I published a gig today for translation work and I have gotten already around 10 messages (within a span of few hours). Most of them get automatically flagged as spam, and follow the scheme of trying to me to add them on Telegram (most definitely a scam). However, those are obviously detectable but there are also some that seem like they could be legitimate (a message that says "hello" or something similar -but replying to those also seems to be a waste of time).
Is the amount of spam really the norm here?
