i tell people stuff

[my-silly-poker]

this is just a front through which I deliver information to people. I am no one, I don't want any personal gain from this, and I don't intend on ever elevating this blog past being a delivery point for scam PSAs

I credit scam busting blogs like Kyra45, Mangocheesecakes and Neechees who do a lot of work compiling information like this

Please help us redirect attention given to scammers to people actually in need. They are what I do this for

Many organizations and gofundmes for Gaza

Verified fundraisers for individuals in Gaza put together by @palestineasdiqa on Instagram and Twitter

Click to donate for free using ad revenue

Participation and political resources for US, UK and Canada

USPCR's toolkit on activism for palestine

(if you know of any reputable Insulin related charities for the Insulin scam posts, please let me know)

[my-silly-poker]

Would you possibly know if this is a scam?

https://www.tumblr.com/omar88family/779562540535627776

A deactivated account that came before, a use of a lot of emojis. When I look at the reblog by 90's ghost, the updates keep changing. The dad has heart problems and a liver problem and requires blood units. Months previously the brother required surgery I believe and also more blood units. I got dm-ed.

The gofundme is lacking in detail.

The Paypal is named Xana Doodles which seems odd.

I don't know if it's a red flag, but I'm wary of any blog that has numbers in the name at this point.

I really don’t know but to be honest I’ve unfortunately stopped interacting with these on tumblr entirely. I get a lot of messages from fundraisers that are vetted and I can see that they’re on the vetting list, and yet they are clearly bots judging by the sheer volume and rate that they are sending messages. I 100% don’t think that there’s any greater vetting conspiracy going on but I think that some farms are definitely getting through the vetting process. I would only interact with fundraisers that are associated with a person who can verify them directly, like a long-standing social media account with a good history

[my-silly-poker]

Hi, I was wondering if you can help verify if this Tumblr ask if legitimate?

I want to help, but I'm worried that this could be someone that's trying to scam me and others.

https://gofund.me/8dce001c

I honest to god have no idea. It doesn't have any red flags that I recognize. I recommend referring to user-vetted gofundme lists and seeing if someone is on there.

Personally, I have unfortunately stopped engaging with most gaza gofundmes at all unless they look really, really honest. I've had a person who is apparently on a vetted list contact me from multiple different accounts within an hour in a way that is clearly botted--no human being would be doing that so rapidly. I also random and abruptly started being tagged in posts from different accounts at the same time, as if I just suddenly got added to a tagging list that they all use. It all seems so sketchy that I hesitate to engage unless a person seems really, really obviously a real person, such as being connected to a social media account that was in use before the war and confirming that that is their gofundme.

[maximumdinosaurbouquet]

Vetted and Verified Fundraiser 💞. Donate and Share💞💞

Please donate and share, your support will help me get the life-saving Humalog insulin injection I desperately need.

Hello everyone, I'm Diana a Palestinian and I have been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, a condition that requires a delicate balance of insulin—a precious resource in my war-torn homeland of Gaza. I am in a constant battle to secure the insulin that is essential for my survival. With medical resources running low and hospitals overwhelmed, getting the medication I need has become a daily and dangerous challenge.

My situation became even more critical when bombs struck dangerously close to my home, leaving me with no insulin at all. With pharmacies closed and aid unable to reach our besieged area, I found myself in a desperate situation. Without insulin, my blood sugar levels skyrocketed, putting me at risk of falling into a coma.

I am asking for your support. Your help could truly mean the difference between life and death for me. Please, help me obtain the insulin I so desperately need.

MY GOAL $194/$600

KINDLY CLICK HERE TO DONATE AND SHARE TO HELP ME GET MY INSULIN INJECTION HUMALOG FOR THIS WEEK AND SAVE LIFE IN GAZA

Please continue to support me by donating directly or sharing the link to let others know. Feel free to help people in difficult and miserable times until the dark days are over.

