🚨 Mastodon DOES NOT ask you to verify yourself, EVER.

[chris__martin@functional.cafe]

@stux Also seeing some sort of spam campaign regarding "monetizing your account" at the moment

[revk@toot.me.uk]

@stux one of the predictable issues with all this verification bullshit was fake verifications… annoying.

[louis@social.ikacode.com]

@chris__martin @stux I also got it and suspended the account (a phishing attempt).

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@stux

Bumped into one tonight too...

[steve@social.coop]

@sortius @stux Or, as someone else put it, my voice is my passport.

[poisonpunk@mastodon.social]

@stux
what about #GazaVerified ?

[draeath@infosec.exchange]

@poisonpunk @stux that's a separate and (I believe) legitimate thing people are trying to manage.

I see a lot of #gazaverified people acting kinda spammy, though, but I am never sure it's not just a misunderstanding of how to use the platform or sheer desperation.

[salty@mastodon.nz]

@chris__martin @stux Which is hilarious on the face of it. Of all the places to go to 'monetize your content' Mastodon ain't it.

[fallsmom@mastodon.coffee]

@stux

You keep our mastodon coffee pretty darn clean of bad stuff, thanx!

[adminkirsty@infosec.space]

@MarkBrigham
Using the ellipsis (3 dots) below the toot, it brings up a menu which includes Report. It can also be done from the ellipsis on their account page.
As always, fedi.tips has this covered

Reporting problematic content or nasty behaviour to moderators on the Fediverse | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

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@stux

[m3ow@bark.lgbt]

@stux my home address is 293 Tanglewood Dr, New Castle, PA 16105 can you please verify me

[pseudonymsupreme@pnw.zone]

@stux Just reported one myself. Yeeesh. Where’d they all suddenly spring up from?

[andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it]

@sortius @stux "my shitpost is my passport. verify me."

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[travisj@indieweb.social]

@stux Reported!

[poisonpunk@mastodon.social]

@draeath @stux free

[laurikuparinen@mastodon.social]

@stux But, but... how do I know if someone's a celebrity if there's no verification badge?

[oz1sej@mastodon.online]

@Steve @sortius @stux Wasn't it Werner Brandes?

[timmaddog@mstdn.social]

@stux
Lots of fake-looking accounts claiming to be from #Gaza and asking for #money recently. ‍️

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@poisonpunk @stux That’s very specific. And we never reach out to anyone to ask them to get verified.

(And I wish we didn’t need it.)

[stopthatgirl7@famichiki.jp]

@stux @aral I literally just got one from an account claiming to be mastodon staff, where they said they had noticed my posts are getting attention and offering me an opportunity for monetization, with a link to click on. I laughed and laughed and hit “report user,” because lol.