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eventuallyaugust · 6 days

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"Your Streams Matter: Music boycotts for Palestine and why you should join them" — an informative thread by @/hanonmyphone on Twitter

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eventuallyaugust · 7 days

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Some links to fundraisers that scammers have been using images/text from for almost two months now. This isn’t all of them, but it’s the ones currently being stolen by scammers who are impersonating the real people who need help.

“Emergency: help me evacuate my family from Gaza”

“URGENT HELP help my family to evacuate Gaza”

“Save our Souls and Dreams, Help Us Evacuate Gaza.”

“Save my family from being the next victims in Gaza”

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eventuallyaugust · 7 days

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Tips to spotting scams based around Palestine fundraisers

With the latest round of scams being based around Palestine fundraisers, this guide is meant to help you get the idea on what to look out for if you share posts about it often. This post is not to say all fundraising posts for it are scams! It should be understood that there are verified sources to donate to support Palestine and also legitimate methods to giving aid as well that can be found if you search around. It’s just unfortunate there are now accounts here that have chosen to rapidly take advantage of users who don’t know about their scamming.

Here are some basic information about these scams and the accounts themselves:

- The accounts pinned post is usually only a few hours old or a few days old. It starts off with “urgent help needed” and then bullet points of the story. This story is real, but it’s been edited and stolen off a real fundraiser as copying/pasting it into your preferred search engine should show where it’s from.

- They may have a linktree link that says it’s their GoFundMe link but it’s not and it goes directly to a PayPal account that has a name they’ve likely stolen off someone else. It may be one that’s been listed as a known fake name used across multiple accounts

- All the images used are likely from the same fundraiser they’re stealing images from. The story is usually edited to sound very vague because they removed most of its details.

- The ask they send you is usually the same thing as their post and may have a stray pair of quotation marks showing it’s from something they found and wasn’t typed by themselves.

- Often sends asks after you’ve shared a post about Palestine or more. This is a targeted ask and searching it should reveal if it’s been sent by other blogs who used the same pfp as the sender.

- They share a few Palestine posts but never anything else.

- Known to send hateful asks to you if you call them out too much. They’ll also block and hide comments that point out the scam.

- Will comment on mutual aid posts to spread their scam if asks don’t work easily.

I know this isn’t much of a guide, but I hope it helps.

#Palestine #scam

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eventuallyaugust · 7 days

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How to spot a scam blog

A very simple guide to figuring out if the blog messaging you is a scam:

Was you sent an ask within some time of sharing a specific type of post such as a trending topic or subject? - Usually scam accounts target particular posts and will spam asks to everyone who shared it. The ask may relate to certain events going on or more. These asks are always sent to many users all at once so it’s suggested to tumblr search part of the ask and see if its been sent by other accounts labeled as a scam or accounts with similar style.

Is the account relatively new? - More often than not, the accounts sending the asks are about a week old or even newer. They haven’t been made too long ago and often send asks within hours of being made. If you have timestamps turned on, you’ll be able to see the date something was posted. A fresher account is usually not going to be one who’s finding you unless they are searching tags and saw your blog.

How many posts are on the account? - Scam accounts rarely have many posts on their blogs beyond the initial pinned post. All their posts, being very few are very little, are most often just posts from a trending topic they looked up or a popular tag they decided to look through. They will share only a few and then make no further posts. This is to pad out their blog to make it look used but it’s easy to see how new the blog is if you scroll to the end.

Are the shared posts fitting a theme? - Scam accounts try to share posts based on the scam they’re trying to run. This means they’ll share posts related to the topic of their choosing and then stop once they’ve shared a few. Most of these posts come from the OP themselves and not from someone the blog is following though in rare cases they’ll find a person to reblog from so they don’t look suspicious.

Are the reblog dates accurate? - If you use timestamps, find a post the blog shared and check ‘Other notes’ and see if the reblog date matches the date that is listed on the blog itself. Often, scammers will backdate posts to make them look much older then they really are in an attempt to deceive people into thinking they’ve used tumblr for months or years.

