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Post #264504

2025-08-31 10:46 UTC

Starting to see accounts that have been compromised after clicking on the fake 'verify your account' spam that's doing the rounds here. Please boost for visibility: * Familiarise yourself with you instance's admin and moderator accounts and ONLY trust account-related messages from those accounts. * Do not click links without confirming with your instance staff that they're legit! * Generally, any problems with your account will be brought up via email, not from a random fediverse handle.

Replies (6)

  • @leymoo@hachyderm.io 2025-08-31 11:50

    @Curator@mastodon.art

    Open ##2899596

  • @leeloo@chaosfem.tw 2025-08-31 12:47

    @Curator@mastodon.art You don't need to know admin accounts. I've had services messages. I've even gotten a warning ("strike") from an admin of a previous instance. Every single one has been a notification, NOT a post. For good reasons. Not only does it make it easy to see which ones are from the actual admin, but posts get missed all the time. Apps show these notifications in different ways, but they do not show up in between the mentions and replies. In the app I use, it's a separate icon that shows up st the top.

    Open ##2899597

  • @cavyherd@wandering.shop 2025-08-31 13:05

    @Curator@mastodon.art Thank you for the heads up. Just spotted one of these. Blocked & reported.

    Open ##2899599

  • @Rinakochi@tootworld.social 2025-08-31 19:57

    @Curator@mastodon.art how we do know that the account got hacked Idk this didn't happened to me but I need to know how can we stop it

    Open ##2899603

  • @Curator@mastodon.art People should be familiar with who runs their servers in general, if only to know who to direct complaints/suggestions and gratitude toward.

    Open ##2899605

  • @Curator@mastodon.art I had that scam on my Mastodon, I had to ask the lad if it was Kosher. He said Mastodon would never contact you like that, they would e-mail you, plus below the Mastodon sign is an 'odd' inter-net address. But it will fool many.

    Open ##3790561