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<div>If user is not existing then its spam profile was likely deleted.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Is this possibility mentioned at page of deleted user?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If not - can you link it? Maybe it can be improved and <br></div><div dir="auto">mention that deleting user is common reason for spam accounts.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In general, in such case I would go to an user profile (if still existing),<br></div><div dir="auto">press report user and as reason put "unexplained friend request, likely<br></div><div dir="auto">spam/scam".<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It may be a repeat of this private message spam, that was advertising porn sites.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Aug 29, 2021, 03:12 by nwastra@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><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><br></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><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thanks,</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span>nevw</span><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>On 29 Aug 2021, at 9:51 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bit of a weird thing to ask about ...<br></div><div><br></div><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.<br></div><div><br></div><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?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Anybody seen this before?<br></div><div><br></div><div>& if it possibly is a scam of some sort (?) who should I report it to? <br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class="" dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks<br></div><div><br></div><div>Graeme<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></div><div><span>Talk-au mailing list</span><br></div><div><span><a href="mailto:Talk-au@openstreetmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Talk-au@openstreetmap.org</a></span><br></div><div><span><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au</a></span><br></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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