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Scam Alert
Hey, I've been seeing a new scam targeting artists on Tumblr. I'm just gonna put a warning out here because I've had to deal with this scam more than once, and reporting the accounts just leads them to making new ones, and it might actually trick less-experienced artists. The scam goes like so:
- The user doing this scam usually has no avatar, a generic username, and only a few reblogs on their blog.
- They'll show up in your DMs or in a reply to one of your arts, asking for your commission info.
- Upon giving the info, they'll ask for a commission of their pet.
- When the topic of payment comes up, they will not give you their email and will not let you send them an invoice. Instead, they will insist on getting your email and sending the money themselves.
- They will ask what name your Paypal displays "just to make sure I'm sending it to the right person"
- If you don't put the brake pedal on it right there, they will then send you a screenshot of a Paypal confirmation saying that the money was sent. They will, without prompting, insist that the money is already out of their account and that if you don't see it in your Paypal, it'll be there soon.
- Unsurprisingly, there will be no money in your Paypal, and if you check the confirmation number, it comes up as invalid.
The idea is to trick you into doing the art anyway, trusting that this is just Paypal being slow (as it sometimes is) and the money will show up eventually. They really pressure you, trying to insist that they sent the money!! It's out of my account already trust me!! So people who are bad at arguing back might not call their bluff.
But of course the screenshot is fake, and they used the email and display name you provided to make the screenshot.
I don't start working without money in hand so all this does is waste my time, but I can see less experienced artists, especially those who take payment after doing the work, getting swindled. This usually comes at me after I've posted a very simple drawing, so they might be targeting people they perceive as younger or less experienced.
Be vigilant, friends. Don't give a finished product without money in hand, and don't do business if something strikes you as shady.
#similar scam my friend recently got targeted by#they send a fake screenshot and insist the money was sent#and when you say it wasnt theyll pretend to contact support#a fake support email comes to your inbox claiming you have to do something#its either a link or instructions to give them money#etc etc
Oh, good addition, this might actually answer my question of "why this tho????". I never got past the fake screenshot step because when I pointed out the invalid confirmation number, they went silent and I reported them, but this might be the actual intended end point of the scam.
Reblogged sealsdaily
This is the worst Eid I have ever experienced in my entire life. I lost all my friends in the war and I am left alone here suffering from the pain of loss. I used to go and visit my friends, but today I went to their homes and found their mothers collapsing from crying and grieving over the loss of their sons. We used to meet and go out and spend a pleasant time together, but unfortunately today I went and visited them in the cemetery and sat next to them all day crying from the intensity of my pain and regret. How difficult this feeling is for me and I cannot bear it!!! 😭
Reblogged sm-babie
reblog to make someone bisexual
Reblogged antonblastdeluxe
do you guys wanna see my favorite video on the internet yes you do
HES SO HAPPY HE JUST LOVES FANS SO MUCH
Putting teaboot's tags here too because this joy for life needs to be shared I think
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Reblogged maria-ruta
Hi everyone it's trans day of visibility!! If ya feel like it, I'd love if you shared my work.. My name is Rachamim and I make personal queer fantasy work inspired by my Greek Sephardi background.
It's what always kept me going through my hardest periods of illness and instability and I feel very lucky to still be here sharing with y'all. If ya want links of where/how else you can support my work they're all here!! Thank you!
Reblogged maria-ruta
do y'all remember when they found all that tf art in Osamu Tezuka's drawer post-mortem because I think about it often
anyway keep chasing your bliss and draw weird shit, god knows we need that right now
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Death!! Hunger, siege, suffering, fear, oppression, agony, loss of hope, the silence of the world… the absence of life ××
( Don’t forget, this is reality—we are not in a dream )
"350 little girls died, and 200 were torn apart in a single day. What was their sin?" ´¯`
Don't forget us—do something, anything! Share, donate, like—just help us survive.
