Scammers and duplicate accounts reporting

_wildflower_

I rejoined MFP recently after years of being away. I was disappointed there is no longer a newsfeed as it helped me with success to have that team support. I don’t really see the point of having friends on here without that. I recently accepted a FR from a man who had a pretty sad story and also pretty quickly wanted to chat via whatsapp. I told him I am not interested in getting to know people individually online. He was persistent so I just stopped responding. Then I saw today I got a duplicate request with the same profile pic but different username from him. I went to try to report him but none of the links work to be able to do so, so I am doing it here.

cmriverside

Yeah. I'm not staff, just another member like yourself.

I stopped adding "friends" some years ago.

No real benefit in having them on here at all.

I'm glad you know better than to reply to WhatsApp requests. So many scammers out there.

COGypsy

MFP is just another form of social media and we all need to remember to keep our guard up in any virtual interactions. If you wouldn't accept a stranger's friend request on Facebook or Instagram, you probably shouldn't accept them here. Like the other poster said, without the newsfeed there is about zero benefit to collecting "friends", especially requests from people that don't even post on the community boards.

durden

You can report scammers directly to a staff member via DM, create a support ticket to report them, or if you have email notifications set up for friend requests there is a "report friend request" button that will do all of that for you if you click it.