Hi everyone!! Yes it is I, Bandi.
I just got scammed into losing access to my account and the scammer messaged a bunch of people in my name:
So sorry to everyone who got involved in this!
Thankfully I only lost 1 day of using Tumblr and nothing else, so this was the safer outcome. The actual Tumblr Staff helped me gaining my account back very quickly.
If you have encountered something similar or you actually interact with the scammer, here are some tips from a redditer that also helped fix this - you can find the actual conversation thread under this link, I copied the redditor's guide verbatim because it's a Good guide:
Here's what you should do:
1.) Contact the real Tumblr support at https://www.tumblr.com/support and explain what happened. Don't try to contact them more than once, or it might be mistaken for spam. They should respond with a week.
2.) You will first get a confirmation email from Tumblr support, then later a proper message. They will ask for your account name, your email, and the email it was changed to. They will restore your proper email, allowing you to reset your password and get your account back.
3.) Don't panic if you see your account is deactivated. Mine was temporarily deactivated too after contacting support.
4.) Once you get your account back, check your messages. The scammer will have likely used your account to try to con more people while they had it.
5.) Change your passwords just to be safe, especially Email and Discord. Unless of course you already have different passwords for everything.
Tumblr itself also knows about this scam and many more (you can find their very thorough list about them here):
Be safe out there. 🫶 And if you blocked my account because of this, I understand.