Our campaign is vetted by gazavetters list at (#21) sami alkhlili
Gaza is full of oppression # The worst is yet to come # Genocide # A resilient people
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please read and help me escape dangerous situation
tl;dr: hi, i’m gemma, a 21-year-old disabled, mentally ill lgbt girl who has just found out that im expecting. i'm stuck in an abusive and controlling relationship, and i urgently need help getting out before my ex-partner finds out and my situation gets even worse.
i’ll keep this brief, but here’s my story: i moved in with my boyfriend, who is in his early 30's now, when i was just turning 18. at the time, i was dealing with a lot of mental health issues and he understood me. he was sweet at first, but things over time turned bad between us. to make it short, he became controlling and paranoid—always checking my phone, taking it away from me, even locking me in the apartment. it has escalated. he’s recently stopped taking his medication, and i’ve tried to support him, but he’s only gotten worse. he’s been physically abusive, and at this point with the resentment he has for me i’m scared of what will happen if he finds out i’m pregnant
if anyone can help, even just a little, i would be so grateful. i mostly need help towards move-in costs for an apartment so i can finally get out of here and live safely. once i can move in, i will be able to manage paying rent on my own with my disability income/a job. i know this is asking a lot, and i’m so sorry to anyone who is tired of seeing these types of posts. i wouldnt, but i’m terrified every day, and i don’t know what to do anymore. i never imagined things would get this bad, i know i can’t do this alone. thank you so much to everyone who shares, donates, and supports me. your help means the world. my paypal: wishfulsea@yahoo.com im going to put more of the story under the cut to try and make this less triggering for others/for me to be being reposted. trigger warning for abuse.
Reblogged saja-gaza02
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Hello🙋♀️,
my name is Saja from northern Gaza, and finally after a long wait of a year and a half of hunger, displacement, fear, bombing and displacement several times, they agreed on a ceasefire🥹 and we will return to our homes next week, but unfortunately our area is completely destroyed💔, and we do not have a home or anything else there, but despite that we are happy that we will return to our area and neighborhood, please we are now in dire need of donations more than ever, so that we can live in stability in the next stage, please donate an amount even if it is small, it will help us build our lives and stability 🥹🙏 I hope that God will protect your family from all harm🙏💞
Please share my campaign and donate if you can. Help me even if it is a small amount.
Reblogged ahmadx6gaza5
Hello 🙋
My name is Ahmed, I’m 20 years old, and I’m from Gaza City. I used to dream of a peaceful life, completing my education, and getting a job, but the war has turned that dream into something impossible 💔😭. We lived through this massacre in every painful detail, and we are still in pain 😔. We were so happy when the ceasefire was announced, and we returned to our homes in the north of Gaza after being displaced for a year and a half in a tent in the south of the Strip. After we fixed a small room in our destroyed house to live in and start over, unfortunately, the war returned, stronger than before 💔. Now, we have no shelter and no source of income. We have exhausted all our savings during the war. I know that I started my campaign very late, but that’s because there is no other way to help my family 🙏. I am fully confident and hopeful that someone here will help us as much as they can and save my family in these difficult circumstances 😔.
I know that the feeling of starting from scratch is painful and frustrating, but I hope to receive any amount for my family 🥺🙏.
https://chuffed.org/project/helpahmedfamily
Even a small donation would have a great impact on us 🥺. May God bless you, my friend 🥰❤️.
Reblogged jaafar-gaza08
Hello my friend, my name is Jaafar from North Gaza, I am 24 years old, and finally after waiting for a whole year of killing, displacement, hunger, massacres and genocide against us, the time for a ceasefire has come, thank God we are still alive after all the exhaustion, and during the next week we will return to our homes in North Gaza, which was completely destroyed, unfortunately our area was completely and brutally destroyed and we have nothing left, neither a home, nor property, nor furniture, nor clothes, nor any other clothes, I know that returning to the north will be very painful and difficult due to the lack of the necessities of life, and we will start building our lives from scratch, but we are happy for the war to end.
