# Do Watched Words function in PMs?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-watched-words-function-in-pms/306294
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** watched-words, personal-messages
**Created:** [April 28, 2024, 10:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-watched-words-function-in-pms/306294 "2024-04-28T22:08:50Z")
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### Author: ![SaraDev](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/saradev/32/335139_2.png) [@SaraDev](https://meta.discourse.org/u/SaraDev)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-watched-words-function-in-pms/306294/3 "2024-04-30T21:46:20Z")

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> [@abrambailey](#):
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> Is there a way to alert the admin to watched words in PMs?

As @ondrej mentioned, the “Flag” option will also flag PMs, which will send a notification to moderators on the site, so you could use that setting to alert staff about watched words in PMs.

> [@abrambailey](#):
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> I’m unfortunately experiencing an issue with one banned user who keeps signing up to the forum again with a new IP and PM’ing our users.

In addition to Watched Words, if you’re finding that a banned users keeps signing up the forum and sending PMs to users, you might find some of the ideas mentioned in [Tips for Preventing Spam](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-for-preventing-spam/264020) helpful.

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