Just been spammed! Attempted virus

[Former_Member]

Hi all i've just been spammed with a potential virus.

Does anyone know how I can report this convo?

For your info, dont open a message from someone named auiiiiii.

[Former_Member]

I got the spam too. It was blatantly obvious that it was a spam.
Like all spam, I did not open the message.
There is no "mark as spam/delete" button in the Convo area for unopened messages, so I simply deleted it and went on with daily life...

[Former_Member]

It was the first time for me, it'll be obvious next time.

Thanks :)

[artangel]

There's a spate of these at the moment - I got one this morning too.

[WISHsupplies]

i got it too and deleted it.

thanks u for the fast reaction!

[Studio11Charms]

how do we all protect ourselves from "Spam" convos if we have never encounter one before?

[Retromagination]

Me too! UGH! Is there no place safe???? How/what do we do? It must be a universal problem?

[Former_Member]

I just got a spam from wwtoooooo but it just said that i could download music, it was so random

[Former_Member]

i got it too

[frenchsoul]

And i got it too and just deleted it. But how can they find me when buyers can't? Incredible!!

[Former_Member]

You can't protect against spam here. Convos don't have an anti-virus or link-checker function. Convos also do not have any sort of block filters so you can't specify how to block an email (like if it contains a gibberish phrase or "enlarge your ____", etc.) before it gets to you.

Hopefully the Etsy team will delete the spammer accounts and we'll all be okay again.

[EviesToolEmporium]

To report to Etsy!
In the upper right hand side of your screen it says "Help".
http://help.etsy.com/app/home/?ref=si_help

[Former_Member]

Thank for the information. I was half asleep when I opened it and didn't know if by doing so my computer would start having problems. In the future, I'll be more careful.

[GrowingUpWild]

I got one too from weeaaaa asking me to click on a google link. When I clicked to try to see their profile they had already closed their account.

[SunshineCottage]

Also, at the bottom of the page on your e-mail that says you've got a convo - there is a report abuse link - I used that and Etsy was very quick in responding and letting me know that they had removed the offender.

[Former_Member]

I got one too. From a similar name as all of you, don't remember exactly.

It was in my email as well since I have them forwarded to my email. I forwarded it onto abuse@etsy.com

[Former_Member]

i got it too, i didn't open it.

[Former_Member]

I just deleted it. Yes it was obviously spam and not clever at that either. Do these losers think we can fall for this trap?

[windrosie]

I got these too, but looking at the names realized what they were and deleted them. I was so surprised the spammers are on Etsy as well :)