as someone who has and is working with domestic and wild animals if you decide to follow my animal sideblog @fluffydogbutts I can assure you that all the content is animal friendly and if something IS concerning it will be pointed out for educational purposes
I am a vet assistant
I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.
About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.
My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)
And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.
This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.
I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.
And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.
This is a variation on a much older scam that often results in the victim being out money and also out whatever they were selling. It goes something like this:
- victim posts an item for sale on craigslist or w/e
- scammer contacts asking if a check is ok
- scammer then asks if they can write a check for more than the agreed-upon price and for the seller to give them the overage back as cash, often with some excuse about it being an out-of-state bank, they don't have a card and need some cash for something else, or whatever.
- scammer gives check, gets cash and item, and bounces
- guess what the check does, too
ANY kind of structure where you supposedly get money but have to give some of it back to someone should twig your scam radar, frankly.
Reblogging because some people need to refresh their scam radar, or start building theirs. I see far too many people fall for traps, and don't dare say for a second "this will never happen to me" because all it takes is a momentary lapse in judgement.
not to be a killjoy but it's still crazy to me that it's considered mean to be like "maybe you should read / play / watch the source material before creating fanworks and diving into the fandom" bc every time i see somebody going "i havent played disco elysium or know anything about it tbh but uwu here's harry and kim kissing" idk maybe you should engage with it. maybe you should play the anti-capitalist surrealist game where you investigate the murder of a mercenary who led the gang rape of a foreign girl and process that for a bit? and then you can do cutesy mlm or whatever idc. but like at the absolute bare minimum you should understand what the source material involves otherwise we get the phenomenon of people joining a dragon age server and wanting content warnings for like, mage racism. like it's fine to ship and transform the genre into whatever but if you arent comfortable with discussions of the actual source content itself then maybe the fandom isnt for you and a different one is. peace and love.
i'm collecting pages, which looks like an escape the monster set up, but those pages have pictures of my dead wife on them with vaguely accusatory text in a handwriting font, so it's still up in the air.
popping my back isnt enough i need to be picked up and slammed against the wall like a wet trout
u know those little 20 questions toy things. i brought one to my tattoo appointment & i busted it out 2 distract me from the pain bc im a wimp & i was makin it guess a pickle but none of the questions it asked were really applicable to a pickle & i was periodically askin my mom (7 feet away from me gettin the same tattoo) for input & it asks me "is it independent" & i ask her "is a pickle independent" & everyone in the place (like 8 people) just stops and contemplates the independence of a pickle for a minute
ALTAhhh, there’s the obvious conclusion.
If we can de-extinct* species, surely there’s no point in worrying about endangered species anymore! We can bring them back anytime!
*depending on your definition of de-extinction.
And considering one of the heads chose to go on Joe Rogan's show i wouldn't be at all surprised if they're encouraging this
GEE WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING
Why does it matter if this administration torpedos EVERY major animal conservation law, we can just bring them back! We are very smart.
the average rap battle has nothing on people who are still deeply in love after twenty years
