Can you help by sharing my story, reblog, and donating if you can, to keep hope alive for me, I'm type 1 diabetes. I am calling on your humanity and kindness to help me raise $340.
This amount will enable the approval of an insulin pump that will help me better control my diabetes. Although I am happy that I have been approved the hardest part is the money to pay for the pump and equipment, please your contribution is important. Be blessed ♥️
Hello, this is a longshot saving life call, I am Vivian Mayende from Gaza. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin, just an injection for today to save my life please I beg. I was diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes and due to the current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week. My donation link is attached in the pinned post, I might have sent this ask to you earlier but kindly consider donating and sharing. This is the only option I have at the moment to save my life from going into a coma.
You're STILL doing this? Get lost, scammers not welcome.
This is a longshot, would you be willing to help me get my insulin? I'm down to my last pen and its pretty much close to being empty.Nt asking for much only need $370 rn to save my blood sugar. please help me with a small donation or share my pinned any help can save my life.Please help & Blessings ❤Thanks
Greetings, I understand this might be a difficult request, but I am a Palestinian citizen facing an urgent and critical situation. I have type 1 diabetes, and due to the ongoing crisis in Gaza, I am unable to access my necessary insulin (Humalog) injection. I am reaching out in desperation for assistance, hoping to secure just one injection today, which is vital for my survival. To cover the cost of the insulin I require for the week, I still need $263. I sincerely apologize if I’ve already sent this message before, but any donation, no matter how small, would mean the world to me at this moment. You can find my donation link in my pinned post. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and may you be blessed for your kindness and support. ❤️🇵🇸
Let's see here...
Blog is empty except for pinned post
Claiming to be vetted and verified yet has no links to the accounts who supposedly vetted them
"Type 1 diabetic asking for money to cover [specific brand of insulin]" is a ridiculously common scam tactic on here
My family is still staying in half of the church that wasn’t affected by the bombing because there is nowhere else to stay other than tents. They are limited to one small meal a day and one shower a week. They are sleeping on the floors, but no one can sleep since there is bombing everywhere around them. Even when there is no bombing, they can still hear the loud buzzing sound of the military planes above them, which would keep anyone who hears it awake. Along with everything, My grandma has diabetes and osteoporosis, so she can’t walk. She has to take her insulin medication along with many others; however, she has run out of many of her medications.” Am on my knees requesting for donation. Target $450
SCAMMER.
Also has been operating under different blog name. The paypal account has been shut down.
Nobody is out there asking for such a paltry amount of money as that when food alone is so exorbitant.
hi! I am desperately in need for help. I need my insulin to bring my blood sugar back down. It’s $300 That’s all I need. I’m not asking for a windfall, just a little help, please.
Be blessed 💓🙏🙏💓
DONATE AND SHARE.
nigga you are stealing art and barely even hiding the watermark
Note: Before submitting an ask/submission for a 'new scam', please check out the index and/or also search for what you might need via [tumblr]'s handy dandy 'search' function found on this blog, thanks!
👉 The Scam Index can be found here!👈
Within the Scam Index you will find a wide variety of related content made to help users (like yourself!) identify scams, and learn how they work. Included in the index is every Scam Exam(ination) post I've made, as well as a collection of very helpful Tips and Tricks! This includes: how to reverse image search, how to identify a scam blog, how to see if a blog is a scammer via reblogs, how to report phishing websites and email addresses, and so much more!
If you want to learn about a scam, the index is where you want to go!
Note: Please check out the index before sending an ask or submission related to a "new scam you've never seen before", as I may have covered it already! I also suggest checking out (and sharing!) the "scams to bee aware of" post which has a collection of pretty much all of the well known scams going around at the moment. :) Helping others learn about scams and how to avoid them is a beeutiful thing to do!
Helpful guides on spotting scams v4. (by @kyra45)
Notable blogs to follow:
@kyra45 - If it's a scam, she's got a post on it. :)
@u-reblogged-a-scam - Another scam identifying blog.
@ai-art-thieves - Scams + AI busting? Couldn't ask for a better blog.
