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WHY IS MY ACCOUNT FLAGGED AS SPAM?! #60356
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Select Topic AreaGeneral BodyMy account has been flagged for 2 days and 1 week now for “spam”. I have contacted GitHub support, and they have not replied to my distress calls at all. The incident happened on June 28, 2023 when I tried to save my VSCode/VSCodium profile twice on GitHub using GitHub Gists. I received a notification from GitHub afterwards informing me that my account has been flagged for “spam”. Which I view as complete bullshit. If saving your VSCode/VSCodium profile twice in GitHub Gists results in your GitHub profile being flagged as “spam”: After this is over I am deleting VSCodium/VSCode from my computer. Fuck that piece of shit software. |
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Update: This issue is solved now. Turns out you're not allowed to use a throwaway email address for your account. |
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my account is marked as spam please resolve this issue thanks |
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mine is also. |
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Which is ridiculous I am also facing the same issue, and I did not use a "throwaway" email account, just a plain gmail address I've had for years. This is absurd. |
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I have some bad news for you: I've been waiting for more than six weeks already |
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please resolve this issue too for my account thanks |
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Hey, Did they contact you? My account was also flagged as spam and it has been weeks but they are not replied to me. |
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My account has been flagged as a spam for like its more than 1 month and half but still they have not removed this flag and I got bored really i can not do any thing with my git hub account I can not collaborate or any activities with others !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Friends, tell me please, to whom should I contact with my problem? My account has been marked as "SPAM" for several months now. To whom should I write? And how can this be fixed? How can I contact support? Thank you in advance! |
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My account has also been flagged for spam even though both emails I have are registered emails. One for School, One for Personal |
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hey bro, did you find any solutions? mine flagged for 3 weeks now |
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Mine too has been flagged for the same issue, and i dont know what to do next, please someone help |
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Hello! Can you please tell me why when I try to verify my account in a third party application, your system shows me this window: "You have been flagged as spam and therefore cannot authorize a third party application"? Please help me solve this problem. |
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Hey, Did they contact you? My account was also flagged as spam. |
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Hi! No, no one contacted me. Do you have any news on this topic? |
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Hey, My account was also flagged as spam. |
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I have the same problem :( |
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me too |
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me too |
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I account was also marked as spam, Don't know where to start solving this problem, I have an app to maintain, Please help. |
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Is your issue resolve |
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https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/60356#discussioncomment-7251790 |
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I have the same problem and the only thing github does is redirect to your support page, please help me to solve this. |
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The same problem persists on my account too and i'm also unable to use github co-pilot.i hope someone resolves this issue fast |
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I have the same problem with my account as well. |
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I ran into this issue with some students trying to setup an account. This is a really odd feature that does not seem to be working and is just auto marking student accounts as spam. The mark response that is marked as the answer is not an actual answer to this problem. The "throw away email" response provides no context or path to solving the problem posted. |
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monopoly bro my account was flagged over a month now and no one is responding to my claims. |
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Hi Everyone, |
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Hi @MohsinDev369, I have filled the Appeal and Reinstatement form a week ago and I still have not received any reply and my account is still marked as spam. Can you please let me know how much it took you to solve the spam issue? I am using that account in my CV and it hurts my reputation. Please let me know how long it took you to solve the issue. Thanks in advance. |
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There is no response from the support team, even though I raised a ticket a month ago! |
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sorry to bother, did you find any solutions? |
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sorry to bother, did you find any solutions? |
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mine too no response from github over a month this is not good at all |
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My account is also marked as spam. I am really frustrated I can't even send pr. pls look in to this issue. |
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OH FUCKING HELL. I cannot authorize a third party app, I am flagged "Your are marked as spam...". A fucking steaming pile of garbage, GitHub what the hell?!!! |
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Hi my account was also flagged as "spammy". Pls help |
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So what i have to do ? wait or something
…On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 at 15:36, iedwards ***@***.***> wrote:
I have a second GitHub account for admin -- I've upgraded that account to
PRO ($4 a month) and then contacted support from that account using the Appeal
and Reinstatement form <https://support.github.com/contact/reinstatement>.
I hope this will result in a priority response...
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Yeah, this happened for me, but at that time my account was hacked, and I waited about a week and after that it gave control back. |
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Ok, thanks. Let's see and wait then
…On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 3:55 PM maneletttt ***@***.***> wrote:
I'll do the same, but this is not the way to go, Github should do
something about it.
