prismatoxic:
kyra45:
officialmod619 is not a moderator of tumblr. Don’t give them your password. Please report them for phishing. This has been a psa.
just a few… other notes that might be relevant
- tumblr will not contact you over dm. and even if they did they would use like, the staff account? but i’m reasonably sure they will only ever email private correspondence with users (because this is how most corporate platforms do things)
- tumblr doesn’t give a single flying fuck who you block or why you block them. they’re the ones who gave you that tool. NO website cares who you block or why, unless you’re on xitter, in which case elon musk will cry about it if you block him.
- no website worth its salt will ever ask you to confirm your password outside of the login/register/account settings screens. especially not in a dm, guys, come on.
- if you get an alarming message of any kind–be that text, email, phone call, dm, fucking snail mail–that demands you comply in handing over information in a limited window of time, you need to already be on edge. that is a red flag. that is the BIGGEST red flag. i’m pretty sure there are scant few scenarios where expediency would be warranted on your part and you’d be contacted by any site staff about it, if there are any at all. they are trying to make you panic so you give them your credit card/passwords/fucking neopoints or whatever. don’t give into that.
- if you get an unexpected message from an account you don’t know claiming to be an authority of some kind who needs information from you, you need to be skeptical. extremely so. use your search engine of choice to see if anyone else has seen these messages before. check reddit especially.
phishing scams range from woefully incompetent to extremely convincing, and anyone can fall for them for a variety of reasons, but at their heart they almost always fly directly in the face of established website/bank/mail carrier/etc protocol. stay safe out there.