#vavuskapakage

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🎅'tis the season

*not my design/code

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Let's be clear.

If a random user you never interacted with pop ups asking and begging for money.

If this user keeps harassing you and others over and over.

It's a spam.

It's a scam.

Maybe 1 out of 100 could be legit, but most is people trying to fraud you.

The obvious bot behavior tells you everything.

Most messages are a copy paste of each others, the pics are stolen from news websites, the beneficiaries of the crowdfunding are people living in the US or in Europe. GFM doesn't work in Israel/Palestine, the transaction tooks months and most banks are currently blocking money movements to Israel and Palestine. Even if one of them is legit, what makes you think that a third party that isn't mentioned anywhere in the post and you don't know would actually give the whole lot of money to the person in need?

And also... Why the fuck choosing tumblr? A obscure indie social media that does not have the numbers, the visibility or the money flux of Tiktok or Instagram? Why they have to harass random people on tumblr and not Instagram influences or Tiktokers?

Easy peasy:

Instagram filters spammy messages

Tiktok does the same (as far I remember, I haven't used it for a while)

Twitter is full of Elon Musk and Maga bots, so it's not their target

Bluesky have a strong anti-spam policy

Instagram and Tiktok would require a bigger effort into posting images and videos, so the scammer have to search/edit/AI generate the right content every time, while tumblr doesn't require to build a consistent public imagine for their Gaza/Palestine persona.

Tumblr is infamously known for the proficiency of bots and for the ineffective staff menagement.

It's easier for a person with malicious intentions to perpetrate their schemes here.

Protect yourself.

Don't fall for this.

Donate to reputed charities instead.

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Logan — The town's mayor & head of the werewolf house | Moonlight Peaks Wiki

Brook Logan is the mayor of Moonlight Peaks and a werewolf — head of the Logan family that anchors the town's werewolf side, and Saga's fath

I'm devastated to learn that Mayor Brook isn't a dating option in Moonlight Peaks...

C'mon. Orlock - the drunk vampire daddy - IS a dating option while grumpy handsome mayor is not??? Insane!

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You can't persuade me that Lucy and Mina weren't girlfriends

Wynona Ryder as Mina Murray and Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

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Nosferatu (1922, Murnau)

Nosferatu (1979, Herzog)

Nosferatu (2024, Eggers)

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Tumblr has ALWAYS cycled through various types of scam bots. Most of us probably remember the porn bots, the Rayban scammers, the bots asking for donations for insuline. It's extremely..interesting.. that none of those are getting posted any more, and have been completely replaced with these copy and paste Gaza/Palestine messages/notes.

I have never been a fan of pornbots or Rayban scammers, but I’ll take them over “I showed you pictures of dying babies now give me money” bots any day.

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This makes you think about something wrong, right?

The paid blue check is a way to gain legitimacy but mostly to avoid being turned down for their obvious bot behavior.

Verified scams: how Meta’s blue checkmark legitimizes 67 thousand fraudulent ads·Maldita.es - Periodismo para que no te la cuelen

In the first quarter of 2026, 170 profiles with a blue checkmark have published 67,000 fraudulent ads on Facebook and Instagram…

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Apparently we are racist, because the obvious bot behavior of Gaza/Palestine scammers is explained by some ignorance about basic internet literacy.

"Gotcha fam" users on tumblr are claiming that gazans and Palestinians don't know that spam makes people suspicious and upset.

Ok. They don't know internet rules, but:

1. Know how to run multiple tumblr accounts, buy badges and also the people to contact to have more visibility

2. Know how to menage a GFM and international online transactions

3. Know how to use a VPN and mask their location (most of the GFM results located in USA and Europe - if they truly are Gazans or Palestinians - and it's a big IF - they are using a VPN)

4. Know how to create a database of contacts and a software that allows multiple and massive tags and asks on a social media

All of this while reaching out vetters blog and ignoring their anti-spam rules (if they are legit).

So, we are racist if we believe real Gazans and Palestinians would know better on how to use internet. Because those bots aren't real Gazans or Palestinians. They are just bots.