Is the url auto-generated? - Not always seen from a scam account, but scammers often just use auto-generated usernames because it’s quick and easy to do. But real accounts may have these too. It’s just a thing to keep in mind.

Is the url familiar or similar to one you’ve seen before? - Scammers often try to copy their older accounts by using usernames based around previous scam attempts. It becomes obvious after about a while and usually makes it easy to figure out the scammer is back again. This isn’t always from scam accounts as regular accounts may do this for reasons.

How often do you get asks? - If you barely get asks and suddenly keep getting mutual aid asks it’s very likely you’re just a scammers latest target and they’ll keep spamming asks. This means you’ll consistently get the same style of asks from a brand new account that shouldn’t know you unless they found you in tags. You will keep getting these asks on a daily basis. You will eventually always get these asks.

Did they request you to message them directly? - On rare occasions a scam account will want you to send them a direct message and then they’ll just ask you for thousands of dollars on the spot.

Does your bio say no mutual aid asks? - Scammers don’t read/don’t care they will ignore that and send you asks anyway that won’t stop them.

Short version: More often than not the blog asking you for money is a scam if you don’t usually get asks for money from brand new accounts.

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#one look at that cat and i know exactly what i want to search for #this pic right here is the human counterpart of that cat #HAHAHHAHHAHA #... idk what i'm doing with my life right now #why did i even exert an effort searching for this pic????

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eventuallyaugust · 7 days

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Hello, I am from Gaza, due to the shortage of medicine in Gaza, my mother who is a type 1 diabetic and was supposed to undergo urgent eye surgery, has not been able to get insulin or any medical care for the past three months. . Some members of my family fled to the southernmost part of Gaza (Rafah) in tents. But my parents and sisters have nowhere else to stay. They are forced to stay in the Nuseirat refugee camp, which has been bombed since the beginning of Christmas. "I am on my knees asking for your donations. Please help me. where you can.

If you got this text in an ask, this is a scam ask. The “ shows the text was just stolen from a real fundraiser and it’s been used for almost two months now. The one sending the ask is a scammer who likely lives in Kenya and is impersonating Palestinians. They are not the person who runs the GoFundMe and keeps using the real name in varying ways.

Please don’t donate to brand new accounts who send this as an ask.

#scam #Palestine #scam alert #scam warning #be warned #no one is free until palestine is free #no one is free until we are all free #no one is free until everyone is free #hands off rafah #we are not free until we are all free #all eyes on palestine #all eyes on rafah

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eventuallyaugust · 7 days

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Scammer pretending to be a Palestinian v3

Now running their scam for about 2 months straight, this scammer is known to take their posts from real GoFundMe’s (Examples of used content) and reuse them as their own even going as far as impersonating the real Palestinian who created the original fundraiser. One of the common tactics is that you’ll get their asks if you regularly share Palestine content on your blog. Please check to see how old the pinned post is and see if you find its contents elsewhere if you search part of the post in a preferred search engine. Be aware that the scam accounts listed here are not the owners of any GoFundMe’s and will usually claim they have one pending. Their pfps are almost always images stolen off the fundraisers too.

As of 4/20/2024, here is the current list of scam accounts pretending they are someone in Palestine needing mutual aid:

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Not pretending to be in Palestine but from somewhere else using the names the same scammer uses:

(TBA)

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And here is a growing list of names the scammer has used. These may often be reused for different scams later on so keep an eye out for them when you get asks from relatively new accounts:

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How to report scam accounts: Report -> Something Else -> Illegal uses or Content -> Phishing

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Please keep in mind this post isn’t to say all Palestine mutual aid blogs are scams! Rather, this post is meant to explain that there is a scammer pretending to be one and stealing posts from real ones. They will always reblog only a few Palestine posts and then reblog nothing else aside from answering asks.

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If you happen to find a new one, please let me know! This is a new version of the previous one.

