Ask HN: Have you also started recently receiving Signal spam?

7 points by nanna ↗ HN
For the first time ever I've started receiving spam on Signal over the past couple of weeks. Not floods, but messages here and there which I report and block. Could this be to do with Signal's new username feature,[1] or could it just be that Signal has become mainstream enough that Spammers have invested in it?

Damn spam, Signal used to be a haven from it.

[1] https://www.signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

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I have had about 1 item of SPAM on Signal ever, and not recently. I have seen others mention it.
I've had a single catfishy-looking message request, I'm guessing it's because I set up a short username.