#khalilhan

[mangocheesecakes]

the scammer @/rescueplease has now been deleted, but since a lot of people are still reblogging my posts about it, i'm changing my pinned post to a list of currently active scam accounts

scammers with the same m.o., sometimes similar profile pics and linktrees/paypal addresses:

> numberonegoateeeagle (paypal name 'Jeff Owino') new

> nour-samr (paypal name 'Nour Samar') >> nour-samr0 new/remake

scammer pretending to be a sick Black person, using the paypal name, 'Alafred Opondo'

> enchantingqueencreator

the 'insulin scammer''s latest blog (at least i think it's their latest blog:

> fancycoffeepeanut

empty blogs who are mass-reblogging the scam posts and are likely just the scammers sock puppet accounts used to pad the notes of their posts, pls block them too:

> chopra-79

> futuristicphilosopherartisan new

deleted/deactivated/changed url:

maina-3

immariaanszz >> iammarinassaa >> iammarinassaass

jovialsuitdonutai (paypal name 'jeff owino')

khalilhan (paypal name 'samuel obiya') >> khaliilhan

marylinfwaznassar (paypal name 'maryline lucy')

stickytreephilosopher (paypal name 'jeff owino')

perfectlyminiatureface (paypal name 'jeff owino')

optimisticalpacalady (paypal 'jeff owino')

omarkhalini (paypal 'fred odhiambo')

marylinefwaznassar (paypal 'maryline lucy')

khalilhani (paypal 'samuel obiya')

weepingpersondestiny (paypal 'jeff owino')

as always, please block and report these blogs, and more importantly, warn your friends, mutuals, and followers if you see them reblogging their scam posts. if you see a donation post/blog that you believe may be a scam, please do look their url up first on the tumblr search bar to see if someone has already called them out. i will try to update this post with the scammers' new accounts/url as we discover them. please also go to @kyra45's blog, as they are faster and more thorough in updating about newly discovered scams.

some red flags to look out for before sharing donation posts/donating:

new blog, or a couple years old but has only a few random, sporadic posts

backdated posts

spamming asks to a lot of other users, even the ones they don't know or have just followed, and even when the user has made it clear they don't want to receive requests to boost dono posts

is asking you to answer their asks privately, or is sending you a message directly

is straight up asking you for money, and usually for impossibly large amounts

do not put their paypal/money transfer links on their post itself, usually claiming it's to protect their 'privacy'

is using Zelle for their money transfer account, especially if the person is claiming to be in Palestine

please don't be so quick to entertain donation requests and to give away your money, especially if the user ticks a lot of these boxes. if you are familiar with the place they say they are from or the language they are supposed to speak, try conversing with them for a bit to see if their claims would hold. you can also browse my 'donation scam' tag or kyra45's blog to compare if the user has any similarities with past scammers that we've discovered.

that's it po. let's all try our best to look out for each other and make sure that our resources are going to the actual people in need, especially in the case of Palestinians asking for help. the last thing they need right now is for shitty lowlifes to use their suffering to make a profit.

[neonbutchery]

The continuous bombardment and the ongoing genocide pose a significant threat to their well-being. What pains me even more is that due to the lack of medications in Gaza, my Mom, who is a type 2 Diabetis patiant and was scheduled for an urgent eye surgery, have had no access to insulin or any medical care for the past 3 months. Some of my family members sought refuge in the southernmost part of Gaza (Rafah) in tents. However, my parents, and sisters have no alternative place to stay, forced to remain in the Nusierat refugee camp, which is now the subject of continuous severe bombardment since christmas started.” Am on my knees requesting for your donations. Please help where possible.

something about this message smelled fishy to me and low and behold: https://www.tumblr.com/mangocheesecakes/742313431144726529/marylinefwaznassar-paypal-name-maryline-lucy?source=share

trying to scam people while pretending to be the victim of one of the most egregious genocides humanity has witnessed is a whole new kind of awful. putting this out there for anyone else that might get this in their inboxes.

if you're able to donate and want to help palestinians, fairuzfan is a good blog to check out legitimate fundraisers that aren't scams.

