Ok, you know the drill. When I got on today, I gotten a inbox in my notes saying "Congratulations" with a 100 emoji next to it, saying I won some BS that I never signed up for and claiming that it was "awarding" DA users for some type of nonsense. Then I saw that this same account made a comment to one of my journals saying: "Cool did you receive your news and updates in your inbox"
First off, no one does this. Ever.
Second, I never enter contests, sweepstakes, or any of those kind of nonsenses.
Third, the comments from other users help tell me if your a spam/scam.
If there was news and updates then we would have gotten them in notifications like we always do. Plus, this scam/spam account was only 3 months (a clear sign that they are likely spammers, bots and scammers) with pics that look like they were taken from other sites (thanks to google lens for helping identify pics).
So yeah, watch out for these kinds of bots/scams/spams.