Anonymous asked:
does this sound like a scam because i just got an ask saying “Hi! I hate having to ask for help, but without it what I'll do .I have no where to go and i am asking for any kind of help for my daughter treatment diagnosed with sickle cell. but the worst were the THREE strokes to the brain. Kindly send donation and share if you're able🙏”
i am worried about scams on here im not saying its fake but i don’t want to boost a scam by accident
they also followed me too so it most likely is a scam
kyra45 answered:
Their blog was made yesterday, shared random posts, and is spamming asks to random strangers. I won’t outright say scam, but it looks extremely suspicious considering that their blog is pretty new and they have no original posts besides the aid post.
If anyone’s curious, search the ask in tumblr search and you’ll see it’s been sent to multiple random strangers and what the blogs name is.
And as I always state, not everyone asking for help is a scammer. Unfortunately scammers are known to steal photographs and make up stories that will have a flaw if you scrutinize it more. Sometimes these scammers will come here from twitter using someone’s real story as their own.
Scammers will pretend to be anything to get aid. They’ll target certain tags someone used to find blogs to spam asks to. Scammers will do whatever it takes to get as much attention as they can while preventing legitimate people from getting aid. I always advise caution if the asks sent come from accounts that are brand new and randomly found you. After all, a brand new blog shouldn’t find you unless they were watching the notes of trending posts/tags.
But among everything else, just take caution if you get asks like this and always check the blog first.