[my-silly-poker]

This is a scam; they are not vetted or verified as they claim to be

[my-silly-poker]

Hello. Sorry if I might be intruding but can I ask if you can check some Tumblr accounts I encountered claiming to be Gazan victims?

I may have reblogged one of their posts and now they're following me and messaging me basically asking for donations.

And now I'm greatly concerned if I might be falling for them by spreading them.

https://www.tumblr.com/ahmeed-gaza

https://www.tumblr.com/kawfamily1 Also, they both DMed me this and I'm not sure if the accounts are connected: "Honey, don't ignore my message, maybe because you're relaxing on your favourite couch or because you're drinking your favourite warm drink in your home or favourite place, but you're ignoring my message, and I'm now homeless and food with my family. I wish I had a house or a residence, so don't ignore me. Any donation he makes will restore our hope and enables us to buy what I need for my children. Please look at us through the eyes of your heart and look at us through the eyes of mercy. Be merciful and merciful, and ignoring helped me deliberately, very sad💔😭😭"

I’m not qualified to do legitimate vetting and this shouldn’t be considered a callout post to publicize, but I wouldn’t personally trust them. If they’re both sending you the same exact text (which it seemed like you said they did?) that’s a massive red flag that I would leave immediately. Also said text is just extremely guilt trippy in a way that I would expect scammers to use

The first one isn’t verified but looks to me like it comes from a generally trustworthy source with how it’s set up by someone in a GFM-supported country who introduces themselves; the second one, from what I can see, is vetted by association

But if they both sent you the Same copy/pasted text harassing you for attention despite not being related… that’s extremely fishy and I have no idea what’s going on there

My general rule of thumb that I personally follow is to not feel bad about turning away from things that seem suspicious. There are real and verifiable fundraisers out there that need help. You can’t reblog every single fundraiser post—and if you do, it wouldn’t be effective because your followers will just get emotionally exhausted from it. There is only so much attention and so much support in the world that is available to be given—there’s no shame in being careful that it goes to the right place

[my-silly-poker]

I've read your post on scammers acting as Gaza victims. All the points you've said, align with what I'm going through myself, but the problem is that these are legit "gofundme" links they post and asks I get immediately after a follow. Is there anyone to find out if they're legit? It feels weird knowing so many families are reaching out to a practically invisible blog for help.

hi !

honestly there's a really weird combination of things that I can't tell the legitimacy of. What I do is look for proof of verification from a reliable blog and that the verification actually looked at them. This means:

You see the post where a person explains that they've spoken to this person personally and confirm that they are real, OR they are on a vetted list such as this or Operation Olive Branch which are managed by dedicated vetters

They are either on one of the lists or SOMEONE SPOKE TO THEM AND YOU SEE THAT SOMEONE SPOKE TO THEM; don't just trust reputable blogs simply reblogging things. "not vetted but x user reblogged it!" isn't enough for me

Generally, my process is:

Don't trust any that just have a string of random words as their username. That part is easy

Don't donate to paypal unless you trust the person with your life. PayPal is not protected. GoFundMe protects donations and would refund them if a campaign is found to be fraudulent, so although fraudulent GoFundMes can exist, most are generally safe. PayPal is not safe at all.

See if they claim to be verified on the post itself. Those that are will often display it publicly, because it's important.

If they claim to be verified, they usually link to it. Do NOT TRUST any that claim to be verified without seeing the verification yourself!

If they don't have verification linked on the main post, check the notes; you will probably quickly see people tagging it as "#not vetted" or explaining/linking to the vetting in the reblogs

Fundraisers that haven't been vetted can still have a lot of green flags that prompt me to reblog anyway; for example, a person in Palestine cannot create a GoFundMe unless they have a foreign bank account, and therefore many go through beneficiaries. You can sometimes see that some GoFundMes are believably hosted with an active and responsive beneficiary who explains their involvement. But if someone claims to be hosting a GoFundMe from within Palestine, then that’s extremely fishy: GoFundMe is not available within Palestine unless they’ve gone through loopholes that aren’t available to everyone.

