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Just finished sending you a reply to your message so I have just noticed this post. I'll share it here as well since it's pertinent.

Hi. I am currently tracking this issue and am working to handle all the sock puppet accounts as they pop up. User sphere compiled and submitted a case that this person was working a scam in our community and after an admin review we have agreed with the case levied against whoever is behind these sock puppet accounts and decided to permanently eject this person from our site.

Thank you for your compassion for the mutual aid community as well as taking your time to message me with your concerns. Please always feel free to message me whenever you do have concerns so we can quickly address them and ensure the best possible outcome for everyone participating in the mutual aid comm

This isn't the first time. I know the mods don't want to make judgement calls and have a "donate at your own risk" attitude, but that is literally going to kill the comm, since no one will want to donate if it is just full of someone scamming. And if other scammers recognise that this is a place that won't do anything about it, they'll also flock to it and just drown out the whole comm, I know a few users here have stopped using it entirely because their needs are constantly being overshadowed by this person.

I notice their newest grift is to post, then delete the post a few hours later, presumably so people don't ask the questions about how they still have the same emergency despite getting the money, which is what tipped people off to them last time. No respect for anyone here.

The situation is critical. A tooth abscess isn't just extreme pain—it is an active, spreading infection.

LLM-powered scam

It's hard to think of many things worse than scamming the people of this community

Thanks for posting this. I recently submitted some of the same information you've documented here to an admin, who shared the info with the rest of the team; they determined that it was appropriate to ban BaileyDee and CassandraD, and have since banned KodyGerba and KeralaDee as well (both other alts of the same person).

To any donors out there reading this: please know, if you were among those who gave to this person, that you are not alone. I myself gave this person a total of $275 over the course of a few months a couple of years ago, when they first started posting here.

Thank you for posting this, this has been going on for a long while and it's been rough to watch someone take advantage of the rule not to criticise anyone asking for mutual aid. They had even more accounts as well, like KodyGerba.

On one of them they once posted a blatantly ChatGPT generated text that must have had "appeal to commies" in the prompt, it was one of the worst things I've ever read, in service of obviously scamming people with good intentions

EveryTimeIDie literally called them out for this like a year ago

They posted again today. I had them blocked, Sphere brought it to my attention they might be scamming hb

That really is unfortunate and shitty of them. My material conditions have improved (modestly) so that I rarely need to fall back on a mutual aid request anymore, but there have definitely been times I've gone to post for something that maybe wasn't critical, saw one of these posts, and decided my need was too trivial to dilute the donor pool.

I had suspicion of this as well. I didn't report it or investigate much because I try not to assume the worst of people but it does make me sad as someone that has given and received a LOT of mutual aid through this site.

Feel like it's a no win situation. Gave a couple times to this account when they were claiming imminent death from hypoglycemia - at least enough for a couple meals and to get out of immediate danger. I got absolutely blown up over the next couple days with repeated "i'm going to die of hypoglycemia, please give more" messages. Felt pretty suspicious, sad to see it's been a recurring problem

I don't know how you can prevent scams without leveling unnecessary scrutiny at people who really benefit from mutual aid.

Thank you for having the courage to post this.

All I knew was that hypoglycemia does not work that way (living with several diabetics), but I just eventually blocked these accounts and then felt bad about it. Also noticed the same paypal doing rounds for separate requests.

It's great that these are addressed as these have probably eroded trust in the mutual aid space.

Honestly thought this person was already called out a while ago.