As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.

I'm also gonna stop listing the reasons why I recognize something is a scam. It's becoming more and more clear there is 1 person behind this STRING of scams and they're leaving less trails behind but it still reeks of them and their MO.

DO NOT TRUST ANY GOFUNDME OR REQUEST FOR CROWDFUNDING THAT PALESTINIAN BLOGGERS HAVEN'T VERIFIED.

At this point I'm fine receiving a bunch of inbox messages asking me to vet x y z so y'all can avoid this shit. But please have some critical thinking!

People are exploiting our situation.

Reblog this post.

Whether you wanna read the whole thing or not idc.

REBLOG IT.

The person this was about deleted the 4th or 5th scam account they made and are definitely gonna make a new one soon. I don't want anybody falling for this anymore.

OP's masterlist of vetted requests

every little bit helps.

When you do reblog a post from someone who's undergone vetting, first check that the gfm links match to make sure they're really the person who was vetted.

And then, if the specific post you're reblogging doesn't already have it,

add the link to where it's vetted and the line number

so others can see for themselves that it's legit.

The more people who do this, the more likely legitimate campaigns are to get the help they need and the less likely fraudulent campaigns are to spread.

To younger broke adults getting into sex work here’s some common scams:

There’s essentially two main categories of scams in sex work: 1. Traditional scams (trying to get money, personal info, account access) and 2. Freebie scams (trying to get your SW content for free)

Freebie scams can involve someone trying to piss you off so you curse them out and they can go jerk it to being rejected by someone hot. You can just block people being weird.

As a new or established SWer you literally don’t owe anyone anything unless they’ve specifically paid for a service you offer.

Certified Sex Ed Post!

Names of scam accounts

A post compiling assorted names from scammers running medical,vet bills,and insulin scams, and more. All names listed here have been recorded from confirmed scam accounts, often hidden in multicolored text. These names are likely stolen off real people who are now being impersonated. Please make sure you haven’t sent money to these names from accounts that are relatively new. These may also appear in other scams.

This update is a WIP so it will regularly update.

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Lucymkira | Steve mwit | AGNES KEBWARO | Mwanasiti Heri | Stella Sipeto | sophia magubo | Martin Gomba | Sarah Migiro | Luciana | A'lycia Thorn-ton | Jessica mathew | Edina sirikale | Bitita Nyaata | Luciamkir | Sophia Magubo | Stev'en mwi'ta | JACKLINE JACKSON |

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Names used in scams pretending to be in Palestine:

Rawan Abu'M (this name is impersonating a real person from a legitimate GoFundMe.) | maryline Otieno | Nicholas Ochieng | Jeff Owino | Grahy Marwa | Taheera Abdallah | Gloria Naomi | Amisi Twaleh | Salima Abdallah | Aisha Mahmood | Remmy Cheptau | Newton ombogo | Godwin Okoth | AHMED SHIMBIR | Wafula Valentine | Rahwan AbdiMahady (same reason as the above; Impersonating a name from a legitimate GoFundMe.) | Nada'r Ab hussein | DIANA MUTENYO | Hakim Malfadho | Leila Rajab | Elizabeth Omasete | George Ochieng | Cecil Wangila | Leila Rajab | Emmily Kimesis | hezron onyango | christine wambura | princereinhard baraka | Iyvon Wabuyele | Wafula Valentine | Raobh Tingo | Sophia Magubo | Sharon Opiyo | Nada,r Ab'r Hus'sein | Jared Orwa | Zalka Yusuf | Khriytine wambura | Ann Stephen | Niva Wangila | Dorine nanjala | Taheera Mohammed | Dorine nanjala | Jastus Kimanzi | Paul Sila | Sussy Wamela | Mwanasiti Heri | Emily Mwelu | Hakim Abdi | Rasher Onchweri | Purity Sikuku | DIANA MUTENYO | Margaret Opiyo | Janeursular Mumali | Jane Majuma |

As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.

I'm also gonna stop listing the reasons why I recognize something is a scam. It's becoming more and more clear there is 1 person behind this STRING of scams and they're leaving less trails behind but it still reeks of them and their MO.

DO NOT TRUST ANY GOFUNDME OR REQUEST FOR CROWDFUNDING THAT PALESTINIAN BLOGGERS HAVEN'T VERIFIED.

