This has nothing to do with Tumblr scams, but I think you’d find this email I got funny. I thought scams like these were fake!
Hi there!
Anyone is welcome to send me things about scams that aren't on tumblr! All scams are welcome! :D
As for the email, even I still get these haha. I also get wacky ones like 18+ 'hot singles in your area' offers, senior living home/AARP offers, and the Nigerian prince inheritance or 'a distant relative in Scotland has willed you millions of dollars' type emails all the time in my junk email box.
But that's likely where I still use two emails that I made back in yee ol babby internet days aka 2004-2006. Even to this day sometimes I get around 200-300 junk email messages from a variety of different scam attempts a week on just the one.
When I don't feel like garbo (health wise) I try to go to the domain hosts and report them for phishing that way some poor sap that's not me can't be hurt by whatever scam they're peddling.
Which is what anyone can and should do if they're able to!
Especially with the fake instagram and facebook ones that say 'someone is trying to log into your account'
Here's an example:
"yes, me" lol.
See, no matter which one you tap, it will have you forward the email. And what people don't realize in doing this, is that it's forwarding the email to NINE DIFFERENT EMAIL ADDRESSES/DOMAINS.
Seen here:
Then what this does, is it saves your email in their system, and most likely puts you on a "list" for those domains and many other scam email peddlers, to then throw scam emails your way. :'))
I think that was my mistake yearrrs ago when I had this issue and I went about forwarding them the 'unsubscribe' version of the email. It does fuck all and just makes them send you more. lol.
It puts you on/signs you up for their own scam email lists and it sucks.
Don't be like me, if anything like I said, write those domains down (the actual website like "bloob.com" not the email address such as [email protected], you'd just want jangle.com) in a notepad, then head over to the handy dandy ICANN site:
The ICANN registration data lookup tool gives you the ability to look up the current registration data for domain names and Internet number
Slap those websites into there, scroll down to the Registrar information, look at where it shows the website contact for abuse or the abuse contact email (they usually prefer abuse reports via their website rather than emails), go to the website, scroll down to the bottom, and find where it will usually say something like "report abuse".
From there you fill out the form, put it all the right information (screenshots included in most cases or a copy of the raw message data), and usually within a few days the domain(s) will be taken down. :)
I hope this helps anyone who wants to go about reporting scam emails, and thank you again for sharing this!
