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In case you don’t remember the scene, here’s a gif 😊

basically the amazing digital circus

1. Iris

2. Tyche

3. Nike/Aphrodite (because one of us says one thing and the other...the other)

(although the order could probably be played around with honestly)

Oh look, a new phishing scam! Dunno how they got the weird anon/not anon thing going at once, but whatever bug they're exploiting, it's clever.

SCAM SIGNS FOR PEOPLE WORRIED

They're asking for email verification through anon. You know, the thing Tumblr users can opt to turn off. Legitimate Tumblr staff would have a banner at the top of your screen, like the kind when you first MAKE an account, not something that users can opt in/out of.

"If you did not create an account with us, please disregard this message" sent to my Tumblr account? The one I have definitely created and am currently accessing to read this? My dude.

Hey, that's the old Tumblr colors. That's original True Blue from like 2017. Why would official Tumblr not use the current color scheme?

On top of that, Tumblr HAS a @support blog. Why would there be an account with support-random generated number?

Now if you're thinking "who is this ask even fooling?" It's email users. It's people who have email notifs turned on. This would show up as a "You got a message!" in someone's inbox, looking like a legit message, verified as coming from Tumblr itself, with a link embedded.

Hey, @support, you're being impersonated. That's against TOS, right?

Bonus tip: If you ever get a message you aren't sure is a scam or not, highlight a paragraph of it and put it into Tumblr's search bar. Chances are, they've mass-sent it to like 10+ other people who can spot things like this.

Pasting the plain text of the ask below the cut for that reason:

Those staff impersonation posts where you're getting tagged in the post telling you to verify your account by paying money or else it'll be terminated?

Yeah, it's this same scam thats been around for over a year now, so no, unfortunately it's not new, they just changed their script to try and perform a different variation of their scam. :)

They just left for a while then came back trying something a little different this time. I'm sharing this post so others (mostly the new people) know what this old version also looks like incase it pops up again as well.

Please make sure you check out both versions of this scam here via my Scam Exam(ination) post where I talk about just how dangerous it can be falling for this scam:

Here is also how it looked 6 months ago as it was being sent in DMs!:

Please bee safe and stay scam aware, and remember that you did not pay to sign up and use tumblr! You will never have to pay for account issues!