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Avatar of MrRab5
Just making everyone aware that scammers are potentially using this site to befriend innocent chess players.

I started two daily (48 hours) games from the open section, and within a few moves i received identical messages
“interesting opening; where are you from?”

I was playing the vienna, nothing too interesting about it at move 2.

Having looked at both the profiles, both were started on 1st april this year, both are playing around 40 games at a time.

Ive reported both accounts but just to let everyone be vigilant
Avatar of justbefair
MrRab5 wrote:
Just making everyone aware that scammers are potentially using this site to befriend innocent chess players.
I started two daily (48 hours) games from the open section, and within a few moves i received identical messages
“interesting opening; where are you from?”
I was playing the vienna, nothing too interesting about it at move 2.
Having looked at both the profiles, both were started on 1st april this year, both are playing around 40 games at a time.
Ive reported both accounts but just to let everyone be vigilant

Thank you for reporting them.

Avatar of Winter_Biking

I had a couple of persons asking about social media/Telegram after just a few moves in first game. I suspect these were scammers. Asked some critical question to one of them. Got some rude messages back at the end.

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
Winter_Biking wrote:

I had a couple of persons asking about social media/Telegram after just a few moves in first game. I suspect these were scammers. Asked some critical question to one of them. Got some rude messages back at the end.

You should report them if you haven't already.

https://support.chess.com/en/articles/8562517-how-do-i-report-someone