Have you suddenly started getting spam in your notes?

3 days ago my note section was the most silent part of my deviantart subscription.

Then I started getting spam notes. It feels like I have been vandalized/violated. Don't get me wrong, I have had email forever promising me a large sum of money in Africa or a big fat check from some guy named Bill Gates. I get so many credit card applications at my house that I write cryptic messages on them with big sharpie markers and mail them back. You can control & stop email spam and make your regular junk mail at home entertaining without clicking a link that gets you a virus or trojan horse. You can't do this with spam here. DA feels like a group of friends and to have something pollute the water here is just depressing. I have seen this place grow. It IS my art community since I haven't found one in my part of the world. I dig art more than anything. I feel that we are all in this together and overall I don't feel a hierarchy here. I feel equal and amongst partners in a world drawn up by us. And now, some evil scum, has tarnished this place and my notes.

The usernames are being generated. I am getting it from names such as !tiffany122 and then !tiffany22. I realize these accounts have been removed and bravo for that.

I just wonder if it will stop and exactly how it all started. Is there a step that could be added in somewhere to stop this? What do you do to combat this?