I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.
If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.
For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:
(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)
But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:
"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."
Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."
Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:
That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!
Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?
So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.
Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.
I assume they use strictly anon spam now because managing a fleet of backup blogs was resulting in some scam cross-contamination. (Yes, that's the same "Mosab" as op's first screenshot.)
WELP lol
I went to look at the blogs in the screenshot
This is aboodfmly
I have thought this for a while but this pretty much proves that @/gazavetters is either composed of the most gullible morons in the history of the world (unlikely) or heavily involved in the gofundme scamming
which means that one of the top vetting blogs on this website has enabled the theft of, at this point, hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe in excess of a million, that should have gone to real Palestinian aid organizations
I am going to scream
THANK YOU for saying it. Hey, here’s a guy who has been harassing me on multiple accounts and threatening me:
also important to note, paypal DOES NOT WORK in gaza! not to mention, there have been cases of palestinians being scammed out of their money by their campaign managers that were supposed to save them. there was a post explaining it and going in depth, but it escapes me at the moment
gofundme inherently relies on the trust that thr organizer WILL give the money, because gofundme doesnt work in palestine either.
always donate to organizations that are verified, like doctors without borders!!
