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Reduce the chance using Old Accounts for Hacks , Scam and Malware things !
by
Lafu
on 20/06/2025, 16:19:52 UTC
⭐ Merited by The Cryptovator (5) ,babo (1) ,Lucius (1)
As the title already explain a little bit whats should be done there is suggestion about Old Accounts that are not active for years !

Most of the Old Accounts that have written here on the Forum after a long time of inactivty for years was used from Hackers to spread Malware and Scams the last years.

This year and the last year Older Accounts from 2021 was used , the year before it was an lot of Accounts 2020.
I can post the exactly numbers of them but that would take some time.

Here also i would say and get big thank you out to all the reporters that looking for Malware , Scam and abusing old Accounts for that.

In the first line this is for theymos , Cyrus and also for the Recovery Team.
Global and also Local Moderators please post your opinion about that as you handle most of that things.
Every other User is also welcome to post your thoughts about that.

My suggestion here for Old Accounts is :
(This is just an Idea and i am open for other Ideas)

  • Old Accounts that havnt post anything or active after the last post in the last 3 years should be taken in some temp cooldown !
    (this means before they can post again they should be going also to an overwatch by the Recovery Team)

I am sure that would helping against Malware posting Accounts , Scammers and other things to abusing this Old Accounts to harm others!

If wanted or needed to change here something i can make a list of the last 5 years what Accounts have posted Malware and suspicious Links.
I dont have given up the fight against Hackers and the bad boys here on the Forum and always looking for how we can make something against them.

I also know its some kind of endless fight as they always will be find a new way , but we can together reduce the space where they can act.

Let me know your opinions.