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Seems to be another way to spam.  Have received two private messages this week spamming.  This last one from a newbie "taistatizwrap".

Yes, they found a new way to spam. I also received letters, but I do not read them, if I see that it looks like spam.

You are not the only one who do receive these PM's which I have receive some message too but I would say better neglect or delete it directly since usually message have been sent out usually regarding on their ICO or new coin which they are recruiting or convincing you to invest on them.I don't know why they do such thing since they can simply post an ann thread and let the people read up their project.

Just ignore every mesage that will come to you if you think that they are scam. Aa long as you dont cliick any link your account is safe. Hackers will try to do anything just get or steal money from other people.

yes it's really unpleasant

Everyday i recieved messages coming from newbie accounts advertising some kind of site and ico, even now someone send me a private messages about his website which is poker btc, anyone recieved the same messages that i get?

Even I also received these type of messages. I think some one in our forum is running a service of promoting ICOs via pm. But we cant do anything against it. If we complain to the admin, may be they will give them red trust or ban them. That's it. That too all are newbie accounts. If they receive red trust, they will create another account for promotion.

That's a terrible way to promote an ICO in our opinion. Doesn't give a good impression at all and screams scam.

With a significant number of 'ICOs' not completing their offer & falling by the wayside, this scamming just shows how much you need to do 'due diligence' on each and every coin or token you are interested in.

I too keep receiving them very often these days.Those are likely newbie shill bot accounts made for the spamming purpose.All you have to do is report the message to an admin/moderator.They will likely ban the account,wouldn't help much but will certainly keep them in control.

Hey dude,i have the PM from him to,but the moderator is always give us a warning notice,and i was always to listenning about all mod say so i delete that PM.

And what he is spamming about?

if the person who sends private messages to you are not trusted  just ignore the message and delete it at once if its not important, or maybe blocked them immediately so they can no longer send any message.

This is what I'm doing which If I do receive those kind of spam messages I do report it to moderator and then delete it. I don't try to read up those things and they do always mention about ICO stuffs regarding investing etc. Sometimes I do receive that Gunbot thing. Don't know how to stop on receiving those messages even you do ignore that user another newbie account will patch up to send you message.

I do not pay attention to such letters. Very often I send them a scam. So they just need to be ignored. At the same time you can complain to the moderator on sending spam.

There are so many spams coming these days via PM. And mostly from new members advertising one thing or the other. It's just appalling.
It all boils down to personal safety and taking caution in dealing with such persons.

A lot of spam comes in recently, but I do not pay attention to them, there are basically all scammers. Be careful, do not accept their suggestions. The mail is also very much spam.

I ever get such a junk private message and the sender is still newbie level, whether the user is not banned?

Yeah,it is normal because many newbie try to contact you everyday this is new way of scamming they try to steal your money so always we have to ignore this kind of messages.
And some messages in the form of please join in our bounty program,if it is a good bounty program then people will automatically promote their project so only scam project will search for members.

Me too, i also received some spam messages in my inbox. There is some links stated on their messages i think they are advertising their companies, but im too lazy to read when a message comes from a brand new account. We don't really know if its a scammer or not, so ive just deleted their messages and don't give attention for them.

Every time I get one, I just roper it to a moderator. There's a drop down for this in your inbox.

The Mods will block & a new name will be used & spamming will continue.  Even if the Mods are blocking the ip address, with VPNs, blocking ip and names doesn't mean much. 

 

I always receive messages every Sunday, various offers, mostly Ico projects.
I always ignore when it's a message from a beginner .

I also got many messages from newbie ICO's in the last one month
What to do?

I now start to receive spams in my inbox from newbies. Some are marketing ICOs. Be careful of the links they provide everyone.

Any spam messages should be deleted and not open links enclosed in them. Opening such links in spam mails can lead to bad consequences. I always immediately delete such emails, even if there is a small suspicion of spam

Don't clik, maybe it's just a trap, just ignore it because it's very risk. they are hacker who want to steal your coin money ::)

Constantly something is sent, I just do not pay attention, it's spam and it does not cost neither my nor your attention.