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By the way any quick solution ?? because it affects my view in marketplace
and my clients faces issues to find me
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… Ok, thanks. Let's see and wait then
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> I'll do the same, but this is not the way to go, Github should do
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How can my account be marked as spammy without any warning, explanation or prove that I've done something spammy. And then whenever I open a reinstatement request I am just ignored? No fair... |
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I've been locked out for 48 hours. I've no idea why. I've now upgraded from PRO to Enterprise and submitted a new support ticket for the new enterprise account (not for the PRO personal account) asking for urgent help and given the ticket number from my original request. Who knows whether it will help. |
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I agree with you.
…On Tue, Apr 30, 2024, 5:12 PM maneletttt ***@***.***> wrote:
Han can my account be marked as spammy without any warning, explanation or
prove that I've done something spammy. And then whenever I open a
reinstatement request I am just ignored? No fair...
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In April 2024 my account was unfrozen 3 days after first contacting support. It may have been unfrozen faster if the email on the secondary GitHub account (which I used to contact support) had used the same email address as the account that was frozen. I think upgrading the secondary account to PRO helped to get faster response times, but I'm not certain whether it really made much difference. GitHub didn't provide any explanation, or apologise, for freezing me out of my account. |
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My account has been marked as spam, I marked spam when Github mattered to me most, in a project where I was the lead Engineer and could not integrate with Vercel, Netlify or any platform. I cannot get invitations. I've written to support for more than two weeks already and no response, this is really unfair. Right now I'm trying to execute a task in which Github is the only platform I can log in with, and I cannot do that cause I was marked as spam. Who has any idea on what I could do? |
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@FlawlessCasual17 I could really use your expertise |
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I got randomly marked as spam too |
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Same issue TT |
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Hi did you get your account back ? i have the same issue ?? i have also put a support ticket it's over 3weeks now. |
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My account too got marked as scam. What was the reason, I got logged in from some place, because of GitHub's issue, they created multiple repositories. The main thing was that My 2-step verification was not used, no email was sent to me upon being logged in, instead of maintaining the system, GitHub seems to like to mark my account scam and not respond to request for the past 2 months. Doesn't even allow reinstating a new request, and never replies to a single request, and even the status is same. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/131843 |
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My issue solved after I asked my coworkers to create an issue and then ask them to look into it. I asked them via this after about 2 months, and 15 days, I got the issue solved. The case was solved and I got my account back. You could ask your friends, and then ask them to create a new case and then provide the username, case id, email of your case. That way, the case would be in their sight again. |
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I got the same issue and even I didn't receive any warning about this. I sent the request and just wait? This really make me upset. Can't share as well as collab with my teammates, can I know this bullshit problem got solved ? |
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Git hub doesn't like certain email domains such as Aliases that people use to protect themselves from Spam and so on because they can also be used to spam people without consequence.
Additionally, Github likes certain details filled out on your account profile to.
All ridiculous....
…On Saturday, July 27th, 2024 at 1:17 AM, Lelouch vi Britannia ***@***.***> wrote:
I've been facing an issue with my main GitHub account [HimanshuMohanty-Git24](https://github.com/HimanshuMohanty-Git24) being marked as spam. I submitted a reinstatement request (#2875574) over three weeks ago but haven't received any response. I'm feeling quite stuck because I can't collaborate with my team members due to this problem. I was simply pushing a project when my account was flagged. Can anyone help or suggest what I should do next? 🙏🙏
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same issue here😆😆 |
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LOL. My account was flagged two months ago, and it's most likely a mistake. I waited two months for a response, and eventually, support told me I had uploaded some binary file to my repository without the source code, then closed the thread. They didn’t provide any information on what was wrong, just gave a generic response. I didn't upload any files (I checked the commits in every repository from that period). I hope this is a joke—how could such nonsense happen in 2024? Time to move to GitLab LOL |
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How GitHub Support Helped Me Resolve Account Flagging: A 5-Day Proces October 13, 2024: October 15, 2024: GitHub Support replied, informing me that my account might have been compromised and restricted for security reasons. October 17, 2024: After reviewing my account, I found suspicious repositories and integrations that I didn’t create. October 18, 2024: GitHub Support confirmed they had cleared the restrictions on my account.
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Where can I create a support ticket |
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Search on google. It's easy. |
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@SurajSanap I'm marked as spam too for no reason |
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Update: This issue is solved now. Turns out you're not allowed to use a throwaway email address for your account.