Why this blog exists:
This blog is to serve as public documentation to any and all internet scams that have either been reported to this blog, or that I have encountered myself. Anyone can share my posts with others regardless of the platform they share it to (reddit, discord, facebook, ect). I will try to provide any and all evidence of how and why something listed here is a scam, so that others know what to look out for and avoid it. After all, not all heroes wear capes, and knowledge is power!
Issues/topics you can ask me about:
You can send me questions or concerns about comments, DM's, or asks users have sent you if you are not sure something is a scam. I will do my best to reply to them ASAP. If I'm not online, or don't reply for a while, you can try poking @kyra45 who can also help you identify a scam.
You can send me information on new scams I have not covered yet in a previous post. (as mentioned above please check the index first!)
You can submit asks/submissions regarding scams going around that have since changed or been altered, where scammers are using new tactics that I have not covered previously.
You can ask me about certain websites not related to a tumblr specific scam. All I ask though is to please try and do some basic research first by googling things such as: "what is a task scam" and "free nitro/gift card" scams before asking me about them!
General questions, silly interactions, funny posts, and stuff like that are always welcome. I don't bite, I promise. I might not have all the right answers, obviously, but I can definitely try to help you find resources. :)
Issues Topics not to ask me about:
With the above in mind, please note the following:
Please, do not, I repeat, do not send me asks/DM's saying anything akin to the following, as this type of behavior will not be tolerated:
"I found a scam, please look into this fundraiser blog. <link>. This person has to be a scammer because no real person from Gaza/Sudan/<insert country> would be posting on/using tumblr all day to promote a gofundme/campaign website by sending asks/DM's all day."
"This person is totally a scammer because Gofundme/paypal/<campaign website> ect... doesn't work in <country>!! It has to be a scam!! Everybody knows <website> doesn't work there! Boost please!!"
"This person is spamming my username in comments on posts. I've blocked them on another account already. This has to be a scammer right?"
Please note that I am not in any rightful position to validate/vet any blog that is running a fundraising campaign, regardless of how many side accounts it uses. Nor am I in a position to call them a scam just because they may also use PayPal. The use of PayPal along side a fundraiser is usually so they can get funds quicker or because gofundme banned their campaign because of assholes reporting it as not being 'legit'.
This does not mean they are running a scam.
An account @ spamming users out of desperation also does not make it a scam either. Spam does not equal a scam. If they are vetted, and they spam you, harass you, threaten you, or guilt trip you, please report them to their vetting organization (gazavetters for example).
If someone can't show me hard, concrete, 100% foolproof evidence of a fundraiser being a scam, and their only 'evidence' is them saying: 'well so and so said it's a scam' or 'I heard from x blog that all mutual aid blogs are a scam' or 'well <thing> doesn't work in-' I'm deleting your ask/ignoring your DM.
If @kyra45 and I can spend hours and hours reverse image searching over the years trying to find evidence of certain campaigns being a scam and even we can't find anything? Then cases are it's not a scam.
The whole 'fundraiser blogs are scams' thing was started by hateful people here on tumblr. Finding information on how that rumor started isn't hard, either. But sadly people will believe something just because 'big blog x said so!'
if you don't like getting those asks or DM's, just block and ignore.
But please, don't spread hate and be a spiteful person.
Please read this post for more information on this.
Thank you.
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What this blog Offers:
1. Gathered Evidence
Evidence I will try to provide in my posts will include things such as:
Username changes in an attempt to make others think that they are a different/new person.
Images of them changing their 'real name' repeatedly.
Alternate accounts running the same exact scam.
Alternate accounts running different scams. (but the same scammer)
PayPal.me names that are being used with these accounts.
(this is information they list themselves. Nobody is being doxed)
Sources of artwork (if found) if the scammer claims to be an artist.
2. Gathered Resources
With every Scam Exam(ination) I make detailing how a scam starts, what the red flags are to look out for, how the scam works, and what the end goal is. This is to help users learn how to avoid it, and if possible, ways to recover from it. If I've not covered the scam already myself via an Exam post, I will provide links to posts written by fellow tumblr users, and from trusted websites such as Bitdefender, fbi.gov, malwarebytes, reddit, and so on.