Yeah, same every now and then i get a junk pm telling me about some junk ico ;d

Same here , i always get message telling me to invest or join in thier upcoming token sale,  but my answer is always " im not interested try another person. Every time that i get message like that , the same answer as always.

I wonder how they collected all the profiles to spam with private message?

Basically these messages come from beginners. I do not even read them, just opened them and immediately closed them.

Use report to moderator button and in comments write advertisement spam.
It is very common thing here and I don't think moderators can fight it, but still it is good to report such things.
They don't understand that spam will cause that no one will check their project.

i think the spam is mostly done by a newbie who have no basic knowledge of this platform a, as i am also a newbie but i think spaming is not ethical 

You should immediately inform the moderator about this newsletter. I once a week receive letters with ideas to invest. But these projects are pacifiers.

Not only you who received spam messages. I also received several messages from newbies. I just ignore it and delete it. Maybe they are trying to use the PM button on their profile. But the best thing you can do is not to response them back, ignore or delete it.

I have also received these messages of new accounts in these days with more intensity than before.

Yes, I received messages too, for ICO to join there group which is so bad.

i also receive three spams from newbies here, i already reported some of them before and now they are coming back with much more of them.

I just laugh at their messages and never bother to read and delete it right away. Most of them are newbie accounts and telling to invest in their ICO.

I have been receiving private message spams that endorses their project and most of those messages are coming from a newbie. These people are being ignored I'm not interested to their private and they bother to advertise through personal message. I don't take them seriously and if they want to advertise they had to remain on their ANN thread's or signatures.

Never mind them, ignore them completely. If they are not maliciously motivated why should't they use the proper way of getting attention. Chances are you will get a malware, virus or phished or hacked.

Yes absolutely right, think before you click. Not all but many of them are scammer and just waiting a correct time to attack. Just be careful guys and report to moderator if you want to avoid them and help others. We need to educate our self in such a simple way like that.

that's hard, because in truth most of the people are full of curiosity. so if we can not really understand about the scam, we would be easily affected by a scam

i've been getting a lot of these lately, is there a way to disable pm's from newbies?

I have been getting them as well. I do believe newbie has kind of limited on pm per day. But, they always can get more newbie accounts.

If there any option please tell me too. I think the only option is to report those spammer to moderator in case you encounter them. You can make a difference once you report them.

For me as abeginner her i never click alink or open amassage from strager without arrangement

Yeah that is the best way to deal to strangers that sends you private message or sometimes link not once but two to three times a week,whenever i get this message immediately delete them.

I hate that too. I can't understand, do they really not understand that every single person admits the project as a scam because of this kind of an advertisement?

Yeah, all come from Brand New account too. I thought we have restricted for new account in PM?

Basically, all messages from newbies are spam, or even malicious links, I never recommend switching them

Yes, newbie accounts do have restrictions on sending Personal message among users but its not totally long for them to wait to send another message into other user which I would say that entire days sending of those spam messages would be sufficient for them. I have receive tons of messages from newbie users either ICO-related or Trading Bot related which I didn't really bother to engage with it.

Anyone else seen a sudden increase in newbies trying to promote ICOs over PMs?

Yes, all accounts also experienced such a thing. If it is felt only make useless posts or just litter alone will get a private message from a moderator whose contents could be the removal of postings or exposed to close your account temporarily or permanently can also.

I got three time message like that. How we act with people like that? Because its annoying.
Can we put red trust or not? Just asking. If yes, then i got many messages im several time then i will do that.

got another one when i just logged on, its so annoying
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Every message that comes in we better be careful, don't be too trust,delete it is not important.

Don't click if you think it's a scam. Just leave it be and never trust anyone. It's prefeberable to build your knowledge first before considering engaging with it.

I also received some spam messages. There are some links listed on their message, but I am too lazy to read when the message comes from a new account. i do not really know if that is a scammer or not.

just ignoring it. sometimes those spams will be the scammer who wants to attack your account. so just be careful if you get spam message in your account.

well, now we have to be careful. Many are trying to hack someone's account, make sure and read carefully if you want to open a link.