[tired-and-unjellied]

The continuous bombardment and the ongoing genocide pose a significant threat to their well-being. What pains me even more is that due to the lack of medications in Gaza, my Mom, who is a type 2 Diabetis patiant and was scheduled for an urgent eye surgery, have had no access to insulin or any medical care for the past 3 months. Some of my family members sought refuge in the southernmost part of Gaza (Rafah) in tents. However, my parents, and sisters have no alternative place to stay, forced to remain in the Nusierat refugee camp, which is now the subject of continuous severe bombardment since christmas started.” Am on my knees requesting for your donations. Please help where possible.

Mods, explode their spine! (again)

Luckily they came back soon enough for me to still have the report message on my Textarea cache

[paradoxiii]

The continuous bombardment and the ongoing genocide pose a significant threat to their well-being. What pains me even more is that due to the lack of medications in Gaza, my Mom, who is a type 2 Diabetis patiant and was scheduled for an urgent eye surgery, have had no access to insulin or any medical care for the past 3 months. Some of my family members sought refuge in the southernmost part of Gaza (Rafah) in tents. However, my parents, and sisters have no alternative place to stay, forced to remain in the Nusierat refugee camp, which is now the subject of continuous severe bombardment since christmas started.” Am on my knees requesting for your donations. Please help where possible.

Scamming regular people is already distasteful, but to take advantage of a genocide to do so is absolutely disgusting.

[my-silly-poker]

gaza scam warning

Hey gamers, recently there have been a number of scam blogs on tumblr claiming to be Gazan victims. They've been making a number of iterations of the exact same blog and story but with different names and sometimes different PayPal links.

Thus far, the content of these scams are being stolen from 2 real fundraisers. Please lend your aid to these people who need help instead of the disgusting scam farm

Help Haya Orouq's family escape Gaza

Help Rawan AbuMahady's family escape Gaza

These are examples within the past month which have been deleted.

Ma22ya

Khalilhan

jovialsuitdonutai

miniaturepostkingjaiur

Donation scams on tumblr are extremely common and anyone who has a tumblr account will encounter them at some point. You have likely encountered them before and not realized it. They throw together a brand new blog with a story of needing aid, then use bots to go through follow lists and post notes to send messages to random users. Scambusting blogs like kyra45 do a lot of work to track and call out these scams when they surface.

Scam Spotting Tips

They send an ask often accompanied with a follow despite having never interacted with you before. Ask yourself: How did you find your blog? These interactions usually come out of nowhere when you have no original posts or interests they could've found you through, because they're just going down the lists of random blogs.

They reblog just enough posts to make you think that their blog is in-use when it is actually only a day or a few old. Enable timestamps and try find the blog's oldest post; if a blog seems old but still seems suspicious, be wary of post backdating

They often disable or delete comments on their donation post to hide comments that call them out. Open the notes and see if it says "some replies have been hidden, blocked or removed." Blocked/hidden comments sometimes still appear in reblogs of a post but not the original, so open a random reblog and see if telling comments appear there.

It isn't unusual for the story and the ask to either be exact copy-pastes of each other, or otherwise have very telling suspicious details, such as: using different names, having different goal amounts, contrasting story details, etc. Pay attention to and trust the suspicion of details that stand out as odd.

Like many of the above examples, they often use an automatically generated username consisting of random words

Reverse image searching can be a helpful giveaway if it works, but don't trust it entirely - scammers often steal images from private Facebook groups/profiles or alter the images so that people don't find the source. An image not having a source should also be suspicious, as you should wonder why this person's social media presence is exclusively a 3 day old tumblr blog

When you receive an ask from a blog like this, reporting them for spam or phishing and reporting the PayPal account for fraudulent activity does help get these accounts taken down.

In name of the situation, here are great verified resources to support real people who need help:

Many organizations and gofundmes for Gaza

Verified fundraisers for individuals in Gaza put together by @palestineasdiqa on Instagram and Twitter

Click to donate for free using ad revenue

Participation and political resources for US, UK and Canada

USPCR's toolkit

[kyra45]

This is an old post! Please refer to my new one here.

Currently known accounts of another scammer pretending to have a family in Palestine or claiming they are in Palestine. Please report these accounts and don’t give them money. They are not people needing legitimate help their scammers trying to take advantage of the situation. Their images and story have been stolen off a real fundraiser and are confirmed not to be affiliated with the creator of it. I’ll also add additional accounts that are scamming in a similar fashion.