These are trustworthy users that currently or have previously had participation in vetting and have contributed to public resources or have resources of their own:

el-shab-hussein

nabulsi

90-ghost

- Quite frankly, 90-ghost's usage of PayPal & frequent "my paypal has been deleted so here's my siblings" scares me and looks like a huge red flag, but I've seen snippets of evidence that they are a real person who has appeared in news articles on palestinians and etc)

[thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001]

who is this

[thegleampt2fromtheglowpt22001]

oh thats cool. windows 11 lets u search using the Mask of Agamemnon now

[my-silly-poker]

Hi, I hope you're doing well. I'm writing to you with a heavy heart and an urgent request for help. My family is in a very danger situation due to the ongoing war, and I've launched a GoFundMe campaign to save them. Could you please share my campaign post from my profile? Each share could be a lifeline for my family. 🙏 Feel free to share it in any other social media platform if you would like. Our campaign has been verified ⭐️ by operation olive branch, and is entry number 26 on their spreadsheet. Also with ⭐️ Project watermelon,line 249/(212) on their spreadsheet. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank you in advance for all of your support and kindness.

.

[el-shab-hussein]

Important post

I was getting suspicions but now I'm very 100% sure that most of this website's userbase hates Palestinians and not passively. I'm now fully 100% comprehending that the vast majority of this website's userbase passes by any mention of Palestinians and seethes to their core and the only reason little of it came out was because you thought there might be social repercussions for attacking Palestinians in our time of need. All it took was an easily debunkable false accusation to get people to attack people undergoing genocide as well as a genocide survivor, and now he's been stopped from doing the work he has spent months doing. I will not allow this experience to go undocumented or forgotten. Those who partook in the harassment know what they've done and the unspeakable repurcussions of it. I expected this honestly, because that is exactly what happened to BLM and other Black rights activists since 2014; a cycle of unbelievable praise before horrendous abuse and harassment once they stopped being deified. I also saw the way people treated Moataz Azaiza after he evacuated Ghazzah, and expected the same to happen to Ahmed, who also survived unspeakable things for months in an accelerated genocide, and got harassed and attacked by the THOUSANDS on tumblr after this harassment campaign was put out. I will not forgive any one involved, especially not for what they've done to Ahmed.

Here's a collection of links to posts about the issue in the past couple of days, in chronological order I think. And under the cut will be screenshots of the initial post that I saw that brought this to my attention.

[Post 1] [Post 2] [Post 3] [Post 4] [Post 5]

[Post 6] [Post 7] [Post 8] [Post 9] [Post 10]

[Post 11] [Post 12] Edit: forgot one [Post 13].

These links are absolutely non-exhaustive and there's more shit these people have said that I don't have the patience to go collect and link here.

Honorable mention for white victim-playing after leading a hate-campaign against Palestinians surviving genocide:

[el-shab-hussein]

If you have ever benefitted from my or another Palestinian blogger's posts, especially but not limited to my and nabulsi's vetted fundraiser list, reblog this post. The baseless accusations got thousands of notes, and the damage will not be undone if this doesn't reach the people who got misinformed.

[my-silly-poker]

Hello gamers,

The insulin guy is unyielding. I use this blog to inform people of scams they’ve interacted with so they can be better informed in the future.

