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Has anyone else been receiving scam messages lately? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Over the past few days, I have received 2 identical scam direct messages from freshly created accounts on different instances (I immediately blocked user and messaged instance admins, with no response yet), namely aggregatet.org and feddit.rocks. I was wondering if others had experienced this issue, so I could see if it was an escalating issue.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In the default Lemmy interface, it should be a flag icon. It's possible it's different if you're using an app?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks. My singular brain cell for some reason missed that button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No problem - we're unfortunately unable to delete the messages themselves the way we can remove a public comment, but rest assured we will fire the account into the sun (or, you know, just ban them from messaging our local users).

I also know that the admins of other servers are aware of the issue, so I encourage everyone to make reports, regardless of their home server.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You can, but you have to do it through the database, unfortunately. Just replace the actor IDs with the one(s) reported:

update private_message
set deleted = true
from person
where person.id = private_message.creator_id
and person.actor_id in ('https://lemmings.world/u/missy29', 'https://aggregatet.org/u/sognar');

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I am, yes. But I've got a pc at home, I'll have to check on there.

Thank you!