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