No more scammers!

Team Amino has pushed forward two updates to help combat the spam s that have been plaguing communities over the past week!

I'll try to detail each change below, and give you an idea of how each will do it's part to prevent this situation from escalating further.

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#1: Email Verification for Chats

This update has already taken effect as of last night. Any made in the past 2 months (and all s going forward) require that the their email address prior to being able to do the following: start/ a chat, write comments, or publish a blog/favorite.

How this will help: All of the "Amino####" s are attached to fake email addresses such as Amino6412@gmail.com. By adding this update to our server, none of these s will be able to start chats seeing as they can't receive the verification email. They're also prevented from commenting and posting. Should they attempt to circumvent this, the actual email address they use will be on record with Amino incase we need to pursue further action against them.

Again, this requires no update on your end. Should a real member of your community have issues ing their encourage them to Amino with the form available at the top of this community, we'll be keeping tabs on those more closely.

#2: Safe Browsing

We've submitted new version of Amino to the iOS and Android app stores as of this morning. This newly updated version contains a safer in-app browser which will prevent from filling out any forms not approved by Amino.

How this will help: Many times spam s send out a form attempting to get valuable/sensitive information from their targets. The new update will make it so that using the in-app browser are unable to give away said information, even if they don't realize it's a trick.

The downside: For communities who do survey/ via google forms, you will need to tell your to copy and paste the link into another browser prior to filling it in. While this is a bit inconvenient we'll be working to streamline the process to make sure valid forms are fillable.

This update should be available to everyone by the end of the weekend!

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P.S. These spam s may still appear for the time being, but will be inert due to the change.

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That's all I have for you today, and I hope we can finally put this spam situation behind us.

As always I'll do my best to respond to questions/concerns below.

OP From BirdUp