PSA: NEW SCAM ALERT
AO3 team will NEVER contact you via your fic’s comments section!!!!!!!!
if you get a comment from someone claiming to be from AO3 in any way, shape or form, IT IS A SCAM.
if you get a comment from someone claiming they work with AO3 and that your AO3 account has been compromised or restricted somehow and that you must contact xyz or open a link they give, IT IS A SCAM.
they want to hack your account and/or steal your credit card/personal information (because the link they want you to click on will require your login info and/or your other sensitive information!!!!)
*the same scam tactic can be seen on tumblr where these scammers claim to be someone from tumblr team too
DO. NOT. FALL. FOR. IT!!!!!!
here’s AO3’s official statement about it
here’s the post I made that covered other types of bots