The original post: /r/privacy by /u/NotAgainHel15 on 2025-05-03 18:06:07.

Today I received messages from a company on Instagram who I had seen an advert from. I didn’t click on the ad, actually I removed it because it was lengthy and irrelevant. Then I received messages from them asking how they could help me. My account is private but they didn’t go into message requests, rather straight into my DMs. I’m a bit creeped out and when I search for more info all I can see is instructions for how to create these ad bots, not block them. Anyone else had this or knows how to prevent it as I really don’t like this?