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1 hour ago, spinnekop04 said:

That is a fantastic idea - to set a limit to new account messages that do not have an active gig or payment method set. As I am writing this reply, I have received my fourth spam message for the day... (sigh)

Thank you. I have analyzed the work of the spammers on this platform from the messages I have received and I see that their goal is to motivate normal users to go to telegram or get an email address.

What do you think they might be doing that for? Are they trying to get personal information in this way or will they continue to fraudulently try to get our money outside of the platform?
Or is this such a deceptive way to get hold of the seller's account data on this plafthorm? 

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1 hour ago, miiila said:

Yes, please, but to all accounts, not just to new accounts, replying to 30 spam messages a day takes us with old accounts just as much of our precious limited time on earth as it does new accounts 🕛

You are certainly right. 

As an alternative solution to deal with spam, I think the Fiverr platform could also just use different versions of captcha before sending each next message to a new contact beyond a reasonable limit.

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1 hour ago, spinnekop04 said:

Hi fellow Freelancers!

Are there any other Fiverr users that are seeing an increasing amount of spam messages? I am getting anything from 2 to 5 spam messages per day from seemingly new users who don't know how to use the platform. I have contacted support about this and it was said that if I report these messages, it counts as a response and will therefore not affect my response rate. However, my response rate has now fallen from a constant 96% to 83%. I respond to ALL my messages in a timely manner and am very diligent about this. I even went over all my messages to ensure I didn't miss anything. I know how the response rate system works so it truly does not make sense why my response rate would plummet like that unless the spam messages are to blame. I would like to find out if anyone is having the same issue since contacting support was not able to provide answers.

Regards

Good afternoon. I'm new here, but have also encountered this spam problem. In the last 24 hours I got over 30 users spamming me with offers to go to their telegram account or send them my email address. As a rule after a few minutes these users are blocked by the platform, but it doesn't stop them from apparently creating new accounts.

Perhaps it would help to improve the situation if the platform sets a limit on sending new messages to new accounts that for example have not activated a payment method or have not created their own GIG.