Warning About Spam Accounts

[John]

Librarians, please feel free to move this thread to the right folder, but I need to bring this to everyone's attention.

I recently found a comment posting on my author profile asking for review copies of my book, specifically PDF or EPUB, which wouldn't be unusual except that the poster gave a spammy looking gmail address to contact him.

Barely an hour later, someone else posted a comment on an old blog post of mine claiming to want to interview indie authors, and also giving a dodgy looking gmail address. This person claims not to be active on Goodreads and requested direct contact via their email address.

Both accounts look brand new with no visible activity, only two or four books in their libraries, and are set to private. I would rather raise the alarm and have this turn out to be nothing, but please be wary of people contacting you with similar offers to communicate outside of Goodreads.

I've already deleted the two comments, but the profiles of the spam accounts are linked below:

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1...

[Renske]

Spam accounts should be reported to the staff, they are the ones who can deal with those.

[John]

Renske wrote: "Spam accounts should be reported to the staff, they are the ones who can deal with those."

Thanks, I've now figured out how to do that, and not a moment too soon, since these spam accounts are now posting abusive comments about me (and I've reported those comments as well).

[Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂]

Also, librarians can only move their own threads as we are volunteers.

You can move it though (possibly only from Desktop view)
Questions (not edit requests) would probably be the best folder to choose.

[John]

Carol She's So Novel ꧁꧂ wrote: "Also, librarians can only move their own threads as we are volunteers.

You can move it though (possibly only from Desktop view)
Questions (not edit requests) would probably be the best folder to c..."

Thanks! I've just moved it to the suggested folder. Sorry about posting it here in the first place, but it was kind of urgent.

By the way, I received a flurry of abuse from the same scam accounts I was warning about (all of them have now been reported), so my urgency was vindicated.