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<p>I've had a few of these as well (different names to the ones
mentioned). In the one example that I got to before the user was
deleted, the profile had a link that claimed to be to a porn site.</p>
<p>If anyone sees any of these, the best thing to do is to click the
"report user" button in the user profile and report it as spam.
The admins tend to delete them fairly quickly.</p>
<p>If "there is no user with that name" then it means that someone
else has reported the user already and they have already been
deleted. I believe that (or the user renaming their own username)
is the only way that a user can appear as not existing.</p>
<p>Best Regards,</p>
<p>Andy</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/29/21 2:12 AM, nwastra wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">I have also been added as a friend by user
‘Debra_Devries’ but on going to the link which seems
legitimate, the user does not exist.</span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255,
255, 0);">Maybe my new friend has to do some edits before
coming in to existence for the link?</span></div>
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On 29 Aug 2021, at 9:51 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a
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<div>Bit of a weird thing to ask about ...</div>
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<div>Open up the e-mail this morning & there's an OSM
message (which certainly appears legit?) to say that "this
person" has added me as a friend.</div>
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<div>That's nice, but it appears to be a real name that I
don't know, & when I go to look at their user page, it
says that that user doesn't exist?</div>
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<div>Anybody seen this before?</div>
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<div>& if it possibly is a scam of some sort (?) who
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