As of 2/13/2024, these accounts are all gone

joyfulfacegalaxydilta | gazapalestinedrianjaphah | abudallah | rescueplease | muhammed-solaiman | chack-teol

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As of 2/15/2024, these are gone accounts

khalilhani | weepingpersondestiny | khalilhan | marylinefwaznassar

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As of 2/16/2024, these accounts are all gone

nour-samr I jovialsuitdonutai | marylinfwaznassar I stickytreephilosopher | perfectlyminiatureface | khaliilhan | marylinefwaznasarr|optimisticalpacalady | omarkhalini

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As of 2/18/ 2024 these accounts are down.

numberonegoateeeagle I nour-samr0 | jovialgoateeobservation | marylinefwaznassarr

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As of 2/21/2024, these accounts are gone

miniaturepostkingjaiur | matulkaluchy | alwaysgreattigermier | boldlyweepingcloud | ma22ya | aminaomarkl | aminakumar | may2a | muhhamedmartinkakudji

Please be aware this post is not updated to newer scam accounts! Please refer to the link at the start! If you see this as a reblog, please click the link to the remade post!

Above is images of the PayPal links used by some of the scam blogs. Here are names associated with the scammers likely stolen off real people: Nour Samar | maryline lucy | Fred Odhiambo | Jeff Owino | Valentine Nakuti | Conslata Obwanga | JACINTA SITATI | David Okoth | Martín Mutugi

Real fundraisers will be posted to this blog due to post length.

Info for rescueplease

[kyra45-helping-others]

Below is known scam accounts using images or the story from this fundraiser. The scammer has now began copying the real persons name but is not them.

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greatpuppytyphoon | chack-teol | abudallah | joyfulfacegalaxydilta | khalilhani | nour-samr |khalilhan | jovialsuitdonutai | perfectlyminiatureface | khaliilhan | optimisticalpacalady | omarkhalini | numberonegoateeeagle | nour-samr0 | jovialgoateeobservation | miniaturepostkingjaiur | boldlyweepingcloud | ma22ya | may2a | may2aa | originalanchorpenguin | Carriee22 | coolbreadgiver | carriie23 | shatsha | deepnachoobservation | almightyboha | suurzzie | babycupcakecolor | weepingpandareview

[artistheworld]

The continuous bombardment and the ongoing genocide pose a significant threat to their well-being. What pains me even more is that due to the lack of medications in Gaza, my Mom, who is a type 1 Diabetis patiant and was scheduled for an urgent eye surgery, have had no access to insulin or any medical care for the past 3 months. Some of my family members sought refuge in the southernmost part of Gaza (Rafah) in tents. However, my parents, and sisters have no alternative place to stay, forced to remain in the Nusierat refugee camp, which is now the subject of continuous severe bombardment since christmas started.” Am on my knees requesting for your donations. Please help where possible.

I'm really sorry, but I can't donate anything as I'm a minor and I don't have a job nor any sort of income

The best I can do is help you spread your message

I hope that others would be able to help more

EDIT:

I have been kindly informed by @lirulin that this is a scammer. if anyone gets any ask or dms sent to them from any of the users listed on this post below, block them

the real links to the campaign are listed below

Here is the real fundraiser that cutieciphera/cutecipheriehahala/gazapalestinedrianjaphah/androgynousfacemakermaria/weepingpersondestiny is using.

Here is the real fundraiser that greatpuppytyphoon/chack-teol/abudallah/joyfulfacegalaxydilta/khalilhani/nour-samr/khalilhan/jovialsuitdonutai is using.

Info for rescueplease

[archivomeow]

Hey, the donation post you reblogged from khalilhan is a scam. Please look up their url on the tumblr search tab or check my pinned post for proof and info about the other scams they are simultaneously running.

yeah i am aware now, thank you very much 🩷🍉

posting this for others to see as well!

[shadowfoxsilver]

Scammer stealing info off of Palestine fundraisers

Hi! I run @kyra45 where I’ve been posting about this scammer for days now but I’ll go ahead and make a warning over here as well but please refer to the post below for any recent urls and updates:

Currently, there is a scammer (or scammers) using the information off two fundraisers as their own and doing it at such a rapid pace that it’s difficult to keep track of them sometimes and they block anyone who calls them out and hides reblogs too much like the pet scammers who do a similiar thing of stealing someone’s fundraiser as their own.

