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How to Report Spam Accounts on deviantArt

I've been noticing this a lot and I want to bring this to everyone's attention: If you ever see a spam comment - like that by karthim1786 I reported recently - advertising some crazy stuff (that one advertised some download, but I've also seen crap like porn sites and viagra (well, kinda a given, lol) and religious stuff and even some shady attorney services) - do not, and I repeat DO NOT HESITATE to check for the following red flags (though just the link is usually enough to discern those spam bots from the average users) if you aren't sure: Nonsense username consisting of letters and numbers (very often); No avatar (also very often); Created during the span of the last 24, maybe 48, hours; Really vague bio (I've seen most of them putting in 'they\them' pronouns (in rare cases 'she/her' if it's some sort of a sex ad) and I have also seen a lot of them put in a country like Pakistan or India (in case of Karthim1786) or another not-as-common here country so they don't even bother to

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How to Report Spam Accounts on deviantArt

I've been noticing this a lot and I want to bring this to everyone's attention: If you ever see a spam comment - like that by karthim1786 I reported recently - advertising some crazy stuff (that one advertised some download, but I've also seen crap like porn sites and viagra (well, kinda a given, lol) and religious stuff and even some shady attorney services) - do not, and I repeat DO NOT HESITATE to check for the following red flags (though just the link is usually enough to discern those spam bots from the average users) if you aren't sure: Nonsense username consisting of letters and numbers (very often); No avatar (also very often); Created during the span of the last 24, maybe 48, hours; Really vague bio (I've seen most of them putting in 'they\them' pronouns (in rare cases 'she/her' if it's some sort of a sex ad) and I have also seen a lot of them put in a country like Pakistan or India (in case of Karthim1786) or another not-as-common here country so they don't even bother to

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