# What’s going on with the scam accounts today?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320
**Category:** Unrelated Discussion
**Created:** [September 2, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320 "2026-09-02T18:57:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Ian\_Bender](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Ian_Bender)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/1 "2026-09-02T18:57:44Z")
It’s like every few minutes
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### Author:  [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/2 "2026-09-02T19:27:15Z")
It’s actually being going on for the past FEW days
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### Author:  [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/3 "2026-09-02T19:47:24Z")
Gosh. I wish I could remember what it was about… then I’d ask you guys if you minded if I talked to you about it for few minutes… 🤣🤣🤣
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### Author:  [@Yoboe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoboe)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/4 "2026-09-02T19:59:25Z")
I’ve flagged like 15 threads today… the edit history is also bizarre on all of them, like an automated online help bot went rogue lol
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### Author:  [@SpaceCat](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SpaceCat)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/5 "2026-09-02T21:17:36Z")
Saw one earlier where they were looking for love. A little creepy looking back at it…
And embarrassing when I realized they weren’t a real person.
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### Author:  [@Thomas](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Thomas)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/6 "2026-09-03T01:07:26Z")
I run another forum on this same platform and we’re getting a ton on there lately too.
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 1:07am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/7 "2026-09-03T01:07:51Z")
Yes, they were coming so fast we couldn’t keep up with knocking them off. Had to be a bot. I think we deleted 60+ accounts and took down about 70+ spams posts over the last 2 days. Prior to that it was 6-7 a day I think.
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### Author:  [@arcturus](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/arcturus)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/8 "2026-09-03T02:23:38Z")
Thank you for keeping the forums from turning into a giant coinbase ad 🙏
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### Author:  [@kaozmachine](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kaozmachine)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/9 "2026-09-03T08:43:57Z")
Their formats were so similar…
Can we fight bots with bots?
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### Author:  [@SR1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SR1)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/10 "2026-09-03T08:51:57Z")
Heads up… if you have a [“regular” trust level](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/) on this forum you can instantly de-list spam posts by flagging them. It only takes one user with this trust level to do this.
I’ve probably removed like, 6 of them alone today lol
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### Author:  [@Maelstrom](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Maelstrom)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 9:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/11 "2026-09-03T09:41:32Z")
Good to know! I assumed there wasn’t much I could do as the average user. Because of Australian timezones I’m on at weird times so I’ve seen a few last for a while due to low activity.
I’ll chip in where I can, already delisted one
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### Author:  [@Slestak75](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Slestak75)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/12 "2026-09-03T11:32:31Z")
I would take a moment to ask you all about Coinbase if I didn’t fear having my account deleted. 🤣🤣🤣
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### Author:  [@rkalajian](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rkalajian)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/13 "2026-09-03T12:29:14Z")
I’ve been flagging them as I’ve seen them.
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### Author:  [@Benthrowsyoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Benthrowsyoyo)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/14 "2026-09-03T12:29:44Z")
Well you have more to flag. Thank you for your service.
Ps. Most of them seem either copy-pasted or like Markov sentence chains at a precursory glance. I think it might be an ai doing some of crappery. Idk if this helps but 🤷
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### Author:  [@mable](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mable)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 12:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/15 "2026-09-03T12:42:43Z")
cc @codinghorror
I dunno if you’re still with Discourse, I’m kinda curious if the bot spam issue is something the platform as a whole has been battling with more lately. The past few days have been kinda constant.
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### Author:  [@SpaceCat](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SpaceCat)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/16 "2026-09-03T15:40:12Z")
Yay! We’re popular! The scam bots want in…
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### Author:  [@Lingsais](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lingsais)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/17 "2026-09-03T17:16:43Z")
How am i not a regular!? @codinghorror
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### Author:  [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 10:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/18 "2026-09-03T22:14:32Z")
we need to have a way to track slapping them down with flags and have a competition to see who can swat the most spam 🤭
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### Author:  [@The\_Abyss](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/The_Abyss)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/19 "2026-09-03T22:19:58Z")
Look, Ma, we’re famous!!
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### Author:  [@washyjoshe](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/washyjoshe)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2026, 10:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-s-going-on-with-the-scam-accounts-today/452320/20 "2026-09-03T22:36:15Z")
I dig it. I just put tallies on my yoyo when I flag a spam post.
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