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.

      • Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        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.

        • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
          2·
          10 hours 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');