Weird notification from Flickr

Has anyone else’s Flickr app prompted them to click on this weird notification? It said that they were temporarily suspending every account to weed out fake accounts and AI accounts. So all you had to do was verify through the link in the push notification.

It said to make up for the inconvenience, they were giving 3 months of their pro service for free. So after I checked out the link it’s now asking for card or PayPal info for the “free trial”. And I’m like, um no.

Is this just a ploy to get their users to sign but for the “free trial”, forget about the subscription, and in 3 months charge us for Flickr Pro? Will our accounts be actually suspended if we don’t provide money info? Cuz I’m not doing that.

 

It came from the app itself as a push notification, not an email. Which is why I find it so weird.

 

I’ll check like you suggested! I didn’t even know you could send and receive messages via Flickr. I only use it for posting photos here, so I haven’t learned the in and outs of Flickr.

It happened right after I uploaded new photos via the app. Like seconds after.

 

I checked my Flickr inbox, it’s empty. Checked the notifications, nothing mentions the weird message. I almost wish I had screenshotted it cuz it’s as if it didn’t happen.

 

Good to know! I decided to email Flickr about it. Since it came from their app I figured they should know about it. In case they have some sort of breech.

 

I don’t know much about Flickr specifically. But considering how many free trials I get offered for all the tech-y companies (like apple with their music) I figured it could be one of those kind of promotions. The way the message was worded was like just legit enough. But I since I don’t even want the pro account I was like no So glad I decided to ask around and google it. Cuz I didn’t even know you could receive messages from other people via Flickr. The message I got was masquerading as Flickr itself. It was the only notification from the Flickr app I ever got so I thought it really was from Flickr But I emailed the staff and they confirmed it was from another user. Thankfully they have been removed from the site. And now I’m gonna just disable the notifications lol

Originally I thought it was Flickr being scammy but it was a rando. I was most concerned about getting locked out of my account I feel like I learned about Flickr and their features though, so I suppose that is the silver lining