tiktok ads: listen to this music. its kinda good but we still interrupted your fyp's flow for no reason

youtube ads: hey dont you want to download safari or perhaps drive a kia?

tumblr ads:

I'm not even banned.

Vague details.

Doesn't just start with the reason for contact.

You submit help to www.tumblr.com/support or help.tumblr.com. NOT the links provided in the photos.

the proof of email photo is crunchy as hell. Looks old too.

Why do i have to contact them to confirm my innocence. lmao.

On Discord, not Tumblr, or even WordPress.

And that's after I flat-out told them both that I hadn't seen any consequences for their so-called reports, and that I'd heard of a scam going around that was suspiciously similar to what they were telling me.

So! Don't contact any Discord names they give you either, I'm thinking.

Here's my conversation with the bot/scammer/whatever:

Them: hey Can i talk to you

Me: I have some time, yeah; what's up?

Them: Hello, sorry to bother you. I was scammed on Tumblr by a profile that I mistakenly thought was you. Because of that, I reported your account and asked a few friends to do the same. I sincerely apologize for the misunderstanding and hope you can forgive me. Any help in resolving this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. [Note: While I haven't transcribed OP's screencaps, this is almost exactly what they say.]

Me: Well, the good news is, I haven't heard anything from Tumblr, so it seems to have had no impact on me. The bad news is, I'm pretty sure I recall hearing about a separate scam where people would be like, "I accidentally reported you but I didn't mean to!" So uh.

Them: I already made a counter report to tumblr through email saying it's a mistake but here is what they responded to me. As you can see it is quite alarming cause they mentioned a permanent ban on your tumblr account including your IP address, but it can be fixed as what they advise on the ticket report they also attached the username of the support you need to reach out on Discord uhovski_tumblr [Note: Maybe block and report this Discord account?] I'm so sorry for the trouble

[End conversation]

Yeah, I haven't said anything back; I expect if it were a real person on the other end, they might have actually noticed that my first response to the "I accidentally reported you!" schtick didn't fit the script.

If you need to contact a company with whom you have an account to verify something, ALWAYS start from scratch via the official methods listed on their website and documentation!

Scammers will inevitably try to redirect you to contact the company through them. There are sometimes tells that it's false, like the company name being the username rather than the domain, but that's not always true these days.

You can always shortcut all doubt by insisting on going through official channels from your end. No REAL customer service will ever object to this. At most, under real circumstances, it will slow things down a little to verify.