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.
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.
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');