diff --git a/ts/components/dialog/DeleteAccountModal.tsx b/ts/components/dialog/DeleteAccountModal.tsx
index ce7e42f77..4d5582a96 100644
--- a/ts/components/dialog/DeleteAccountModal.tsx
+++ b/ts/components/dialog/DeleteAccountModal.tsx
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ import { SessionWrapperModal } from '../SessionWrapperModal';
 import { Data } from '../../data/data';
 import { deleteAllLogs } from '../../node/logs';
 import { SessionRadioGroup } from '../basic/SessionRadioGroup';
+import { clearInbox } from '../../session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3ClearInbox';
+import { OpenGroupData } from '../../data/opengroups';
+import { getOpenGroupV2ConversationId } from '../../session/apis/open_group_api/utils/OpenGroupUtils';
+import { getOpenGroupManager } from '../../session/apis/open_group_api/opengroupV2/OpenGroupManagerV2';
 
 const deleteDbLocally = async () => {
   window?.log?.info('last message sent successfully. Deleting everything');
@@ -57,6 +61,44 @@ async function deleteEverythingAndNetworkData() {
     // DELETE EVERYTHING ON NETWORK, AND THEN STUFF LOCALLY STORED
     // a bit of duplicate code below, but it's easier to follow every case like that (helped with returns)
 
+    // send delete for all sogs message requests
+    // TODO extract function from within startPollingBouncy() to replace some of the code below.
+    // fetch all open group conversations
+    const allConvos = await OpenGroupData.getAllOpenGroupV2Conversations();
+    let allRoomInfosMap = OpenGroupData.getAllV2OpenGroupRoomsMap();
+    // this is time for some cleanup!
+    // We consider the conversations are our source-of-truth,
+    // so if there is a roomInfo without an associated convo, we remove it
+    if (allRoomInfosMap) {
+      await Promise.all(
+        [...allRoomInfosMap.values()].map(async infos => {
+          try {
+            const roomConvoId = getOpenGroupV2ConversationId(infos.serverUrl, infos.roomId);
+            if (!allConvos.get(roomConvoId)) {
+              // remove the roomInfos locally for this open group room
+              await OpenGroupData.removeV2OpenGroupRoom(roomConvoId);
+              getOpenGroupManager().removeRoomFromPolledRooms(infos);
+              // no need to remove it from the ConversationController, the convo is already not there
+            }
+          } catch (e) {
+            window?.log?.warn('cleanup roomInfos error', e);
+          }
+        })
+      );
+    }
+
+    allRoomInfosMap = OpenGroupData.getAllV2OpenGroupRoomsMap();
+    if (allRoomInfosMap) {
+      const allRoomInfos = Object.values(allRoomInfosMap);
+      // clear each inbox per sogs
+      for (let i = 0; i < allRoomInfos.length; i++) {
+        // TODO handle the response to confirm this works
+        // TODO CONTINUE
+        // TODO will need to test with a dummy account with some message requests and then if we restore from seed there should be no message requests.
+        await clearInbox(allRoomInfos[i]);
+      }
+    }
+
     // send deletion message to the network
     const potentiallyMaliciousSnodes = await forceNetworkDeletion();
     if (potentiallyMaliciousSnodes === null) {
diff --git a/ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3BatchPoll.ts b/ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3BatchPoll.ts
index e73feb65c..f326eab6c 100644
--- a/ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3BatchPoll.ts
+++ b/ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3BatchPoll.ts
@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ export type SubRequestPollInfoType = {
 
 export type SubRequestInboxType = {
   type: 'inbox';
+  inbox?: {
+    /**
+     * Deletes all of the user's received messages.
+     @returns a JSON object with one key "deleted" set to the number of deleted messages.
+     */
+    type: 'delete';
+  };
   inboxSince?: {
     id?: number;
   };
@@ -247,6 +254,14 @@ const makeBatchRequestPayload = (
       break;
 
     case 'inbox':
+      const isDelete = Boolean(options.inbox?.type === 'delete');
+      if (isDelete) {
+        return {
+          method: 'DELETE',
+          path: '/inbox',
+        };
+      }
+
       return {
         method: 'GET',
         path:
diff --git a/ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3ClearInbox.ts b/ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3ClearInbox.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..258481e82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ts/session/apis/open_group_api/sogsv3/sogsV3ClearInbox.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import AbortController from 'abort-controller';
+import { Data } from '../../../../data/data';
+import { OpenGroupRequestCommonType } from '../opengroupV2/ApiUtil';
+import { getOpenGroupV2ConversationId } from '../utils/OpenGroupUtils';
+import {
+  batchFirstSubIsSuccess,
+  batchGlobalIsSuccess,
+  OpenGroupBatchRow,
+  sogsBatchSend,
+} from './sogsV3BatchPoll';
+
+type OpenGroupClearInboxResponse = {
+  deleted: number;
+};
+
+export const clearInbox = async (roomInfos: OpenGroupRequestCommonType): Promise<boolean> => {
+  const converationId = getOpenGroupV2ConversationId(roomInfos.serverUrl, roomInfos.roomId);
+  const conversation = await Data.getConversationById(converationId);
+
+  if (!conversation) {
+    window.log.warn(`clear inbox Matching conversation not found in db`);
+    // we failed
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  const options: Array<OpenGroupBatchRow> = [
+    {
+      type: 'inbox',
+      inbox: {
+        type: 'delete',
+      },
+    },
+  ];
+
+  const result = await sogsBatchSend(
+    roomInfos.serverUrl,
+    new Set([roomInfos.roomId]),
+    new AbortController().signal,
+    options,
+    'batch'
+  );
+
+  if (!result) {
+    throw new Error('Could not clearInbox, res is invalid');
+  }
+
+  const rawMessage = (result.body && (result.body[0].body as OpenGroupClearInboxResponse)) || null;
+  if (!rawMessage) {
+    throw new Error('clearInbox parsing failed');
+  }
+
+  try {
+    if (batchGlobalIsSuccess(result) && batchFirstSubIsSuccess(result)) {
+      // we succeeded
+      return true;
+    } else {
+      // we failed
+      return false;
+    }
+  } catch (e) {
+    window?.log?.error("clearInbox Can't decode JSON body");
+  }
+
+  return false;
+};