One of the accounts is khalilhan. Referring to my other blogs post, the fundraiser they’re stealing from is link in it. They are not affiliated with the one who is running the fundraiser and nothing given to them is going to go towards supporting someone in need. It’s just a scammer taking profits off the situation without caring about what they’re doing.

They’ve been at this since the start of February, and haven’t shown any signs of stopping even with a post showing proof that they are stealing from a real fundraiser. Unfortunately they’ve been spamming asks and also have already been getting donations from users who weren’t aware of their scam. If you donated to any account listed below, please be aware these are all scam accounts and nothing sent is going to someone who needs it. This is just known accounts and more are popping up even with some of them gone.

Please do your research and check the legitimacy of fundraisers you might come across. Usually there are ways to verify their legitimacy and there is links out there that lead to legitimate resources that have been proven to work. If something feels suspicious, you can always ask around and see if anyone has any information too.

These accounts below are scammers; Most of them are gone now but my linked post above updates as needed.

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cutieciphera/cutecipheriehahala/gazapalestinedrianjaphah/androgynousfacemakermaria/weepingpersondestiny

greatpuppytyphoon/chack-teol/abudallah/joyfulfacegalaxydilta/khalilhani/nour-samr/khalilhan

[fuckdamn]

The continuous bombardment and the ongoing genocide pose a significant threat to their well-being. What pains me even more is that due to the lack of medications in Gaza, my Mom, who is a type 2 Diabetis patiant and was scheduled for an urgent eye surgery, have had no access to insulin or any medical care for the past 3 months. Some of my family members sought refuge in the southernmost part of Gaza (Rafah) in tents. However, my parents, and sisters have no alternative place to stay, forced to remain in the Nusierat refugee camp, which is now the subject of continuous severe bombardment since christmas started.” Am on my knees requesting for your donations. Please help where possible.

if anyone receives a similar ask from this user or a user with a similar name, check @kyra45's blog for further info and block accordingly. fucking repugnant to capitalize upon the grief of an occupied people for your own personal gain 🙄

[demi-s-fucked-up-dog]

Hey, the donation post you reblogged from khalilhan is a scam. Please look up their url on the tumblr search tab or check my pinned post for proof and info about the other scams they are simultaneously running.

I'm aware now, thank you for telling me. I should've probably been more careful, my apologies.

[luckycloverforducks]

Hey, the donation post you reblogged from khalilhan is a scam. Please look up their url on the tumblr search tab or check my pinned post for proof and info about the other scams they are simultaneously running.

Oh damn

[snakebitcat]

Hey, the donation post you reblogged from khalilhan is a scam. Please look up their url on the tumblr search tab or check my pinned post for proof and info about the other scams they are simultaneously running.

Thank you for letting me know!

[vi-timepiece]

Hey, the donation post you reblogged from khalilhan is a scam. Please look up their url on the tumblr search tab or check my pinned post for proof and info about the other scams they are simultaneously running.

Oh I'm sorry I wasn't aware. Thank you for letting me know

[kyra45]

As of 2/18/2024, here a masterlist of all the removed accounts belonging to a scammer who is taking information off Palestine fundraisers/pretending to be in Palestine. If any of the accounts contacted you and you donated, please be aware it was a scam and the funds weren’t going to someone in Palestine. It’s unknown which country this scammer is in since their PayPal links aren’t to a direct account.

greatpuppytyphoon | chack-teol | abudallah | joyfulfacegalaxydilta | khalilhani | nour-samr |khalilhan | jovialsuitdonutai | perfectlyminiatureface | khaliilhan | optimisticalpacalady | omarkhalini | numberonegoateeeagle | nour-samr0 | jovialgoateeobservation | cutieciphera | cutecipheriehahala| gazapalestinedrianjaphah| androgynousfacemakermaria | weepingpersondestiny | stickytreephilosopher | rescueplease | marylinfwaznassar | marylinefwaznasarr | marylinefwaznassarr | iammarinassaa | iammarinassaass

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As of 2/20/2024, these are removed accounts

miniaturepostkingjaiur | may2aa

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As of 2/21/2024, these are removed accounts

matutkaluchy I alwaysgreattigermier I boldlyweepingeloud | ma22ya | aminaomarkl I aminakumar | may2a | muhhamedmartinkakudj | shadowytalepeace

This scammer has been at this since the start of February and hasn’t shown any signs of stopping. If they messaged you via DMs, please share (with public info redacted) what they said if you had asked them anything.