HACKER AND SPAM BOTS update 8/5/2020

Sewing Amino

UPDATE 08/05/2020

There is a new spam/scam bot on Amino this time they are using the gobal chat and comments to send links. DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK. Let all spam attacks DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK. The link could easily lead them to your personal s, bank s whatever they are after. It's not worth the trouble so don't engage.

This is on the your main page that collect all the community's you are in. With that being said there is not much we can do but keep everyone informed.

You can disable the chats by going to your global chat and selecting Allow Inbound Chats Request and disabling it.

Since this is your global profile there isn't much we can do but do keep safe.

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WE KNOW ABOUT THE PROBLEM AND ARE WORKING HARD TO TACKLE IT.

The best thing you can do is:

1. Go the profile, click on the three dots in the upper right corner

2. Click on "Flag for Review"

3. Select "Nudity & Pronography", and say "Spam bot sending sexual explicit messages."

4. Hit submit

This way the report goes straight to TA (higher up) and they are able to tackle more bots.

NEW BOTS

We noticed that there are new type of bots in SA. These bots DM with links that lead to websites that contains extreme 18+ mature content.

NEVER open sketchy links

They are using the same picture with a name and numbers

If you get a DM with web links that looks sketchy, NEVER open them! Even if they don't look sketchy at first, NEVER open links, especially from unknown . If you do open them, most likely what will happen is that your will be taken over. Meaning you will lose everything and you will not be able to get you back.

Please keep calm, if you don't click on links nothing will happen. Just be careful, especially on in the internet. You just never know nowadays and these cybercriminals are getting smarter. This is not the first time this has happened, and it will continue to happen. I'm pretty sure that Team Amino is aware of these cybercriminals and they are trying to take care of it.

Scroll a bit further you can see what to do when you get messaged and how to turn off messages.

We have noticed a pattern in some of the bots profiles.

1. NO profile picture

Random name with 5 random numbers. Below some examples.

NEVER open sketchy links

If you get a DM with web links that looks sketchy, NEVER open them! Even if they don't look sketchy at first, NEVER open links, especially from unknown . If you do open them, most likely what will happen is that your will be taken over. Meaning you will lose everything and you will not be able to get you back.

NEVER open sketchy links

If you get a DM with web links that looks sketchy, NEVER open them! Even if they don't look sketchy at first, NEVER open links, especially from unknown . If you do open them, most likely what will happen is that your will be taken over. Meaning you will lose everything and you will not be able to get you back.

Please keep calm, if you don't click on links nothing will happen. Just be careful, especially on in the internet. You just never know nowadays and these cybercriminals are getting smarter. This is not the first time this has happened, and it will continue to happen. I'm pretty sure that Team Amino is aware of these cybercriminals and they are trying to take care of it.

Scroll a bit further you can see what to do when you get messaged and how to turn off messages.

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Every now and then we get spam bots, please keep an eye out on them.

How to handle hackers/spammers/bots/cybercriminals or whatever you want to call them. If they send you a message with a link, DON'T CLICK ON THE LINK. FLAG THE PERSON IMMEDIATELY!!!

1.) FLAG THE PERSON

2.) DON'T talk to them

3.) DON'T approach them and say "hey you're a hacker". DON'T do this, it's NO use

4.) DON'T click on the link.

5.) Just ignore and delete the conversation.

To flag a person

1.Go to their profile

2.Click the three dots at the top right corner( ... )

3.There will be a flag tab.

4. By clicking the sexually explicit content tab it will go to the higher up.

Don't want messages from strangers?

1.) Open the side menu, and scroll down

2.) Click on 'Settings'

3.) Scroll down till you see 'Allow Inbound Chat Requests'. Click on it.

Click on ' I'm Following'

(please make sure to follow all the leaders and curators, otherwise we can't you want it's needed)

[]We will try to handle this fast

Sewing Amino Team