At this point I'm fine receiving a bunch of inbox messages asking me to vet x y z so y'all can avoid this shit. But please have some critical thinking!

People are exploiting our situation.

Reblog this post.

Whether you wanna read the whole thing or not idc.

REBLOG IT.

The person this was about deleted the 4th or 5th scam account they made and are definitely gonna make a new one soon. I don't want anybody falling for this anymore.

an important update:

Companies nowadays are getting SO comfortable asking for our social security numbers.

Like why tf does Optimum need my social to install wifi? They're just an internet provider, they don't need my social. I don't care that the last people living at my location didn't pay their bill, there are a dozen other ways to prove that I'm not them without me handing over my social.

Anyway, hot tip, legally you can refuse to give your social security in unnecessary cases like this. If a company needs to prove that you are who you say you are, they have alternative ways to do so.

People who have a legal right to your social security number:

1. The government.

2. People who are giving you a paycheck.

That’s it. That’s everybody. Everyone else can fuck alllllll the way off.

I’m am so done with fucking medical providers trying to weasel my SSN out of me. I have spent decades arguaplaining to officious receptionists in medical offices that it’s illegal for them to require me to give them my social security number and they should not be asking for it.

Do you know how many businesses, medical providers, etc. get hacked on the daily? Right. Don’t give out your social security number.

anyone buying anything from Vexto? what about Cenno, anyone looking at Cenno rn? how about Barmo. going once for Barmo.

let’s all buy things from Ceze. i love to purchase from Bunno.

like I knew the FTX crypto exchange was a ponzi scheme but finding out it was run by a polycule of racist Harry Potter tumblr nerds was a real gut punch ngl

This is so cartoonishly unethical. This mfer invented Dark Polyamory.

This dude literally created ranked competitive sex

Help me Reddit: my daughter’s running a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme that’s threatening my church job

Keyboard-related PSA: these Procreate macropads are a scam. Procreate themselves have even gotten involved to warn people about them.

https://twitter.com/Procreate/status/1379174891425959936

Guys, if you get a call from someone claiming to be from the Social Security Office/Administration to tell you there is "suspicious activity" and they're going to "suspend your Social Security number" -

That's a scam.

1) The Social Security Administration doesn't call people (just like the IRS, they send letters.)

2) Your SS# or account cannot be "suspended."

I just had one of these calls. I pressed 1 to talk to a "representative" and he even answered "Social Security Office, how may I help you?" Bunch of assholes, trying to scam the elderly or the uninformed out of their money. 😡

So I told him he should be ashamed of himself. That my suspending my SS# isn't something that happens and then he hung up on me. I hope he loses sleep AND stubs his toe on his bedframe.

I got one of these calls and after the spike of panic hung up and googled it

If someone is going to come talk to you about your social security or anything of that nature they won't send you an automated call. You can hang up (pls hang up and don't give them any info or u could have ur identity stolen)

-FemaleWarrior

Also! Important advice:

If you get a call from an unknown/suspicious number and they ask something like “Is this (your name)?” “Is (name) home?” etc DO NOT ANSWER SIMPLY “Yes” because scam companies can record your voice and use your “yes” to sign you up for/approve you for things without your consent!!!! If you’re asked a question like this answer “I’m (name)” or “(Name) is/isn’t home”, etc.

If you have time, I recommend this video

https://youtu.be/FO0iG_P0P6M

It’s genuinely concerning to me that multilevel marketing companies aren’t treated as a mainstream, pressing issue like they should be. I’ve seen so many women (men on rare occasions) scammed by them because nobody teaches them how to identify pyramid schemes. So, I’ve decided to compile a list of common themes I’ve taken note of in my Facebook feed that originate from the girls in MLMs (the ones I’ve seen so far are Plexus, Young Living, Monat, and ItWorks) as well as themes I’ve found in my own research  in case any of you come across it and are asked to buy or join:

1.) You’ll often see long Facebook posts from a person involved that make excessive use of emojis (this point might sound silly but it’s very, very relevant). The Facebook posts originating from this person are almost never sad and never delve into their mental health because they simply aren’t allowed to act that way. The posts need to be cheery because they’re often forced into making a positive representation of the MLM they work for. “How can you be sad when you’re working for a company as amazing as Plexus?”

