You Are Who You Pretend to Be: Poking the Beehive
I’m a relative newbie to Tumb1r, and I enjoy it, for what it is. However, I’m not a newbie to fandom or the ways of the internet. I’ve noticed a weird trend over the past week or so—people using it/fandom (because my tumb1r is a fannish tumb1r) to raise money for fans who are sick or in dire…
Yes, yes, a MILLION TIMES YES. I have been online going on 30 years, and I have seen many scams from people “in dire need of X dollars for X illness (or whatever).” If I am going to give financial help to someone, I am going to ask for some kind of evidence that they are what they say they are. Does that make me a bad person? HELL TO THE NO.
Some examples:
I have cancer WHOOPS NO I DON’T
More fake cancer (search for “Brookelyn Walters”)
BRAIN TUMOR! Er…. Well…. I….
Seriously, the list is ridiculously long. There are so many documented cases of long-game fake people created for sympathy and Munchausen by Internet. It is not rude to ask for verification.
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MILLION TIMES YES....seen many scams from people “in dire
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