Okay I'm legit going crazy over this
Every once in a while you'll see a donation post on Tumblr and it always is formatted and exactly the same way
It's written to take advantage of our empathy by jamming a bunch of traits that society shuns (always at the top, never less than five of them) and then they ask you to donate to their PayPal
The accounts for these posts are either empty or reblog popular posts from pretty much one or two tags
I've seen like 10 of these
Are people making fake accounts to trick queer people into donating money?
yes, scam fundraiser and donation asks are very much a thing and the main problem with it is that it makes it much harder to share actual genuine mutual aid requests and it’s rly awful. this is like the main reason i only share fundraiser posts from people i personally know or have been mutuals with for a while, it can be rly hard to verify which of the fundraisers i am sent to as a big blog are genuine and which ones arent and it is not a risk i can usually take with such a large audience.