WHY IS MY ACCOUNT FLAGGED AS SPAM?!

[FlawlessCasual17]

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My 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”:
THEN WHY EVEN BOTHER HAVING SUCH A FEATURE IN THE SOFTWARE THAT WILL RESULT IN CAUSING A FUCKING PROBLEM FOR THE USER?!!

After this is over I am deleting VSCodium/VSCode from my computer. Fuck that piece of shit software.

[FlawlessCasual17]

Update: This issue is solved now. Turns out you're not allowed to use a throwaway email address for your account.

[saahilkhanna]

how do you get them to respond to you, been waiting 2 weeks with an open tikcet

[ccwud]

mine is also.

[eduardocrespo]

mine is also marked as spam, please resolve this issue too for my account

[vrj93]

It's been 1 month and 2 days—still No response to my reinstatement ticket. 😔

[Unknowndestroy]

I tried to contact them, they send me this and didnt unmarked my account as spam
Hi there,

Thank you for contacting GitHub Support and for your patience.

We are currently experiencing an unexpectedly high volume of tickets, and we appreciate your understanding as we work to assist you.

Some of the activity on your account has caught the attention of our abuse-detecting systems and your account has been flagged for a manual review.

Could you please share a little more with us on how you plan to use GitHub?

I look forward to hearing back from you soon.

All the best,
Tony

and now they are dont answering me for 21 days

[haseebyousuff]

Hey, Did they contact you? My account was also flagged as spam and it has been weeks but they are not replied to me.

[Programmer061703]

My account has also been flagged for spam even though both emails I have are registered emails. One for School, One for Personal

[sliyarli]

My account has also been flagged for spam even though both emails I have are registered emails. One for School, One for Personal

hey bro, did you find any solutions? mine flagged for 3 weeks now

[Micro992]

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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How did you solve it ?

[Micro992]

My account has also been flagged for spam even though both emails I have are registered emails. One for School, One for Personal

hey bro, did you find any solutions? mine flagged for 3 weeks now

How did you solve it now?

[beastbond]

Shitty platform with shit service, moving to codeberg...

[GaryFil]

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.

[AlekseyChusov]

Hey, Did they contact you? My account was also flagged as spam.
what do I need to do?

[GaryFil]

Hi! No, no one contacted me. Do you have any news on this topic?

[Faisulalam]

Hey, My account was also flagged as spam.
what do I need to do?

[nblive15]

I have the same problem :(

[jasonMatillano]

me too

[echinsito]

me too

[cuong02n]

Was it solved?

[MohsinDev369]

I account was also marked as spam, Don't know where to start solving this problem, I have an app to maintain, Please help.

[arunkatoch-dev]

Is your issue resolve

[MohsinDev369]

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/60356#discussioncomment-7251790

[M-Shariq-546]

I agree with you.

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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... — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#60356 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AZXTYKDWBAPWKNXFXFIUDSDY76DCPAVCNFSM6AAAAAA2DAOAQ6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43SRDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHM4TENZUG4YTS> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[iedwards]

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.

[Micholn]

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?

[Micholn]

@FlawlessCasual17 I could really use your expertise

[ghost]

I got randomly marked as spam too

[BunyaphonCh]

Same issue TT

[HimanshuMohanty-Git24]

Hi did you get your account back ? i have the same issue ?? i have also put a support ticket it's over 3weeks now.

[neupkishor]

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
This link has got my case details.

[neupkishor]

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.

[Jgl92]

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 This link has got my case details.

[khanhqueng]

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 ?

[igneousrock84]

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....

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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? 🙏🙏 — Reply to this email directly, [view it on GitHub](#60356 (comment)), or [unsubscribe](https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BEG4ZM5ESRK34UU6BC35YUTZONJS3AVCNFSM6AAAAAA2DAOAQ6VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTAMJWGYZDCNA). You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[bonface221]

same issue here😆😆

[al-zakharov]

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

[greenmg2003]

Well, I got flagged too, someone took over my account and spammed malware repositories on my account last month that I didn't notice. Then I need to remove all 30 repo, changed password, fix the security and sent the reinstatement.

It's been a week now and no response yet, man

[SurajSanap]

How GitHub Support Helped Me Resolve Account Flagging: A 5-Day Proces

October 13, 2024:
I noticed my GitHub account was flagged, preventing third-party app authorization.
I contacted GitHub Support, explaining the issue and requesting a review.

October 15, 2024:

GitHub Support replied, informing me that my account might have been compromised and restricted for security reasons.
They asked me to review my account for any unauthorized repositories or changes.

October 17, 2024:

After reviewing my account, I found suspicious repositories and integrations that I didn’t create.
I deleted the unauthorized repositories and uninstalled integrations like Choreo.dev and Vercel.
I notified GitHub Support of my actions and requested further guidance.

October 18, 2024:

GitHub Support confirmed they had cleared the restrictions on my account.
They forced a password reset and provided security tips to prevent future compromises.
I changed my password and enabled two-factor authentication (2FA) to secure my account.

Additional Advice:
I know many people on the internet have experienced delays of 2-3 weeks without a reply from GitHub Support. If you’re facing this, try to make one more ticket if possible. In the meantime, consider creating a new account and uploading your projects there to keep your resume links active.

[ScapeXYZ]

Where can I create a support ticket

[SurajSanap]

Where can I create a support ticket

Search on google. It's easy.

[cheesycod]

@SurajSanap I'm marked as spam too for no reason

[devaapriana]

Excuse me, sir. I'm sorry to disturb your time. I’m reaching out to ask for help regarding my GitHub account (codemysister), which was flagged for spam after being hacked on September 4, 2024. Here are the steps I have taken so far:

• Changed my GitHub password
• Enabled 2FA via SMS and authenticator
• Checked the security logs
• Removed spam repositories
• Submitted support ticket #2983252 on September 4, 2024, but have yet to receive a response from GitHub.

I would be very grateful if you could assist me.

Ticket: #2983252
Account: https://github.com/codemysister

[neupkishor]

Do this for faster response.
Ask someone to create a support ticket from their account (friends, family, coworker), and ask them that it's been so long that this ticket has not been replied. Explain the case. And ask them to look for it. After doing this, I got a response in about 2 days and my account was unflagged in about a week.

This might help.

[devaapriana]

okay, thank you for your advice and help, sir

[ashish07-07]

@neupkishor sir my account has been flagged , But i am unable to raise the ticket as i am giving correct phonenumber for sms verification which does not send the verificarion code so because of this i am not able to create a ticket . sir can u please help me .

[EstebanQW]

@ashish07-07 have same problem, are you fix it?

[s9anus98a]

please help my account "You are marked as spam, and therefore cannot authorize a third party application. "
i'm not spamming anything @devaapriana

[butchimau80]

My account is also marked as spam, please review it for me