Scam blogs on tumblr are quite common. They consist of brand new blogs that send copy pasted messages to users to ask for donations. Blogs like kyra45 do a lot of work calling awareness to these blogs. Keep an eye out for signs like this:

- Recently created blog (try to scroll to the bottom) consisting of generic posts reblogged from popular or trending tags

- Use a name of randomly generated words (tumblr offers this button on signup)

The Insulin guy in particular often uses link tree, PayPal, the same header, are often BLM themed, and reuse the name “Mwita” often

[eggyolkperona3000]

Master doc that contains different resources and support for many countries including Palestine, Congo, Haiti, Hawai’i, etc ((op is underneath the link))

Master Document

Master Document

[xenonsense]

[ID: Tweet by Nanu's eyebrows 🇹🇹❤️🔱… @ Seaweedlagoon which reads: "I'd appreciate if you guys would spread around my master document that not only contains support for Palestine but other countries as well, I'm updating it with resources for Puerto Rico, Lebanon and Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow!" With a link to the above doc/End ID]

[my-silly-poker]

gaza scam warning

Hey gamers, recently there have been a number of scam blogs on tumblr claiming to be Gazan victims. They've been making a number of iterations of the exact same blog and story but with different names and sometimes different PayPal links.

Thus far, the content of these scams are being stolen from 2 real fundraisers. Please lend your aid to these people who need help instead of the disgusting scam farm

Help Haya Orouq's family escape Gaza

Help Rawan AbuMahady's family escape Gaza

These are examples within the past month which have been deleted.

Ma22ya

Khalilhan

jovialsuitdonutai

miniaturepostkingjaiur

Donation scams on tumblr are extremely common and anyone who has a tumblr account will encounter them at some point. They throw together a brand new blog with a story of needing aid, then use bots to go through follow lists and post notes to send messages to random users. Scambusting blogs like kyra45 do a lot of work to track and call out these scams when they surface.

Scam Spotting Tips

They send an ask often accompanied with a follow despite having never interacted with you before. Ask yourself: How did you find your blog? These interactions usually come out of nowhere when you have no original posts or interests they could've found you through, because they're just going down the lists of random blogs.

They reblog just enough posts to make you think that their blog is in-use when it is actually only a day or a few old. Enable timestamps and try find the blog's oldest post; if a blog seems old but still seems suspicious, be wary of post backdating

They often disable or delete comments on their donation post to hide comments that call them out. Open the notes and see if it says "some replies have been hidden, blocked or removed." Blocked/hidden comments sometimes still appear in reblogs of a post but not the original, so open a random reblog and see if telling comments appear there.

It isn't unusual for the story and the ask to either be exact copy-pastes of each other, or otherwise have very telling suspicious details, such as: using different names, having different goal amounts, contrasting story details, etc.

Like many of the above examples, they often have a completely random string of words as their blog name.

Reverse image searching can be a helpful giveaway if it works, but don't trust it - scammers often steal images from private Facebook groups/profiles so people don't find the source and think it's original

When you receive an ask from a blog like this, reporting them for spam or phishing and reporting the PayPal account for fraudulent activity does help get these accounts taken down.

In name of the situation, here are great verified resources to support real people who need help:

Many organizations and gofundmes for Gaza

Verified fundraisers for individuals in Gaza put together by @palestineasdiqa on Instagram and Twitter

Click to donate for free using ad revenue

Participation and political resources for US, UK and Canada

USPCR's toolkit

[my-silly-poker]

I tag people who've reblogged these posts to help spread awareness, with the link to your reblog for convenience in case you want to delete it. I do this for literally hundreds of people, so please don't feel like you're being individually called out or something, Im just trying to spread awareness so that people don't get scammed; a lot of people just don't know and this stuff happens all the time

(i used to just message this to people directly but doing it this way is so much faster)

I mostly do this on a whim, but to support other hard working scambusting blogs I really recommend following people like kyra45, mangocheesecakes and neechees!

