Hey, folks!As some of you may already be aware, certain users are receiving private messages – ostensibly from moderators of large subreddits – in which they are told that they've won a gift card, a cash prize, or a robotic ferret. (I may have made that last one up.) Anyway, we wanted to take a moment to inform everyone of the following:If you receive a private message telling you that you've won something, it is a scam.There are a number of ways that illicit accounts operate on Reddit. More often than not, spammers pump up their karma scores until they're past a certain threshold, then either sell their accounts or start submitting links to malware-infested websites and shady retail outlets. (This brief guide will tell you how to spot them... and if that's too long for you, this tongue-in-cheek video will offer the same information.)More recently, though, we've seen this new breed of parasite making the rounds. They register usernames that look like they could be ...