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Final thoughts: Trust your gut. Do your research. Make sure to look up usernames and copy/paste asks into tumblr's search bar to see if other accounts are using the same story. Especially in the case of blogs asking for just paypal.
If you have doubts about the legitimacy of the asks you receive from people asking for mutual aid, I'd suggest checking out this post or this post by @el-shab-hussein. (someone who is Palestinian and is also well trusted amongst scam busters like @kyra45 and myself), which contains links to vetted/verified fundraisers for both Ghazzan families and Sudanese families. :)
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List of documented scammers: Part 3 (outdated)
Archived for reference: Part 1 and Part 2
Some notes from the blog owner below:
Hi everyone! @slenbee here!
First I'd like to note that:
This blog is not run by an official [tumblr] staff member.
Second, while I do not openly ask for money in any shape or form for what I do, I do have a ko-fi. With that said, if you, my dear reader, wish to bestow upon me a coffee via your own free will, that's your choice and you are more than free to do so. I can't stop you. :)
I will never, ever, openly ask for money. And- honestly, I don't feel right accepting money for something I feel should be easily accessible and public knowledge to begin with.
But a gift is a gift, and it would still be more than happily accepted. Just know you might make me cry some happy tears while you're at it lol.
To give a small back story about myself:
I joined tumblr in 2014. Yup, there's not much to me other than that until the last few years. I got into scam related content about 2-3 years ago. It started with watching the youtuber/streamer Kitboga who's known for the rather infamous 'DO NOT REDEEM' clip. If you've never seen it, it's definitely a classic in the scammer rage history books. Just know, it's very, very loud.
From him, I learned about other youtubers that covered scams, and so I got into watching channels like ScammerPayback, TrilogyMedia, and JimBrowning.
Seeing so many people fall for scams made me realize something:
There's not enough public information out there about scams, or how they work from start to finish. That's why people fall or it so often.
And I want to try and help change that.
Here's some of my past personal experiences:
My grandma almost fell for a scam on the phone pretending to be her bank and I was able to explain to her how and why it was a scam and how it worked, and she was able to avoid it.
An older friend of mine on discord who plays a mobile game with me nearly fell for the Norton Lifelock email scam, and in mentioning offhand that they weren't sure if this 'email was legit', i was able to save them and let them know that emails like that were scams.
Another friend of mine nearly fell for the 'click this link and play our mobile game and we'll give you free in game credits for trying it!' scam, which ends up being a virus that steals your data.
And, well, there was the incident recently with Roblox and Youtube doing literally fuck all to ban a Free Robux scammer who was using a 3rd party website to literally phish information out of children and possibly install a virus on their computer. But y'know 'we can't do anything about stuff that happens off our website.' 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
And thus Bee's internal flame to document and bust scams was lit.🔥
I feel any and all information about scams should be public and available to anyone and everyone in an easily digestible manner that people can understand. It shouldn't be something that's tucked away in a private page you have to search for or go 5 pages deep into google just to find because the first 3 pages are full of sponsor links or unhelpful FAQ pages that don't answer your questions at all.
And don't get me started on AI bots answering questions...
So thus, I made this blog! I try to document scams here the best I can, and if you can't find information here, you can find it under my scam tag on my main blog.
That's about all for now. If you have any questions or comments, my DM's are always open. :)
Hello, this is a longshot saving life call, I am Vivian from Gaza. I am here to request for your support to help get my insulin, just an injection for today to save my life please I beg. I was diagnosed with Latent Autoimmune Diabetes and due to the current situation in Gaza I'm unable to get my insulin injection as a result I'm here begging for little financial support to help me purchase insulin for this week. My donation link is attached in the pinned post, I might have sent this ask to you earlier but kindly consider donating and sharing. This is the only option I have at the moment to save my life from going into a coma.
DOCUMENTED SCAMMER
I literally do not have the mental physical or emotional bandwidth to entertain your fucking nonsense right now