Please 🙏, donate to my campaign to save my family, even a small amount will help us stabilize ourselves a little, and buy some supplies 🥹, I hope that God will protect your family and friends, thank you 🥰🩵
✅️Vetted by @gazavetters, my number verified on the list is ( #299 )✅️
Reblogged pprincette
What Strength Really Means 💪
✅️ Vetted by @gazavetters {537}✅️
Hey everyone, my name is Abdelmajed. I don’t usually talk much about myself, but today, I want to share a little piece of my story.
I was born and raised in Gaza, a place that has always been my home 🏡. I grew up surrounded by my family, my friends, and the streets that I knew like the back of my hand. Life wasn’t always easy, but we had love, laughter, and dreams. I used to think that no matter what happened, home would always be here. But life has a way of changing things in ways we never expect.
Over the past months, everything I once knew has disappeared. The streets that were once filled with children playing are now silent. The houses that held so many memories are now just rubble. And the people I loved—some of them are gone forever. 💔
✅️ Vetted by @gazavetters {537}✅️
Reblogged pprincette
please read and help me escape dangerous situation
tl;dr: hi, i’m gemma, a 21-year-old disabled, mentally ill lgbt girl who has just found out that im expecting. i'm stuck in an abusive and controlling relationship, and i urgently need help getting out before my ex-partner finds out and my situation gets even worse.
i’ll keep this brief, but here’s my story: i moved in with my boyfriend, who is in his early 30's now, when i was just turning 18. at the time, i was dealing with a lot of mental health issues and he understood me. he was sweet at first, but things over time turned bad between us. to make it short, he became controlling and paranoid—always checking my phone, taking it away from me, even locking me in the apartment. it has escalated. he’s recently stopped taking his medication, and i’ve tried to support him, but he’s only gotten worse. he’s been physically abusive, and at this point with the resentment he has for me i’m scared of what will happen if he finds out i’m pregnant
if anyone can help, even just a little, i would be so grateful. i mostly need help towards move-in costs for an apartment so i can finally get out of here and live safely. once i can move in, i will be able to manage paying rent on my own with my disability income/a job. i know this is asking a lot, and i’m so sorry to anyone who is tired of seeing these types of posts. i wouldnt, but i’m terrified every day, and i don’t know what to do anymore. i never imagined things would get this bad, i know i can’t do this alone. thank you so much to everyone who shares, donates, and supports me. your help means the world. my paypal: wishfulsea@yahoo.com im going to put more of the story under the cut to try and make this less triggering for others/for me to be being reposted. trigger warning for abuse.
Reblogged autumnalfallingleaves
I feel like the big push for AI is starting to flag. Even my relatively tech obsessed dad is kinda over it. What do you even use it for? Because you sure as hell dont want to use it for fact checking.
There's an advertisement featuring a woman surreptitiously asking her phone to provide her with discussion topics for her book club. And like... what. Is this the use case for commercial AI? This the best you could come up with? Lying to your friends about Moby Dick?
One of the big pushes tech companies are making for AI is entirely in the tool of convenience. Take Gemini for example, one of Google's really big pitches for it is in features like Help Me Read and Help Me Write, which are like the lowest tier use case for deep learning models but are also the two AI features that the average consumer will actually care about. Sure they advertise the GenAI stuff Gemini Advanced is able to do, but they've woken up to the idea that the average consumer does not care about GenAI and non-AI Bros fundamentally loathe GenAI.
Every company with a language model got sucked into the venture capital pitfall of AI and now have to market the one set of features the general person actually cares about.
I work in advertising and the culture shift surrounding AI even from January until now (end of March) has been drastic. At the beginning of the year, the company I work for was using AI to design most of their assets. Clients started coming back and requesting that we no longer use AI generated images or videos for copyright liability reasons. Basically, there's no way to tell whose art or photography was scalped to make an image, so as companies who are trying to make a profit using potentially stolen images, it puts them in a gray area, legally.
Also, companies do look at their comment sections. Anti-AI commenters on social media ("this is not a real image" "I don't trust companies who use AI" etc) are seen by higher ups of a company. Basically, keep bullying brands who use AI, it's working. Now my company uses almost no AI for deliverables, which is a huge win.
RIGHT??