A fun new way to check if a blog is a scammer.
Did a blog send you an ask?
Do they have a pinned post that's 2-4 months old? A few weeks?
Are they asking for PayPal?
Does that post also have reblogs throughout that time?
All of the above? Good! Now let's have fun. :)
Turn on tumblr's timestamps and open up the notes.
From there scroll through the notes, pausing every 5 days (a week) and open up the post of the person who reblogged it. Just one post from that day will do.
Scroll through another 5-7 days, and open up another persons reblog. Rinse and repeat until you get to the very first reblog.
You see, when you reblog a post, it saves the post in the state that it's in at the moment it's reblogged. Think of it like tumblr's own version of a 'snapshot'. So, with that in mind...
Even if the original post is edited/changed...
That post someone shared... wont ever change.
And when you check the reblogs, you'll see things... like this! :D
(Hint: They like to change their 'real names' a lot. :) )
So yeah! Fun new way to see if a 2-4 month old account with a lot of reblogs asking for PayPal is a scam account or not.
You can't unfreeze time. There's no escaping the inevitable.
Here's a post talking more about this scammer.
