![]() While you’re free to ridicule, parody, or marvel at the alien beauty of Benedict Cumberbatch, you can’t pretend to actually be Benedict Cumberbatch. Don’t do things that would cause confusion between you or your blog and a person or company, like registering a deliberately confusing URL. Tumblr has the following to say on the topic of impersonation:Ĭonfusion or Impersonation. Tumblr, like many other social media platforms, seems to care very little about ‘minor’ occurences like this one, and despite reaching out directly to them over a week ago through multiple avenues of contact - they have refused to comment on the situation, provide a recommended response for users, or take action on behalf of those already affected.ĭespite this, there are still tools at our disposal that we can use to make this scam more difficult, and to increase its visibility to those within Tumblr staff that are required by policy to take action. Several artists have already fallen victim to this scammer, and I encourage any artists that have to reblog this post with the details of their affected account(s) and the ones the scammer has set up. Even if you haven’t been targeted yet, it does not mean you are safe or immune. As long as the scammer in question works unopposed, they are free to spread their influence and continue to scam more people. Naturally, this is ends up just being a way to take their money without giving anything back in return.Įveryone. ![]() ![]() They will then message people directly through Tumblr with messages along the lines of “Hey, i’m doing cheap commissions right now. The scammer will clone a tumblr, usually using a slight change to the url/account name to look like the real deal. Right now, there is at least one person actively impersonating multiple artists across tumblr in an effort to scam their followers into paying for fake ‘cheap commissions’. So if nothing else, please share and reblog this post to raise awareness for those that might be caught out - both artists and followers.įor a TL:DR, please look at the bottom of the post
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