Peloton Teams Spam Is Now Showing Up in the App

What to Do If You Get a Sex Solicitation Invite Through the Teams Feature

Peloton Teams Spam Is Now Showing Up in the App

A wave of Peloton Teams spam is landing in member notifications, and it is not subtle. On June 13, members opened their Peloton apps or hardware and found team invitations from unknown accounts with usernames like “alice67645” and team names soliciting sex and pointing to adult websites. It is the kind of content you would expect to find in an email spam folder, not on a fitness platform – especially this one.

The Peloton community subreddit r/OnePelotonRealSub surfaced the issue recently, with one member sharing a screenshot of a notification reading: “alice67645 invited you to join a team: local sex? here – [adult website].” The post drew more than 120 upvotes and nearly 60 comments, with members expressing a mix of amusement and frustration. One commenter noted the account’s username and team name appeared designed to look like a genuine peer invitation, which is exactly how this type of solicitation spam works on social platforms.

Several members of The Clip Out Helper Bee crew also received this most unwanted invitation.

This is not Peloton’s first encounter with bad actors using platform features to reach members. In a previous incident, spam bots created accounts with explicit profile photos and followed members en masse, prompting Peloton to issue a public response. The Teams feature, which launched in September 2024 and has since expanded to support communities of up to 50,000 members, has introduced a new surface area for this kind of abuse.

How Teams Spam Works

The Teams feature allows any Peloton member to create a team and invite others by searching their username. Because the feature sends a push notification directly to the invited member’s device, spam accounts can use it to put text and links in front of members without any prior connection or follow relationship. The notification appears in the same queue as legitimate platform activity, which means it can catch members off guard.

What Peloton Told Us

The Clip Out reached out to Peloton for guidance on this issue. Peloton’s response confirmed that members can block the user who sent the invitation, but did not provide a dedicated reporting pathway for Peloton Teams spam specifically. There is currently no in-app mechanism to report a team as spam distinct from blocking the account behind it.

Blocking removes the account from your experience, but it does not flag the behavior to Peloton for review or help the platform identify and remove the spam account more quickly and intuitively. There is, however, a pathway to accomplish this.

What to Do If You Get a Spam Team Invitation

If you receive a suspicious team invitation, here is what we recommend:

1. Screenshot it first. Before dismissing the notification or the invitation, take a screenshot. This gives you documentation to share with Peloton and helps them identify the account.
2. Block the account. Tap the inviting account’s username to open their profile, then use the options menu to block them. We previously covered Peloton’s member-blocking feature in detail.
3. Contact Peloton Customer Service – App Support. They told The Clip Out that this page is the place to find the most current communication methods. Use the link on this page to chat with Support.
4. Decline the invitation. Once you have documented and reported, you can safely decline the team invitation from the notification itself.

Peloton Teams Spam and the Wider Platform Picture

The Peloton Teams feature has been one of the platform’s more active development areas over the past year. Peloton has added photo posting, emoji reactions, commenting, and larger community sizes since the initial rollout. With that expanded social footprint comes a larger potential for misuse, and spam accounts tend to move toward platforms where engagement features create new delivery mechanisms.

Peloton has historically addressed spam waves when they are surfaced publicly and reported by members. The faster and more consistently members report accounts like the ones behind this Peloton Teams spam wave, the faster the platform can act. Taking the thirty seconds to screenshot and contact Peloton App Support is the most useful action any affected member can take right now.

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