Spam and scammers

[sekito]

What details can uses see from our profiles here? I've had two scammers direct messaging me in the last day. Asking me my phone number and my real name, pretending to know me. How would I block Direct messages? I don't even know where to find them except for the annoying pop-up.

Of course there is also no way to block notification categories of this members app.

[naynaynorris]

I am not a scammer. That was a legitimate message

[Dolgogi]

Basically, just your user name, badges earned, and posts.

Not a lot, really.

As for blocking people, open the DM you received, tap the 3 dots at the top right, and select Ignore Member.

[sekito]

Yeah one above (norris) said my phone number shows up as their name. I'm not sure what kind of scam they are trying to run. But if they have Armies of these AI Bots and then blocking them one by one isn't the answer

[naynaynorris]

I'm not an AI Bot. This is serious question? Sorry but there is someone who thinks I am you and I don't know how else to prove that I am not. So please help me out here.

Cheers

[Dolgogi]

I've never seen anyone's phone number show up, unless they intentionally posted it to the community.

[sekito]

That's what I thought as well, two people trying to pretend they know me within 24 hours. This has been scraped by some AI and they must be targeting different users

[Dolgogi]

In that case, send an email to make Samsung aware of it.

members.au@samsung.com

[naynaynorris]

Can you please just tell me if you phone number looks like this 0499 **26*7 . Obviously blanked out some for your privacy

[Dolgogi]

Why are you posting this to the community if the member doesn't want to communicate their private details via DM?