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.
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');