[my-silly-poker]

babycupcakecolor Began 3/18/24 Stolen from Rawan AbuMahady

@chaosjakk xxx

sweatythinglight Began 3/19/24 Stolen from Nisreen Shaheen @treahollow xxx

asneta Began 3/18/24 Stolen from Rawan AbuMahady

@queenofzaldrizes xxx @araaro xxx @propalahramota xxx @omensoflucifer xxx @chiefkideclipselamp xxx @mossmanismoss xxx @3un015 xxx @thorndvst xxx @luckycloverforducks xxx @chara-burner xxx @trishfishseven xxx @verarev xxx @gayfilmbro xxx @shi-daisy xxx @thesilliest-littlefella xxx

[kyra45]

https://www.tumblr.com/salatonnkoringo/744276075549540352/hey-yall?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/smirahsshblog/744120427704614912/friends-please-the-situation-is-very-difficult?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/saudiasposts/743549111037460480/urgent-help-needed-please-help-my-family-to?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/rashidoraq/744403311389736960/help-save-a-life-please-help-my-family-to-evacuate?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/stupendousdreamsublime/744403435564285952/target-3100-donation-update-2847-3100?source=share

So I saw five today. Are they all scams?

Sources! For most of them anyway.

—

saudiasposts and rashidoraq are stolen from here

stupendousdreamsublime is stolen from here

Do not start a fundraiser for that account. They are not in Palestine and are taking advantage of anyone who doesn’t know they’re a scam art

Dunno about salatonnkoringo but I think they’ve been called out before for changing urls.

[sophia-zofia]

[kyra45]

Here is an additional screenshot from Mai’s Twitter account explaining the situation as well for those who do not use it:

The GoFundMe’s themselves seem to be open again (when I looked) though they likely will close once more.

[my-silly-poker]

gaza scam warning

Hey gamers, recently there have been a number of scam blogs on tumblr claiming to be Gazan victims. They've been making a number of iterations of the exact same blog and story but with different names and sometimes different PayPal links.

Thus far, the content of these scams are being stolen from 2 real fundraisers. Please lend your aid to these people who need help instead of the disgusting scam farm

Help Haya Orouq's family escape Gaza

Help Rawan AbuMahady's family escape Gaza

These are examples within the past month which have been deleted.

Ma22ya

Khalilhan

jovialsuitdonutai

miniaturepostkingjaiur

Donation scams on tumblr are extremely common and anyone who has a tumblr account will encounter them at some point. They throw together a brand new blog with a story of needing aid, then use bots to go through follow lists and post notes to send messages to random users. Scambusting blogs like kyra45 do a lot of work to track and call out these scams when they surface.

Scam Spotting Tips

They send an ask often accompanied with a follow despite having never interacted with you before. Ask yourself: How did you find your blog? These interactions usually come out of nowhere when you have no original posts or interests they could've found you through, because they're just going down the lists of random blogs.

They reblog just enough posts to make you think that their blog is in-use when it is actually only a day or a few old. Enable timestamps and try find the blog's oldest post; if a blog seems old but still seems suspicious, be wary of post backdating

They often disable or delete comments on their donation post to hide comments that call them out. Open the notes and see if it says "some replies have been hidden, blocked or removed." Blocked/hidden comments sometimes still appear in reblogs of a post but not the original, so open a random reblog and see if telling comments appear there.

It isn't unusual for the story and the ask to either be exact copy-pastes of each other, or otherwise have very telling suspicious details, such as: using different names, having different goal amounts, contrasting story details, etc.

Like many of the above examples, they often have a completely random string of words as their blog name.

Reverse image searching can be a helpful giveaway if it works, but don't trust it - scammers often steal images from private Facebook groups/profiles so people don't find the source and think it's original

When you receive an ask from a blog like this, reporting them for spam or phishing and reporting the PayPal account for fraudulent activity does help get these accounts taken down.

In name of the situation, here are great verified resources to support real people who need help:

Many organizations and gofundmes for Gaza

Verified fundraisers for individuals in Gaza put together by @palestineasdiqa on Instagram and Twitter

Click to donate for free using ad revenue

Participation and political resources for US, UK and Canada

USPCR's toolkit

[my-silly-poker]

I tag people who've reblogged these posts to help spread awareness, with the link to your reblog for convenience in case you want to delete it. I do this for literally hundreds of people, so please don't feel like you're being individually called out or something, Im just trying to spread awareness so that people don't get scammed; a lot of people just don't know and this stuff happens all the time

(i used to just message this to people directly but doing it this way is so much faster)

I mostly do this on a whim, but to support other hard working scambusting blogs I really recommend following people like kyra45, mangocheesecakes and neechees!

