Update: North Gaza Aid!

As part of his promise, Hussam sent 20% of your HelpGazaChildren donations ($4000) to Mahmoud AbuSalama for the 5th time now, including the earlier North Gaza Campaign (as location on our notion site) to buy food and necessary products for families still surviving the dire situation in North Gaza. The food package contains, as you see in the picture below: flour, lentils, canned food, formula, diapers, and women pads!

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[Quick ID: The video is of Mahmoud speaking in front of bags of flour and a tumblr sign. There are captions to the video in english. The image below is of groups of packages of items in front of a tumblr sign.]

Hey gang, I'm pissed off that I've been recieving asks from scammers pretending to be Palestinians and I'm gonna tell you how to weed those suckers out

also so much people are falling for it so byeah, that also sucks, anyway

1. copy paste the whole ask and put it on the search bar

the search bar is shit for looking for tags BUT it will show you the exact ask post when you look it up word for word

Now if different blogs are sending the same ask word for word then that's definitely a scammer

Hey Gang, I'm Pissed Off That I've Been Recieving Asks From Scammers Pretending To Be Palestinians And

1.1 search the url in the search bar and see if people confirms the account is a scam

2. The blog is less than a week old and/or reblogged a bunch of other Palestine related posts in the same day of it's creation

This has been age old advice on how to tell any scam blog in any context. Scammers fill their blogs with reblogs to make it look like they're a genuine tumblr user. Check the dates of all the posts. Usually they never make another post/reblog after they think the account is filled enough

3. When they say they're vetted without mentioning or linking who confirmed it

just like this person

and relating to point 2, this account and all the posts are two days old

3.1 The ask/post reads like a storybook because of the lack of info while trying so hard to make the story sound legit by adding dramatic words (from the above, "one day, as the bombs fell" "without insulin, my blood sugar levels soared" "as conflict raged around me")

4. Searching the name and not finding any info besides the tumblr blog

pretty suspicious if the person asking for help doesn't exist, don't it

4.1 The ask does not mention a name at all

and That's all the things I do to find out if an account is a fake, I hope you reblog because people should not be falling for scams like these and ending up NOT donating their money to real Palestinians, take care y'all

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1 year ago