblr! Shoutout to tumblr user kyra45 for compiling this, and for all the other hard work they do-- thanks.

Here's an actual, vetted, and legitimate campaign that could use your support. After receiving this ask, I went and donated. If you have the means to do so, it would be amazing if you did so, too.

[ see ALL gaza funds campaigns here ]

No...no the machine D:

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Who do you think is the most huggable Shinigami? Who do you think is the most kissable Shinigami? (p.s.: me gusta tu arte mucho :D)

Aw gracias ^^

Si hablamos hablamos del Shinigami más abrazable ... Yo estaría entre Gelus, Rem, Gook tal vez incluso Ryuk y Midora pero estos tres últimos lo veo difícil..

El más besable ... Probablemente sean solo Gelus y Rem son los únicos que veo que aceptarían eso... dependiendo de quien eres pero si descartamos eso incluiría a Midora y a Gook ( el ultimo por ser lo suficientemente perezoso como para no hacer nada al respecto) y Ryuk te anotaría en su nota junto a Midora si hicieras eso supongo, así que no los incluyo abiertamente c:

Eso sería todo ^^

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Aw thanks ^^

If we talk about the most huggable Shinigami... I would be between Gelus, Rem, Gook maybe even Ryuk and Midora but I find these last three difficult.

The most kissable... It's probably just Gelus and Rem who are the only ones I see who would accept that... depending on who you are but if we rule that out it would include Midora and Gook (the last one for being lazy enough to do nothing about it) and Ryuk would write you down in his note along with Midora if you did that I guess, so I'm not including them openly c:

That's all ^^

Is so cute AAaaaa 💕✨✨💖✨💕

It looked amazing ^^ thanks

Fanart for @syn-synn3rs ^^

Wicked i think...

i made this in Whiteboard , one of them appear me deleted :c lucky I got time to make a screenshot

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A possible wallpaper for your cell phone (it was supposed to be a wallpaper, but then it became the super form of Boos, which then became his normal form)

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