#reblog #scam alert #scam warning #no one is free until everyone is free #free gaza #free rafah #no one is free until palestine is free #no one is free until we are all free #no one is above the law #palestine will #save palestine

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“omg you’re so creative. how do you get your ideas” i hallucinate a single scene in the taco bell drive thru and then spend 13 months trying to write it

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eventuallyaugust · 7 days

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me: reblogs anything

the green bar that pops up telling me I reblogged something:

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eventuallyaugust · 8 days

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just finished watching twinkling watermelon and i fell in love with seol in ah on sight (not DEF bcs i kept seeing my girl lee chaeyoung in her 😔😔)

#seol in ah #i'm just fooling around am i not???#lee chaeyoung loml #i miss having no academic stress on me #nakaka course crisis naman yung comdraf #nonchalant majors >>>>> oa minors #← bakit ba kasi may popular course pa???? eh ie ako????#anyways #great kdrama #1B/10 would def in my recs #great casting #fell in love with eun-soo and in-ah

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eventuallyaugust · 8 days

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Please follow, share, and interact with Madleen @palestinianmother's videos on tiktok to help bring more awareness to her campaign. Here is the link to her tiktok page:

Please also share her gfm link and donate if you can:

#palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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eventuallyaugust · 9 days

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It’s now exactly one whole year of war in Sudan.

A year of displacement from homes, separation from loved ones.

A whole year of killings, rape, looting and destruction inflicted on Sudan’s people.

The start of the nightmare.

The “SAF” ( Sudanese Armed Forces)

The “RSF” ( Rapid Support Forces)

The origin of the RSF militia

What did the Janjaweed do?

RSF is still Janjaweed.

The RSF loots Sudanese people.

Women have borne the brunt of war.

The UAE has blood on its hands.

These aren’t just statistics, these are real people.

A call for action.

Protest for Sudan.

Sudanese voices to centre:

Follow Sudanese accounts and accounts that talk about Sudan:

@KushiteDictator

@BSonblast

@MohanadElbalal

@Moh_Gamea

@MuhammedKambal

@Halayalkarib

@ReemWrites

@ElbashirIdris_

@NasAlSudann

@dalliasd

@AlMigdadHassan0

@missinchident

@YousraElbagir @saroyahx

@Kandakat_alhaqq

@_hudsonc

@ckaratnytsky

@sudan_war

Slides credits

#free palestine #free sudan #keep eyes on sudan #eyes on sudan #silent genocide #sudan genocide #sudan crisis

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eventuallyaugust · 10 days

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Just a genuine reminder, simply liking and reblogging posts or just paying attention to what's happening in places like Palestine, The Congo, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, etc. Does help!

If you can't donate or boycott because you're a minor or in a situation where you can't afford to try signing petitions and spreading awareness so others who can afford to can have information

Edit: there are a lot of good suggestions for what to do in the reblogs that I forgot to mention

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eventuallyaugust · 10 days

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I have to tell you guys something.

you see these asks?

They are scams.

They are bots made by scammers to try and make a profit during a GENOCIDE!

If you see these types of asks in your inbox, report the account and delete the ask.

If you really want to make a difference in helping Palestine, do your daily clicks in arab.org! donate esims and use trusted sources when donating.

#from the river to the sea palestine will be free #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #fuck israel #fuck bots too #please try to reblog this to spread the message #i hope these scammers rot in hell

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eventuallyaugust · 10 days

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Israel has reportedly started using recordings of crying infants, crying in fear and it doesn't appear to be stock footage either, to lure Gazans to their death.

I've seen the footage and it's genuinely horrifying. It sounds like a real, terrified baby.

#free palestine #death mention #what a fucked-up strategy #i wish karma get worse to whoever thought of that #free gaza 🇵🇸#free gaza #support palestine #palestine forever #save palestine

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eventuallyaugust · 11 days

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I have midterms today too haha😂 so I won’t be online all week..

good luck on your midterms, anon 😊 🫶

#eventuallyaugust #august's asks !!#august answers !!#august !!#physics killed me #i'll do better with calculus

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