Scam Posts PSA
Recently over the past few weeks, I occasionally get asks for donations or sharing donation posts. While I'm happy to help, I begin to feel odd about some of these asks, especially if other users claim that they are scams in the notes.
The most recent one is this from @/superbpatrolprincess:
There were people in the search who tried investigating this user and other possible scammers who send these kinds of asks. The user @kyra45 had tried contacting them about the validity of their claims, along with the fact that the ask was suspiciously similar to another ask made by @/aniasiasstuff.
By a suggestion from another user, I tried contacting the user about their donation post. But they blocked me shortly after. The pinned donation post on their blog was posted on July 10th. I failed to get a screenshot of that before they blocked me, but the earliest post in the search for superbpatrolprincess was made on the same day that post was made where the scammer contacted another user through asks.
Update, I used my alt to find their blog, here's their post:
Due to this, I'm not going to share any future donation/mutual aid posts if the user sends me an ask and if their account was made very recently.
Also, let me know if there are other donation posts that have similar odd activity, please. I usually share these as I don't have much to give, but I also don't want to put any of my followers or other visiting Tumblr users in danger.
