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Starting off strong, a comment on an text post this time. A message urging me to reach out, something wrong with my account. Of course ignoring the fact I have perm for anyone to message me.🚩

So, of course I reach out. I will say I've never seen this exact type of scam happen before, no props tho, they are still a scammer.

Tumblr doesn't just, "not notify" people, and support wont ask you to move conversation to a different platform. Scammers do this because it's a little easier to fake this stuff. 🚩🚩

if you know your friends are the other reporters, why haven't you sent them to also "clear my name"?🚩

Fake email screenshot. Here, play spot the 6 difference. ("Unsubscribe" isn't one of them)

There is a lot of emphasis on sending the report number but it doesn't actually do anything to me, just a heads up.

Ok, let me address this now. Ari Levine works in marketing and sales for Tumblr not support, you can easily find this info with one Linked-In search. 🚩🤦

Anyways.. I dusted off 1 of 8 alt accounts and got to work

Do I know why his messages look like that? Hell no, but I guess it's to make it look like I'm talking to a bot. That or to look really hacker-y and cool and total dont-eef-with-me vibe.

While it's also to log such information, Tumblr doesn't need your country for this purpose🚩

He made no comment on the missing birth year or my question.

Ooohooo, have I contacted him fo'sure.

The Tumblr account made sure to message me almost around the same time so I wouldn't think it was the same person on both ends.

Also reassuring me this account did the same procedure and the user is a-ok, a method to lower your guard and trust them.

Again, more with the script-y text to look professional.

Let's rapid fire this: Not my ID at all 🚩No "Wallet AID" or whatever should be connected to my account🚩Different report reason listed🚩 Nothing in Tumblr's Terms of Services, Privacy Policy, or User Guidelines is something like this brought up 🚩Bad Grammar🚩

Pretty sure email verification counts as owner proof? I could be wrong.

"I do not have access to you login credentials at any point," yeah, that's assuring.

Here we are at the meat of the scam. It's no brainer changing your account's email to that of one you do not own is a sure fire way to loose the account. The moment you confirm changing the email, they will issue a password reset. The reset link will be sent to the new email-the scammer's email-and you will get locked out.🚩🚩🚩

A foundation, organisation, website, whatever, have their own email address. Tumblr's would be @/tumblr.com and only .com, not .co, .org, .ca, etc etc. Only official emails and employees will have these addresses, it helps provide dead giveaway for scams.

Now, I have 2FA, so even if I followed through, they would have needed the authentication code to set a new password.

Anyways, I made a throwaway because I was curious about the further extent of this scam.

We skipping a few messages, I was just stalling the scammer while I set that up.

I genuinely do not know what happened to that account, it just disappeared off the face of Tumblr the moment I hit enter. Decided to act like it was my main account that got wiped, maybe the scam was deeper that I thought?

I never got more info on whatever "Wallet AID" means, my guess is "stored payment info" idk man.

I just start messing around

Immediately got blocked after that. I try to do my best and report everything I can, but the conclusion depends on Discord's choice to act or not.

Glad there are timestamps this time, shows you how long this stuff goes on for and how fast scammers are responding despite the length of their messages. Just proves they are pasting a script.

Fun fact, you can still edit DM's even if you are blocked:

Yeah, I've been writing this whole post from Dec 14th to Dec 16th, a good 192 hours from my supposed banning.

Score: 14🚩 1🤦

Oh, right, the birthday and current location was a lie lol. I won't just give that info to a scammer.

I have watched it like 4 times now and still figuring out how to word myself. It's insane the amount of foreshadowing for that episode alone. And the end lore drop was just amazing.

Since the last episode I have been curious why Caine is so invested in the real world. Of course there is the obvious of, "that's were the humans come from," but he is solely focused on C&A. I debate with just myself why it's the case since ep 6, and now just have more fuel with everything now.

I have seen so many theories on Jax's situation in the real world, although, the main take-away is consistent: No one, or at least, no good person is out there waiting for him. The memory segment was also the coffin's final nail on the "Jax is an NPC" theory.

Which, speaking on theories, so many of them were rapid-fired down in a mear 30 minute span. I don't know all of them, but the big ones for sure. But know it makes you wonder were it is going.

What I'm going absolutely crazy about was Kinger. His confusion to what Gangle and Zooble were telling him should've clued me in. We know he was in clarity when questioning who Able was and knowing something must happen first in order to leave, we see him loose clarity leaving the fort calling for Pomni. Maybe not total clarity because the door was open, but enough to have some level of calm, rational thinking.

The end reveal was also crazy, not just for the name drop (and subsequent accusation to Caine) but the fact that Kinger even remembered something while standing in a bight room.

Tin hat theory zone of my padded white room: