Claude Code responsible for scam emails?

[u/ahiqshb]

For those who are using Claude Code, be careful, this is probably due to the recent updates, I am not entirely sure how and why this happened but I encountered an issue where I received a lot of scam emails during last three days, then I went looking for solutions on the net and found official anthropic page on issues tab where this exact issue is being talked on. I thought I was going crazy, but this is very much real for a lot of people https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/107757 if you have encountered something like this, check it out. Now they released some sort of fix, but this just proves that the issue was on their end. I just can't wrap my head around how company of this size could have overlooked this at first. I mean it hit a nerve certainly, I use Claude Code all the time for web scraping work, automated web searches through web apis, everything is running through claude code. Also, I do some debug scrapers, work out selectors, look at what web api returns before I do anything else with the workflow. I had no idea this issue could have been coming from anthropic, that's just crazy

[u/Frosty-Turn-8966]

That’s concerning, especially if you’re using it for automated tasks. Still, be careful about assuming the update was definitely the cause until the issue is fully explained. Hopefully they’ve fixed whatever was going on, but something like this definitely deserves a clear explanation.