[my-silly-poker]

zuhuramar Began 3/324 Stolen from Suad Abdel Aziz

@karinasbaby xxx @katherineblackwood94 xxx @anonlemon xxx @oh-look-clouds xxx @elizabeth-forbes xxx @mexxs-blog xxx @the-clash-undergr0und xxx @xdogour xxx @neutralnas xxx @nbblacksheep xxx @b33viemm xxx @kaviiiiiii xxx @fruitbatz12 xxx @silver-of-dragons xxx @merebeast xxx @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabattery xxx @deadgenres xxx @harryhandstan xxx @faithisablubird xxx @littlebodyblgheart xxx @rowkhan xxx @mining-tea xxx @kalisseo xxx @roxannepolice xxx @bleakalien515 xxx

[my-silly-poker]

gaza scam warning

Hey gamers, recently there have been a number of scam blogs on tumblr claiming to be Gazan victims. They've been making a number of iterations of the exact same blog and story but with different names and sometimes different PayPal links.

Thus far, the content of these scams are being stolen from 2 real fundraisers. Please lend your aid to these people who need help instead of the disgusting scam farm

Help Haya Orouq's family escape Gaza

Help Rawan AbuMahady's family escape Gaza

These are examples within the past month which have been deleted.

Ma22ya

Khalilhan

jovialsuitdonutai

miniaturepostkingjaiur

Donation scams on tumblr are extremely common and anyone who has a tumblr account will encounter them at some point. They throw together a brand new blog with a story of needing aid, then use bots to go through follow lists and post notes to send messages to random users. Scambusting blogs like kyra45 do a lot of work to track and call out these scams when they surface.

Scam Spotting Tips

They send an ask often accompanied with a follow despite having never interacted with you before. Ask yourself: How did you find your blog? These interactions usually come out of nowhere when you have no original posts or interests they could've found you through, because they're just going down the lists of random blogs.

They reblog just enough posts to make you think that their blog is in-use when it is actually only a day or a few old. Enable timestamps and try find the blog's oldest post; if a blog seems old but still seems suspicious, be wary of post backdating

They often disable or delete comments on their donation post to hide comments that call them out. Open the notes and see if it says "some replies have been hidden, blocked or removed." Blocked/hidden comments sometimes still appear in reblogs of a post but not the original, so open a random reblog and see if telling comments appear there.

It isn't unusual for the story and the ask to either be exact copy-pastes of each other, or otherwise have very telling suspicious details, such as: using different names, having different goal amounts, contrasting story details, etc.

Like many of the above examples, they often have a completely random string of words as their blog name.

Reverse image searching can be a helpful giveaway if it works, but don't trust it - scammers often steal images from private Facebook groups/profiles so people don't find the source and think it's original

When you receive an ask from a blog like this, reporting them for spam or phishing and reporting the PayPal account for fraudulent activity does help get these accounts taken down.

In name of the situation, here are great verified resources to support real people who need help:

Many organizations and gofundmes for Gaza

Verified fundraisers for individuals in Gaza put together by @palestineasdiqa on Instagram and Twitter

Click to donate for free using ad revenue

Participation and political resources for US, UK and Canada

USPCR's toolkit

[my-silly-poker]

I tag people who've reblogged these posts to help spread awareness, with the link to your reblog for convenience in case you want to delete it. I do this for literally hundreds of people, so please don't feel like you're being individually called out or something, Im just trying to spread awareness so that people don't get scammed; a lot of people just don't know and this stuff happens all the time

(i used to just message this to people directly but doing it this way is so much faster)

I mostly do this on a whim, but to support other hard working scambusting blogs I really recommend following people like kyra45, mangocheesecakes and neechees!

[my-silly-poker]

saudias Began 3/3/24 Stolen from Haya Orouq above

@cherrimal xxx @inismor xxx @child-of-blood-and-ash xxx @jester-fangirl xxx @looloop xxx @hugscore xxx @klltsun-25 xxx @mmmyummytoaster xxx @bubbleanon xxx @starriki2 xxx @inacaelum xxx @nitevision2002 xxx @mimochondria xxx @imsogayhelpme xxx @outlying-hyppocrate xxx @phosphor-phantom xxx @bleakalien515 xxx @catsranboo xxx @satansdoorstep xxx @trans-leo-valdez xxx @wayward-admiral xxx @goldenroseeon xxx @matchboxmayhem xxx @borderlinehannibal xxx @pabloernesto xxx

[my-silly-poker]

gaza scam warning

Hey gamers, recently there have been a number of scam blogs on tumblr claiming to be Gazan victims. They've been making a number of iterations of the exact same blog and story but with different names and sometimes different PayPal links.

Thus far, the content of these scams are being stolen from 2 real fundraisers. Please lend your aid to these people who need help instead of the disgusting scam farm

Help Haya Orouq's family escape Gaza

Help Rawan AbuMahady's family escape Gaza

These are examples within the past month which have been deleted.

Ma22ya

Khalilhan

jovialsuitdonutai

miniaturepostkingjaiur

Donation scams on tumblr are extremely common and anyone who has a tumblr account will encounter them at some point. They throw together a brand new blog with a story of needing aid, then use bots to go through follow lists and post notes to send messages to random users. Scambusting blogs like kyra45 do a lot of work to track and call out these scams when they surface.

Scam Spotting Tips

They send an ask often accompanied with a follow despite having never interacted with you before. Ask yourself: How did you find your blog? These interactions usually come out of nowhere when you have no original posts or interests they could've found you through, because they're just going down the lists of random blogs.

They reblog just enough posts to make you think that their blog is in-use when it is actually only a day or a few old. Enable timestamps and try find the blog's oldest post; if a blog seems old but still seems suspicious, be wary of post backdating

They often disable or delete comments on their donation post to hide comments that call them out. Open the notes and see if it says "some replies have been hidden, blocked or removed." Blocked/hidden comments sometimes still appear in reblogs of a post but not the original, so open a random reblog and see if telling comments appear there.

It isn't unusual for the story and the ask to either be exact copy-pastes of each other, or otherwise have very telling suspicious details, such as: using different names, having different goal amounts, contrasting story details, etc.

Like many of the above examples, they often have a completely random string of words as their blog name.

Reverse image searching can be a helpful giveaway if it works, but don't trust it - scammers often steal images from private Facebook groups/profiles so people don't find the source and think it's original

When you receive an ask from a blog like this, reporting them for spam or phishing and reporting the PayPal account for fraudulent activity does help get these accounts taken down.

In name of the situation, here are great verified resources to support real people who need help:

Many organizations and gofundmes for Gaza

Verified fundraisers for individuals in Gaza put together by @palestineasdiqa on Instagram and Twitter

Click to donate for free using ad revenue

Participation and political resources for US, UK and Canada

USPCR's toolkit

[my-silly-poker]

I tag people who've reblogged these posts to help spread awareness, with the link to your reblog for convenience in case you want to delete it. I do this for literally hundreds of people, so please don't feel like you're being individually called out or something, Im just trying to spread awareness so that people don't get scammed; a lot of people just don't know and this stuff happens all the time

(i used to just message this to people directly but doing it this way is so much faster)

I mostly do this on a whim, but to support other hard working scambusting blogs I really recommend following people like kyra45, mangocheesecakes and neechees!

[my-silly-poker]

ougadyabudi Began: 2/25/24 Stolen from Haya Orouq

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