Look familiar?
Bots and scammers comb through popular tags on Tumblr and mass-send asks with gofundmes or PayPal links.
These blogs often only have three posts to them, or have only ever reblogged content from blogs that have very similar names.
Praying on your empathy, they give a massive schpiel about who they are, how they're impacted, and how they desperately need your money or for you to reblog so others send them money to "help" them.
The money goes to scam artists anywhere but Gaza.
There is very few people actually "vetting" these blogs. There is no official vetting process. Do not trust Tumblr blogs or Google documents claiming to vet these posts.
If you want to help people in Gaza, please head to places like World Central Kitchen. This is an organisation that's actually helping people in Gaza by providing food and water with their Chefs for Gaza initiative.
i don't normally share my advocacies beyond reblogging, but I've gotten enough asks enough times I find it important to share in the midst of the silly fandom/shitpost reblogs. I don't fault ppl for rbing in good faith — help is always appreciated — but official orgs are the safe way for users like me who don't have time, know how or energy to verify asks, reblogs and such. "$5 even if they could be scammers" is a dangerous mindset, we may as well have those $5 used to organizations that, with 100% certainty, have the infra and exp to distribute it to more families. I have not donated as frequently as I'd like due to financial capacity, but I've donated locally.
Since I'm not from the US, I only know of Palestine red crescent, UNRWA, but I've heard of BDS and Doctors Without Borders as well as other orgs w good records. I'll link the charity rater site later on, but hopefully the above thread is helpful for now.
If donations aren't also in the cards, please fight misinformation and educate yourself whenever you can.