2.) The posts they make will more often focus on the money to be made working for the company, rather than the products you’ll be selling. MLMs have a habit of preying on people who are struggling financially, most notably college students, single mothers and military wives. I myself have been approached by representatives from Plexus and ItWorks with the promise of making more money. “Do you want financial freedom? Do you want to be able quit your 9-5 job and stay home with your kids?’

3. When you join, you’ll likely have to buy some sort of “starter kit” as a fee for joining (for reference, NO LEGITIMATE BUSINESS will ask you to make any form of payment when signing up to work. If they do, it’s more than likely a scam).

4. You’ll likely have something called an “upline” who benefit from your sales and the sales of people below you. Before pyramid schemes were criminalized, their practices were the same, and the ONLY difference with MLMs is the involvement of a product/products: the only way for a new recruit to turn any sort of profit is by recruiting more people to sell, forming a “downline”. The more people you recruit and the more people your recruits recruit, the more money you make. However, the people at the bottom of the line will always face the same situation of not turning a profit. The only way to escape this, again, is to get people to join below you, and the cycle repeats itself.

5. You may get messages from people involved in MLMs that either undermine or boost your confidence as a selling point for their products, things like, “Hey girl! I’m so happy for you and congratulations on your new baby. Are you looking to lose your baby weight? ItWorks has some amazing products that I think you should try.” (Yes, this was a real message that a friend of mine got). You’ll get stuff from people you used to attend high school with that haven’t spoken to you in years.

6. When someone you know involved in an MLM makes a post about it, check the profiles of people who make positive and encouraging comments. The majority (if not all of them) are also ambassadors for the same MLM. Whereas you would expect ordinary people to find the post uninteresting and ignore it, these people will leave feedback in order to give the impression that the person involved is doing well and finding success.

7. If the MLM is health/nutrition/supplement based, the person will all of a sudden become an anatomy and health expert. They may post some gross pictures and discuss them in detail, or start talking about the science behind losing weight and getting in shape (and sometimes these posts are excruciatingly long) in order to give the products they sell an aura of scientific legitimacy. However, I have yet to see a post that scientifically explains what the products created by these MLMs do to help people. (This point wouldn’t apply to jewelry or clothing MLMs like LulaRoe). 

If you guys have any points to add, please let me know what I’m missing. I’m sure there’s a lot. We need to teach young people just leaving high school and entering college what to look out for so they aren’t at risk of being scammed into losing all of their hard earned money.

Nothing to add here except a list of companies that are MLMs that everyone should avoid:

- Young Living

- doTerra

- Lula Roe

- Paparazzi

- Thrive (not the cosmetics)

- It Works

- Arbonne

- Pure Romance

- Scentsy

- Rodan and Fields

- Beach Body

- Plexus

- Monat

These are just the ones off the top of my head.

Reblogging for my followers to see. There are so many more but I see these ones most often on Facebook.

The Checkout did a good segment on MLMs a few years ago that explains how they work and also some common ones to look out for (it’s Australian but the info applies across the board). Seriously, these things are major scams, and if you know anyone who has bought into them, show them this video and/or other resources to help talk them out of it.

Adding Amway to the list. It’s an oldie and a serious baddie. My housemate is involved with them and I’ve gotten a front-row seat to the cult mindset, brainwashing, emotional abuse, and general money-flushing involved. Their intentionally deceptively-named product lines include:

- Artistry

- Nutrilite

- Nutriway

- Glister

- Satinique

- Hymn

- Body Series

- XL and XS energy drinks

- Dish Drops

-SA8 (home cleaning product)

- LOC (also a home cleaning product)

- Legacy of Clean

- Moiskin

- eSpring

- Atmosphere

- iCook

Filed under: future 5,000 word BGR articles.

heads up!

My mom asked why i answer the phone so formal at home and i had to teach her how to not say yes to anyone she doesn’t know calling us because of these scams.

Caller: “Is this Mary?” Me: “This is her”

Caller: “is [my mom] there?” Me: “she is” or “one moment” and/or “can i tell who’s calling?”

Other yes and no questions i generally answer with “I have” or “I haven’t”, “it is” or “it isn’t”. I try not to say “I do” cuz i think might be easier to sub in for a yes.