Furytheartdragoness

IF YOU GET THIS TYPE OF MESSAGES, IT IS A SCAM. BLOCK AND REPORT WHOEVER SENT THEM TO YOU

what will most certainly happen if you do contact them:

they will try to convince you your account has been compromised somehow. maybe they’ll tell you they “accidentally reported you” by mistake because they thought you were someone else.

they will then tell you not to worry because they “know someone who can help”

this is where they ask you to contact a random shady ass person outside of tumblr, most certainly on discord

****very important, NEVER EVER contact any random person for help with your tumblr blog or account. contacting tumblr directly via their support center is the ONLY way you can actually receive help regarding your blog/account****

this shady random person, if you contact them, will ask you to click a random link they send you (DO NOT CLICK ON IT) and/or they will ask you to change the email you registered your tumblr account with to the new email they give you

if you ever click on the link they give, you risk getting whatever malicious things that link has

if you change your tumblr email to the new one they give you, your tumblr account is now registered under their email. once your tumblr account is registered under their email, they have full control of your entire account—and chances are that you’re not getting your account back—this is how they hack people, and also how they have access to people’s other personal informations.

AO3 team will NEVER contact you via your fic’s comments section!!!!!!!!

if you get a comment from someone claiming to be from AO3 in any way, shape or form, IT IS A SCAM.

if you get a comment from someone claiming they work with AO3 and that your AO3 account has been compromised or restricted somehow and that you must contact xyz or open a link they give, IT IS A SCAM.

they want to hack your account and/or steal your credit card/personal information (because the link they want you to click on will require your login info and/or your other sensitive information!!!!)

*the same scam tactic can be seen on tumblr where these scammers claim to be someone from tumblr team too

DO. NOT. FALL. FOR. IT!!!!!!

here’s AO3’s official statement about it

Date Posted: July 23, 2026

AO3 has recently seen a wave of comments claiming to be made by the "AO3 Trust & Safety team", notifying you that your account has been restricted. These claims are not true. These comments are not being made by real AO3 volunteers and your account has not been restricted.

AO3 volunteers, including the Policy & Abuse committee, will never communicate with you through comments on your work. All important communications from AO3 will be sent through the email associated with your account. More general announcements will be posted on our official social media accounts or published as news posts on AO3 or OTW.org.

If you receive one of these comments, do not click on any of the links in it, reply to it, or interact with it in any way. The links in these comments lead to sites asking you to verify your identity by providing payment information. This is a common credit card scam. AO3 does not ever ask users to provide payment information, and the Policy & Abuse committee will never comment on your works asking you to "complete an identity verification process".

If you encounter one of these comments or believe your account has been compromised, please view the instructions under the cut!

not sure if it’s “new” but in the past couple days, my friends and I have each been receiving about dozens of this exact message with the exact same script from various random blogs.

but instead of empty blogs that are very obviously bots, these blogs all have profile pictures and reblogs on their blogs like any other normal blogs. although if you scroll down far enough, most of them are very recently created, with the first ever reblogs from their blogs being from less than a week ago — which makes me think they’re newly created blogs with reblogs and profile pictures, so that they’re not very obviously bots anymore. but they all use the same script.

obviously I did not contact them, and I have all of them blocked and reported. because I know if I did contact them, they would try and convince me that my blog wad somehow “compromised” one way or another, and then they’d say I’d have to contact this random guy on discord (instead of tumblr support) and then I’d have to change the email I associated my blog with to their new email that they gave me. then boom. the second my blog was registered with their email, they had control of everything, and chances were that I’d never be able to get my blog back. or worse, they had access to my personal information too. it’s all the same scam tactics.

do NOT fall for them. do NOT contact any shady, random person on discord or any other platform. the ONLY way you contact support when you have an issue with your blog is directly through tumblr support. not a random guy on discord.

I’m not disclosing their url because even though I’m 90% sure it’s a bot, I don’t want to accidentally send people to harass an innocent person in case of the blog having originally belonged to an innocent person before they were hacked. because when these scammers/bots hack someone’s blog, they use the blog to further scam other people, since the blog was originally a legit blog, it won’t look “empty and obviously a bot”.

FIC WRITERS AND FAN ARTISTS BE AWARE I received an email that I actually thought might have been from someone I'd been in contact with before, but turns out that no it wasn't. There were a few red flags, but the last reply sealed it. TO BE AVOIDED.

Each image has Alt Text if it's hard to read from the screenshots.

The Red Flags:

- Where is the money coming from? - Replies were not very personalised or responding directly to queries at first. - They're not age gating anything, and asking if they can use Mature rated works. - They're allowing fanworks on a site with adverts that'll pay them - Chat fucking GPT

Please feel free to share this warning far and wide, they're likely reaching out to a lot of creators to try and build a platform base. I absolutely do not trust anyone who used ChatGPT to find authors to *not* just feed our works into the machines. Also, profit from fanworks is dangerous to us all.

I mean seriously, how can they claim they won't allow AI then a couple of emails later say they used Chat fucking GPT to find me?

They're clearly expecting to profit from the ads on the site if they can afford to offer $100 to people signing up as early adopters, and especially if they're planning to do a big paid ad campaign for the sight too.

There's a reason AO3 doesn't have ads or make profit from hosting fanworks, and it's important to protect fanworks as a whole.