#scam awareness

[lunaleescult]

SCAM ALERT @madeleinechadwick588

This dumb fuck tried to scam me, nothing about their story made sense lol

[kathyrealmstales]

Aweeee, They hate me! ^^ Im blushinggggg

(This was not over time, this was all spammed at the exact time)

[blupple-pie]

HEY FRIENDS

Soooo guess what happen to me just a few minutes ago hmm you know what I’ll just show you

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Yeah so this here now so No one else that’s finds this post falls for it either and so people can report this bozo though it appears that have deleted there tumblr which maybe I should not have exposed them immediately but hey they tried to tell me someone with anxiety and who double checks everything, I quite literally looked up with Tumblrs security was used through discord and was told it’s a Scam….so if this happens to you let them talk, get your evidence and report them first

I’m gonna just put as many Hashtags do this gets to people

[diamondwritesauthor]

See, it's a lovely comment, detailed, picks up on facets of the chapter...

But those last couple of lines? Yeah. And as it's now been deleted by AO3, so from that I think that I can reasonably conclude scam.

They're becoming more subtle.

[milescrypt]

Apologies for the random message. I think we're having connectivity problems on one side or the other. I have a confidential matter to discuss—mind if we DM?

we have lost another to the tumblr scam

[iheartpigeons1]

Hello letting you know I got a scam message from a user, if you get a message like this simply block the person. The message was similar to the scam listed below I found on tumblrs “how to avoid scams” page. If you get a message like this it is a SCAM just block the user.

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“We noticed that you reported xxx for Fraud Activity/Phishing Links”

This is yet another common scam we are aware of. The message indicates that you should reach out to someone else on another platform. We will never ask you to contact someone. Like above, if someone reaches out to you with that, report and block them.

The actual message and account is below. This is really upsetting because a fellow artist got their account hacked.

[iliketrainsverymuchneeoow]

My Old Account Was Hacked!!

My old blogs, @blockthisaccountanddontinteract (aka @iliktetrainsneeoow before it started trying to scam people and I got desperate to warn people about it since I couldn’t delete the blog), as well as @ser-madeleine-cookie, were hacked and now there is a scammer trying to scam my mutuals and following through my main blog. (I’m not sure if he started on my roleplay blog as well, but I’m not taking any chances here. Block them both and report any dms as I am now fully logged out of that account.)

Here’s what happened in detail.

So, a mutual of mine recently got hacked by a scammer ( @itsstrawberrypawz is the mutual, aka @strawberrypawz1007, the hacked account, whose old hacked account is now deleted 🥳 ) and the scammer reached out to me through her blog.

Being naive because I love my mutuals and my Tumblr account, when the messenger over on @strawberrypaws1007 told me they had gotten scammed recently and they tried to report the scammer but “accidentally” reported my account instead because the “scammer’s profile looked very similar to mine” and sent me a counterfeit email from “Tumblr” with a Discord handle attached, saying I should “convince him” to not suspend my account for the one false report, I caved to the scam, and messaged him.

Image of the message attached:

They put fear in me with the thought of my precious Tumblr account, my anchor in the waters that are life, my EVERYTHING, getting suspended in 12 hours if I didn’t comply, so being stupid, I messaged him. All this over one suspension? Yep. Cuz I was STUPID. Don’t be like me. Don’t fall for this.

The Discord Dude ™️ was a rando posing as a Tumblr Support worker named Ari Levine. He told me to follow guidelines, and I agreed. Soon, he convinced my naive self to change my Tumblr email to one he gave me (not disclosing the email) and then log out on my iphone (though it didn’t need much convincing because, again, I WAS STUPID-), so that he can “check for suspicious activity” on my account. Allegedly… Do you hear me rolling my eyes???

This was the discord account, but I think the scammer changed the username:

What’s odd is that this account had only been a member of Discord since the EXACT day I was sent to message him… Odd, right?? BUT I was TOO NAIVE to CARE. UGHHHH NOTICE THE WARNING SIGNS PEOPLE!!! DONT. BE. LIKE. ME!!!!

Besides that, this “Ari Levine” fellow was very suspicious. At one point, he asked me for payment to “appeal my account getting suspended”, to which I declined as I do not have the means to pay, and also, WHY would I pay for an account I made for free, so we settled on me showing my overall balance on my card and recent bank transactions to prove I’m “not scamming anyone.” After changing my Tumblr email and not paying, he then stopped responding. Yay. And I was left to wonder what had happened. Without a Tumblr account. Until I remembered I was still logged in on my ipad, by some miracle, as I didn’t log out on there. I quickly rushed in to change my email back and put in my password to confirm… only to be met with “incorrect password.” So that didn’t work. After multiple attempts. At first, I thought I forgot the account. But now it’s become apparent to me that the hacker simply used a password reset email to change it so I couldn’t access it. DAMN it.

I also considered using a password reset email, but it would be of no use, as my email was changed to the scammer’s and there was no way to access his email inbox, obvsiously. I also couldn’t delete it. Because that ALSO requires the password. Dang.

For a while, I forgot about it and went to calm down, since I was crying hysterically and panicking and feeling suicidal… But the next day, my heart sank when I saw people getting messaged by MY account… by someone who was certainly not me. It was sending the same messages that I was sent. Through me. To my mutuals.

Since I couldn’t delete the blog, this led me to have no choice but to change my username to something obvious like “BLOCK THIS ACCOUNT” and change my description, banner, pinned post, etc. on it so people are aware it’s a scam. I did everything I could to warn people about the main scammed blog before I logged out for good, but I forgot to even CHECK my @ser-madeleine-cookie roleplay blog and warn people there, too… I genuinely hope no one got scammed by what used to be my account... PLEASE BLOCK @blockthisaccountanddontinteract AND @ser-madeleine-cookie OR REPORT THEM!!! THEY ARE SCAMMING PEOPLE!!! At least, the first one is. I’m not sure about the second, but it’s possible.

So yeah, that’s what happened.

@itsstrawberrypawz, whose hacked account got me into this mess in the first place, got the same messages as me, and went through the exact same thing. Only, she didnt have any access at all to her account after logging out. Luckily, we’re both okay now.

Stay safe, everyone. Don’t let yourself be fooled like me.

Ps: I forgot to mention I had made a second acount a few hours after I realised I lost the account, and then it got terminated?? For some reason?? Probably because it was called @iliketrainsneeoow2 which was my other account’s name but with a 2 at the end, but still. I got no email about it. Nothing. I just got unceremoniously logged out… So I had to make a third one (this one) using my apple account… hoorayyyyyy FUCK YOU SCAMMER WHEN I CATCH YOU-

[prettyp1nkmushr0oms]

anyone who follows @cleobitchra SHE HAS BEEN HACKED DO NOT FALL FOR THE SCAM IF YOU GET A DM FROM HER ACC!!!!

just block and report and hope she can make a new one :(