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This is a scam, right?
04-08-2014, 08:31 PM
Post: #1
This is a scam, right?
I got a message on tumblr a couple days after I got a new follower, "bigeyedchristina" so I followed back. This blog doesn't have many posts, but the ones they do have are feminine and girly. Here's what it says;

Hi my friend, I would like to introduce myself Smile My name is Mark and I am a tattoo artist. My dream is to have my own tattoo studio. Im saving money for my dream and trying to earn in all possible ways Smile And here I would like to ask you a favour Smile Could you please visit my website http://www(.)fashioninlove24(.)com/ and check out the ad next to the title “Fashion inLove”? I would be very very thankful Smile It is very very important stay on the opened site for like 10 second.. Thank you Thank you very much my dear! Smile* And very sorry if I made you angry!!! Smile

Note: I put the parentheses on the link, just so no one on here would accidentally click it!
So if this is a scam, what do I do? I've never had to report to tumblr, so how do I do that?
@mikasch - dude, you can't even spell "tumblr" correct, so why are you telling ME I shouldn't be on it? I've simply just never received a message like this on tumblr (note my spelling) and I was very unsure about going to the link.
@Kittysue - thank you.

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04-08-2014, 08:32 PM
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I am not sure lololol.

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04-08-2014, 08:39 PM
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It's not really a scam. It's someone doing pay per click advertising who gets maybe 0.10 every time someone clicks on his ad. So he's trying to get everyone to click on it so he makes money. Just ignore it
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04-08-2014, 08:46 PM
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If you don't know what you should do in such a circumstance, then you should not be on tumbler.
Trust me on that.
So first the email is from "bigeyedchristina". You follow this name to the website that introduces this person as Mark.

So in your personal opinion what should you have done then and there ? ?

But since you did not do what you should have done, here you are asking this question in Yahoo Answers ! !

This indicates that you are not yet ready to use Tumbler ! !
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04-08-2014, 08:53 PM
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Its spam. I gotta say that this dude's advertising technique is a little creepy lol.. "Hi Im blueeyedchristina AKA Mark.

The person is trying to get you to click on the ad on the page. The URL in the ad would contain some numbers linked to that person's Google Adsense (or some other ad scheme) account. They get payed a few cents every time someone clicks the ad.

You could report the person for spamming on Tumblr, or you could report them to Google Adsense(or whatever ad campaign this is part of ) as this type of solicitation for clicks is generally forbidden under their terms of use.
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04-08-2014, 08:56 PM
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this is one of those many virus blogs that randomly message people via ask or fanmail, don't follow them back or go to their account, simply ignore their message and you should be fine
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