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.

@Curator

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.